Youth Mental Health
Through a grant from the Bloomingdale Township Mental Health Board we are partnering with the community
to provide mental health training and youth community events.
Youth Mental Health Training
for Trusted Adults*
*Trusted adults provide the essential function of helping our youth to navigate challenges, be developed, & thrive. This includes Parents & Grandparents; Youth Group Leaders; Teachers & School Staff; Coaches & Mentors
Next YMHFA training date is Saturday, October 26 (8:30am-3:30pm) at the Hope Center (260 Glen Ellyn Road, Bloomingdale).
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a nationally recognized training that teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among adolescents ages 12-18. Learners will complete a two-hour self-paced online course (before training date), and then participate in an in-person instructor-led training, plus enjoy a catered lunch onsite with other advocates of youth in our community. Participants who complete the training receive a YMHFA certificate.
Individuals trained in the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course:
- Increase their knowledge of signs, symptoms and risk factors of mental health and substance use challenges.
- Can identify multiple types of professional and self-help resources for individuals with a mental health or substance use challenge.
- Show reduced stigma and increased empathy toward individuals with mental health challenges.
- Increase their confidence and likelihood to help an individual in distress.
- Use the skills and information they learn in MHFA to manage their own mental wellbeing.
The cost of this event is being covered by the Bloomingdale Township Mental Health grant. Attendees should be supporting at least one student who is a resident in Bloomingdale Township.
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It is easy to say it is not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider these people my heroes.”
(Fred Rogers, 1994)