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Become a certified Youth Mental Health First Aider today — it’s free.
Youth Mental Health First Aid is an early intervention public education program that teaches adults how to:
In the United States, approximately 50 percent of the population will meet the criteria for a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Many of these disorders appear during adolescence. As Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, stated in the Office of the Surgeon General’s 2021 Advisory, “The challenges today’s generation of young people face are unprecedented and uniquely hard to navigate. And the effect these challenges have had on their mental health is devastating.”
In response to our nation’s youth mental health crisis, and in partnership with the Prebys Foundation’s Youth Mental Health Innovation & Scaling Initiative, Girl Scouts San Diego is offering Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training to adults in San Diego for free. This certification course (valued at $170) teaches adults how to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health or substance use challenges in youth. Like physical First Aid and CPR, Youth Mental Health First Aid helps you assist a young person experiencing a crisis until professional assistance is obtained or the crisis is resolved.
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