Friday, April 19, 2024
4/19/2024
Serving Children and Adults in Need (SCAN), Inc., is proposing to implement the Webb County Mental Health Awareness Training Project in Webb County, Texas, which has Laredo as its seat of government and is situated along the Texas-Mexico border. The population of focus consists of veterans, armed services members and their families, emergency first responders, educators and other school personnel, law enforcement, health professionals working with individuals who may be experiencing serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance, and other individuals. The project will train individuals to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental disorders; establish linkages with school- and/or community-based mental health agencies to refer individuals with the signs or symptoms of mental illness to appropriate services; train emergency services personnel, veterans, law enforcement, fire department personnel, and others to identify persons with a mental disorder and employ crisis de-escalation techniques; and educate individuals about resources that are available in the community for individuals with a mental disorder. The project’s goals are to: 1) Increase the capacity of emergency responders, health professionals, school personnel law enforcement, veterans, armed services members and their families, and others to recognize youth and adults experiencing serious mental illness and serious emotional disturbance in Webb County; 2) Develop community capacity to provide mental health awareness training and to coordinate resources for adults and youth identified with serious mental illness and serious emotional in order that they obtain appropriate care; 3) Foster the development of trauma-informed systems of care in order to ensure training participants understand the impact of trauma on the mental health of youth and adults experiencing serious mental illness and serious emotional disturbance; 4) Improve training participant skills by demonstrating increased knowledge post-trainings. 5) Deliver Mental Health First Aid training with high degree of fidelity while paying attention to the population’s cultural and linguistic needs; and 6) Collect quality data effectively and consistently to ensure best training outcomes, timely reporting and program improvement. SCAN has chosen Mental Health First Aid as the Evidence Based Practice. This EBP will allow SCAN to deliver a concise training that provides individuals with skills to help someone experiencing a mental health crisis. SCAN will train 750 unduplicated individuals annually (2,250 individuals over the project’s lifetime). SCAN will convene an Advisory Group composed of local stakeholders to develop a strategic plan to address the specific training needs of the community, develop a training plan, focus on how to best link individuals with SMI and SED to appropriate services, and to oversee the project’s approach to consultation services. In order to provide ongoing support, skill development and consultation, SCAN will schedule quarterly consultation calls and/or webinars for training attendees to help them appropriately link those individuals they identify with SMI or SED. SCAN will also offer training on SAMHSA’s Trauma Informed Approach to all participants.
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