Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
The purpose of the proposed project is to expand and strengthen the “safety net” for those at risk for mental health concerns by teaching how to effectively intervene and/or de-escalate a mental health related crisis. Utilizing three evidence-based trainings, faculty, staff, and students at LaGuardia Community College will learn how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis, including suicide. The three evidence-based trainings to be used as the project's main strategy of teaching mental health distress and crisis intervention are: Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), QPR (Question. Persuade. Refer.), and CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training. Trainees will include faculty, staff, and students at LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC) with a special focus on high-risk populations, including LGBTQIA students, students with disabilities, international and culturally diverse students, African-American students, and student veterans. The overall goals of the LaGuardia Mental Health Literacy & Crisis Intervention Project are to increase awareness of mental health, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention in the LAGCC and outside community through evidence-based practice trainings of faculty, staff, and students; decrease stigma among high-risk and non-English speaking populations on campus; train faculty and key staff, including Wellness Counselors and LAGCC public safety in CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training; connect with on- and off-campus resources that can assist in providing specialized services and resources to students, including clinical support and accommodations; and increase regional mental health services and capacity and thus reduce wait times and strengthen regional collaboration and cooperation. Measurable objectives include training 500 key faculty and staff (100 per year), such as Wellness Center Counselors, Human Services faculty, and public safety, and 500 students (100 per year) in evidence- based, best-practice trainings, including MHFA, QPR, and CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training over the lifetime of the project; promoting mental health awareness and accessibility for students and to increase help- seeking behavior among higher-risk and underutilizing student groups by reaching at least 1,000 students through informational materials, a large-scale web survey, and the help of key on-campus partners; and collaborating with on- and off-campus resources and facilities that can aid in assisting students with clinical support and additional resources that may not be available within the Wellness Center, including the Office for Students with Disabilities and the Student Veteran Resource Center on-campus and the Northwell Behavioral College Partnership program, Mount Sinai SAVI program, Safe Horizon, and the Floating Hospital. We will implement a framework wherein at-risk students are identified and quickly referred to the services they need when mental health challenges become unmanageable.
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