MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
New Mexico's Statewide Mental Health
Anti-Stigma and Awareness Campaign
FEDERATION OF FAMILIES CONFERENCE
November 15, 2013
SUZANNE L PEARLMAN
Social Marketing & Technical Assistance Manager,
NMSOC Grant
Children, Youth & Families Department
Office of Community and Behavioral Health Programs
DAPHNE ROOD-HOPKINS
Principle Investigator, NMSOC Grant
Children, Youth & Families Department
Office of Community and Behavioral Health Programs
ERICA PADILLA
Statewide Youth Coordinator, NMSOC Grant
Children, Youth & Families Department
Office of Community and Behavioral Health Programs
MONICA MIURA
Statewide Family Coordinator
NMSOC Grant
Statewide Family Organization – Families ASAP
BRYAN V GIBB
Director of Public Education,
National Council for Behavioral Health
National Trainer and Spokesperson,
Mental Health First Aid USA
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
ADULT CURRICULUM
An 8‐hour training course designed to:
Give members of the public key skills to help someone who is developing
a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis.
Just as CPR training helps a layperson without medical training assist an
individual following a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid training
helps a layperson assist someone experiencing a mental health crisis.
Mental Health First Aid provides trainees with:
Knowledge of the potential risk factors and warning signs for a range of
mental health problems, including: depression, anxiety/trauma,
psychosis and psychotic disorders, eating disorders, substance use
disorders, and self‐injury
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
PUBLIC SAFETY CURRICULUM
The 8 hour Public Safety Mental Health First Aid version is designed to:
Provide those in the public safety and law enforcement sector with information
about the signs and symptoms of mental illnesses and substance use
disorders and how to deescalate crisis and refer individuals to help.
An awareness of the particular needs of the mentally ill can help officers better
serve the public (7% of contact involves the mentally ill), work more
efficiently, and increase officer safety.
Did you know?
The largest psychiatric facility isn’t a hospital, it’s a prison. Rikers Island, NY,
holds 3,000 inmates struggling with mental illness at any given point.
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
YOUTH CURRICULUM
Youth Mental Health First Aid is a 8‐hour training course designed to:
Build an understanding of the importance of early intervention, and teach
individuals how to help an adolescent in crisis or experiencing a mental health
challenge.
Mental Health First Aid uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to
assess a mental health crisis; select interventions and provide initial help; and
connect young people to professional, peer, social, and self-help care.
Mental Health First Aid provides trainees with:
Knowledge of potential risk factors and warning signs of a variety of mental
health challenges common among adolescents including: anxiety, depression,
psychosis, eating disorders, AD/HD, disruptive behavior disorders, and
substance use disorder.
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
YOUTH CURRICULUM
The Youth Mental Health First Aid curriculum is primarily focused on information
participants can use to help adolescents and transition-age youth, ages 12-21.
The course is designed for adults who regularly interact with adolescents, but is
being tested for appropriateness within older adolescent groups (16 and older)
so as to encourage youth peer-to-peer interaction.
The core Mental Health First Aid course has been successfully offered to 50,000+
people across the USA, including hospital staff, employers and business leaders,
faith communities, law enforcement, and the general public.
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
ALL CURRICULUMS
Participants do not learn to diagnose, nor how to provide any therapy or counseling –
rather, participants learn to support someone developing signs and symptoms of a
mental illness or in an emotional crisis by applying a core five-step action plan:
 Assess for risk of suicide or harm
 Listen non-judgmentally
 Give reassurance and information
 Encourage appropriate professional help
 Encourage self-help and other support strategies
The five‐step action plan encompasses the skills, resources and knowledge to
assess the situation, to select and implement appropriate interventions, and
to help the individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional care
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
From the National Council for Behavioral Health…
The evidence behind Mental Health First Aid demonstrates that it makes people;
– feel more comfortable managing a crisis situation
– builds mental health literacy - helping the public identify, understand and
respond to signs of mental illness
Specifically, studies found that those who trained in Mental Health First Aid
have;
– greater confidence in providing help to others
– greater likelihood of advising people to seek professional help
– improved concordance with health professionals about treatments
– decreased stigmatizing attitudes
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
Program Milestones
• Created in Australia in 2001
(University of Melbourne)
• Currently in 19 countries
• Piloted in the U.S. in 2008 (Brought to NM in 2010)
• Youth program Pilot in 2012 (Brought to NM in 2013)
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Where it Helps…
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Mental Health First Aid Curricula
www.TheNationalCouncil.org
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Standard Adult
Version
Youth Version
Spanish Language
Version
Supplemental
Modules:
Rural; Veterans;
Public Safety; Higher
Education; Faith
Based; Older Adults
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Over 130,000 First Aiders in the US
Trained by more than 3,975 Instructors
ALGEE-OMETER
AK
975 (21)
WA
3,107 (69)
MT
237 (5)
ID
440 (11)
1,165 (26)
CA
UT
627 (28)
15,944
(520)
IA
NE
NV
215 (4)
494 (14)
6,424 (92)
CO
6,979 (187)
KS
4,517 (100)
AZ
4,134 (90)
PERCENTAGE OF
POPULATION TRAINED
WI
372
(9)
46 (3)
OK
NM
1,436 (26)
3,255 (69)
MO
526
(14)
TX
LA
4,988
(205)
158
(4)
Less than 0.01%
143
(4)
2,377 (69)
4,444
(92)
PA
OH
IN
521
(37)
KY
5,520 (187)
973
(26) WV
0 (1)
MS
878
(76)
826
NJ
VA
2,215 (62)
NC
MD
3,817 (267)
DC
898 (49)
SC
AL
GA
681
(10)
2,485
(85)
144 (5)
FL
GUAM
37 (0)
PR
148 (2)
HI
5 (1)
CT
1,800 (51)
DE
1,991 (40)
(24)
RI
315 (7)
MA
887 (29)
701 (17)
389 (13)
TN
32 (1)
1,297
(80)
No data
Reported through August 2013
6,575
(133)
AR
0.04%-0.99%
0.01%-0.024%
IL
NY
MI
7,934
(312)
0.1% or more
0.025%-0.039%
ME
NH
1,839
(24)
SD
WY
233 (37)
MN
340 (3)
OR
1,587 (28)
VT
ND
65 (4)
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
Audiences Trained Nationally
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From SAMHSA…
• 50% of all mental health disorders begin by age 14.
