Duration: 1 hour

MHW 101 reframes the conversation about mental health – teaching that we ALL have mental health; it’s not just about the presence or absence of an illness. The training will help participants understand mental health as an integral part of overall health, prevalence of mental illness, and risk & protective factors; and promote help-seeking behavior, recovery, and self-care.

Duration: 1 hour

MHW 101 in the Workplace offers a basic understanding of mental health and reframes the conversation about mental health – teaching that we ALL have mental health; it’s not just about the presence or absence of an illness. The training will help participants understand mental health as an integral part of overall health, prevalence of mental illness, and risk & protective factors; and promote in order to reduce stigma and to promote wellness and recovery in the workplace.

Duration: 30 minutes

Signs and Symptoms: Identify signs & symptoms of mental illness.

Organizational Wellness: Identify organization-wide strategies for creating a climate that is sensitive to mental health and wellness.

Resiliency: Understand the importance of building resiliency skills.

Practice What You Learned Activities: Scenarios, role-plays, and skill-building exercises to reinforce learned concepts.

Duration: 8 hours

Versions Available: Adult, Youth, Public Safety, Veterans, Higher Education, Older Adults

MHFA is an evidence-based public education program that introduces participants to risk factors and warning signs of mental illnesses, builds understanding of their impact, and overviews common supports. This 8-hour course uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to offer initial help in a mental health crisis and connect persons to the appropriate professional, peer, social, and self-help care. The program also teaches the common risk factors and warning signs of specific types of illnesses, like anxiety, depression, substance use, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.

Duration: 6 hours

Versions Available: Adult

This is the online version of MHFA. This virtual 6-hour course uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to offer initial help in a mental health crisis and connect persons to the appropriate professional, peer, social, and self-help care. The program also teaches the common risk factors and warning signs of specific types of illnesses, like anxiety, depression, substance use, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.

Duration: 3 hours

safeTALK prepares anyone over the age of 15 to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK trained helpers can recognize these invitations and connect them with life-saving intervention resources.

MHANYS CarePath™ Program assists individuals and their families or identified supporters in developing a comprehensive strategy called a CarePath™. This innovative program strengthens the overall health and well-being of individuals and their families’ transition from any type of treatment setting or families simply interested in achieving better overall health and a sense of well-being. The CarePath™ supports healthy reconnections amongst family, friends, and within the community, be it – job, school, or other associations.

Learn more about MHANYS CarePath™ Program here.

Duration: 1 hour

Learn the characteristics needed for a wellness mindset. A sense of well-being is the integration of body, mind and spirit; and the appreciation that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an impact on our health. This presentation provides a framework for how to create a ‘wellness mindset’ that will support the practice of continuous self-care.

Duration: 1 hour

Creating a culture of belonging supports those that do not feel a sense of belonging – be at their schools, places of employment, home or within their communities. Motivation is driven by the sense that we matter and our contributions add, and not subtract, to the world around us. A culture of belonging looks for ways we are similar rather than how we are different.

Duration: 1 hour

Participants will have an opportunity to explore self-care and wellness from a strengths-based perspective, including understanding stressors, building resiliency and self-compassion, and managing change.

Duration: 1 hour

To ensure the best possible health outcomes, all care — in all organizational settings — must address trauma in a safe and sensitive way. A trauma-informed approach can be implemented in any type of service setting or organization and is distinct from trauma-specific interventions.

Duration: 1 hour

This presentation will explore the expressions of grief and loss and why supporting the grieving process will ensure that grief is not categorized as a disease but an essential part of our wholeness as human beings and the precursor for healing. We will also look at when grief becomes complicated and a mental health concern.

Duration: 1 hour

For those of us under chronic stress or managing our mental health its helpful to be aware of emotions and attend to them quickly. Tending to them quickly ensures we will not carry them with us throughout the day, week, month and for some of us years. Taking a leadership role over our thoughts will ensure our emotions don’t have a life of their own.

Duration: 1 hour

Focusing on developing our compassion creates positive effects on both our brains and our immune systems. Studies of evolution show we are biologically designed to respond well to being cared for and treated kindly. The practice of compassion and self-compassion require being engaged and awake to our life