Lawrence County Coalition offers Mental Health Awareness Trainings that exist to educate, equip, and foster empathy surrounding the premise that there is always help, and hope.

A.I.D

A.I.D. (Awareness, Interaction, Direction) trainings are delivered in 60- or 90-minute formats. The goal of the training is to “increase your confidence in recognizing and approaching someone in distress.” During the training, individuals are introduced to key terminology and concepts related to mental health and mental health stigma, as well as introduced to the A.I.D. action plan. The training allows individuals to interact with the material and practice the action plan through practice scenarios.

QPR for Suicide Prevention

QPR is a one-hour suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

This one hour training can be conducted:

• in the workplace
• the community setting
• in the home for a group of individuals interested in receiving the training.

A group of 5-25 participants would be ideal for the training.

MHFA

Mental Health First Aid is a more in depth training that can be taught in one day, or spread out for several sessions. It is an evidence-based certifiable early intervention course.

This course teaches you how to assist and support others who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge and/or crisis.   A group of 8-25 participants would be ideal for the training. 

LCC is equipped to offer all versions of MHFA (Mental Health First Aid):

• MHFA: Adults who work with adults
• YMHFA: Adults who work with youth
• tMHFA: Teens who work/live alongside other teens

KEVN featured this tMHFA training as a key story discussing the successful impact we have made in certifying over 700 students in 4 years at Spearfish High School.