Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance - PanCare of Florida, Inc. (PanCare) proposes to implement the Mental Health Awareness Training (MHAT) project in Bay County, Florida. The primary populations of focus for this application are youth ages 6 to 17 enrolled in BDS (26,000 students) and adults age 18 and older (148,284 adults) (BDS, 2021; Amer. Comm. Survey, Census, 2019). To reach youth, PanCare will implement Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training for school staff, faculty, students and parents engaged with Bay District Schools (BDS) and the BDS Police Force. All of the officers on the BDS Police Force serve in local schools. To reach adults, PanCare will implement adult MHFA training for PanCare providers and staff, other medical providers in the region and their staff and patients, and the general public. Primary strategies to be employed include training in youth and adult mental health awareness, identification of youth and adults with mental illness, and de-escalation techniques; development of a Crisis Intervention Team; strengthening of community referral pathways for individuals with the signs or symptoms of mental illness; and community education regarding mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) resources including development of an online resource directory.
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