Wednesday, May 21, 2025
5/21/2025
Porter County Mental Health Awareness Training Project - Porter County Substance Abuse Council will partner with Porter-Starke Services (MHA) and 22 other community service agencies to train individuals in Mental Health First Aid. The Mental Health Awareness Training project will train a minimum of 300 each year of the three-year project period for a minimum total of 900 or 51% of those committed to participate in MHAT sponsored trainings. Year 1 will train approximately 62 EMS & fire, 60 MHA’s, 115 law enforcement, 60 school faculty and staff, and 3 veterans services representatives. MHFA is proven effective at: • Growing trainee knowledge of signs, symptoms and risk factors of mental illnesses and addictions. • Identification of multiple types of professional and self-help resources for individuals with a mental illness or addiction. • Increasing trainee confidence in and likelihood to help an individual in distress. • Showing increased mental wellness among trainees themselves. Studies also show that MHFA reduces the social distance created by negative attitudes and perceptions of individuals with mental illnesses. The goal of the PCSAC MHAT Project is to increase the number of Porter County residents receiving treatment for serious mental illness (SMI) and/or serious emotional disturbance (SEM) from the baseline of 37.2% to 55.8% (50% net increase) over the three-year project period. To accomplish this goal the project will work toward the following primary objectives: • Objective 1: Increase the number of certified Mental Health First Aid trainers from the current number (2) by 100% to 4 by September 29, 2019. • Objective 2: Increase the number of residents trained to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental disorders from the current number to be established by 50% by September 29, 2019. • Objective 3: Increase the number of referrals to mental health services by 100% from the baseline to be established within the first 4 months of the project period by September 29, 2021. • Objective 4: Increase the number of linkages to mental health resources by 100% from the baseline to be established within the first 4 months of the project period by September 29, 2021.
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