Sertoma Centre, Inc., a licensed Behavioral Health Provider for individuals 18 and over, is proposing to operate a Community Mental Health First Aid Training Program (NITT AWAREC) to equip community members, religious leaders, first responders and other professionals to recognize the signs and symptoms of a variety of mental health disorders in transition-aged youth 16 to 24 years of age in Bloom Township, Cook County Illinois. There are 12,500 transition-aged youth in the area and estimate that 2,500 are at risk. High poverty, violent crime, dropout rates, race, and other risk factors point to the need for intervention. Project objectives are: train 3,000 members of the identified community that interact with transition-aged youth in MHFA each year: Year One-600; Year Two-1,200; Year Three-1,200; each year of training will address at least one of the identified groups; trainees will approximately represent the identified diversity of the community; post-training survey will show increased knowledge in basic mental health literacy; post-training survey will show maintenance of increased knowledge in basic mental health literacy; provide resource and referral information packet to every training group; track number of referrals made to behavioral health services; track number of youth served by collaborative behavioral health providers quarterly; hold quarterly follow-up depression and/or anxiety screenings annually; include identified referrals and resources in the south Cook County area; provide one additional training offered by the Community Education Program to 50% of first aiders trained in MHFA; and each training session will lead to at least one referral for MHFA training.