• In any given year, only 20% of children with mental health disorders are
identified and receive mental health services.
• Mental health disorders in children and adolescents are real and can be
effectively treated, especially when identified and treated early.
• Early treatment enables children and adolescents to succeed in school, to
develop socially and to fully experience the developmental opportunities of
childhood.
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
From NM’s Statewide Youth Risk & Resiliency Survey 2011 High School Data…
• 29.1% felt persistent sadness or hopelessness.
• 8.6% reported a recent suicide attempt.
From the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) NM…
Mental Illness Is Common
• Of New Mexico’s approximately 2 million residents, about 22,000 children live
with serious mental health conditions.
Untreated Mental Illness has Deadly and Costly Consequences
• In 2006, 352 New Mexicans died by suicide. Suicide is almost always the
result of untreated or under-treated mental illness.
• During the 2006-07 school year, approximately 40 percent of New Mexico
students aged 14 and older living with serious mental health conditions who
receive special education services dropped out of high school
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
Statewide Task Force
• Developed a Mental Health First Aid Task Force in May of 2012
– Task Force developed to support many collaborating
agency/departments/groups priorities including:
• training/development of local crisis systems
• training recommendations of House Joint Memorial 17 and House Joint
Memorial 45 (both calling for more training and education toward mental
health awareness and stigma reduction)
• better tracking/gathering data
• developing training opportunities for future sustainability
• February 1, 2013 launched our first ever NM statewide crisis line:
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Statewide Task Force
• Task Force Outcomes
• Coordination of efforts:
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Email distribution list to NM Instructors
Website with resources
Instructor Trainings
Annual Instructor’s Summit
» Data, Population Focus, Resources, Support
• HJM 17 Support – 10 new Instructors in County Detention Facilities
• State Department Involvement and Goal Setting
– Children, Youth and Families Department, Human Services Department, Department of
Health, Department of Corrections, Indian Affairs Department, Public Education
Department.
• Development of a New Mexico ‘Mental Health Training Matrix’
• Crisis Systems of Care Community Trainings
• Incorporation of Statewide Crisis Line, System Services and Partners –
locally and statewide into all MHFA trainings
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Trained to date:
• Total # of MHFAers certified in New Mexico, to date: 3,255 (as of July 2013)
• Total # MHFAers certified July 31, 2012-July 31, 2013 in NM: 684
• Total # MHFAers certified nationwide to date: 130,000
Resources:
• Currently New Mexico has 70 Instructors
• 27 can offer the Youth Curriculum
• 39 can offer the Public Safety Curriculum
CEU’s:
• 8 hour course: 8 CEU’s through UNM
To learn more about Mental Health First Aid: www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
CYFD IMPLEMENTATION
Plans for Children, Youth & Families Department (CYFD) Trainings:
• CYFD Cabinet Secretary and Executive Staff hosted a MHFA training in April
2013
• Being reviewed for inclusion in Core Competency trainings for all new CYFD
staff
• Being offered as a part of the CYFD training curriculum to staff
• CYFD Staff Trained to date: 65
• CYFD staff Instructors: 6
• Partnership with New Mexico Legislature
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
YOUTH IMPLEMENTATION
Plans for Youth Trainings:
• Children Youth and Families Department, Youth in Transition Staff - Youth
who are aging our of Foster care have a Transition Worker tasked with
providing youth with life skills trainings and support. These workers will
receive this training to better support youth during this time of transition.
• Leaders Uniting Voices Youth Advocate of NM. Youth from ages 16-23 years
old are involved in this advocacy group for foster youth. These youth will be
trained. One youth from this group is currently a MHFA trainer in the Adult,
Youth and Public Safety Curriculums.
• Systems of Care Youth Coordinators, talks with supporting local youth to
advocate for Behavioral Health and Mental Health Services have been trained
to better support the youth in local communities.
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
FAMILY IMPLEMENTATION
Plans for Family Trainings:
• Entire Staff of New Mexico’s Statewide Family Organization (Families ASAP)
have received MHFA training: Statewide Family Coordinator, Local Family
Coordinators, Local Youth Coordinators, Family Advocates, Certified Peer
Specialist/Intake Specialist.
• Mental Health First Aid Trainings as a CEU course for our Certified Family
Specialist (Parent Support Providers) – Proposed Required CEU course for all
recertification.
• Side by side training for families, community members and professionals in
our 2 grant sites; professionals will include Juvenile Justice, Protective
Services, Early Childhood/NM Family Infant Toddler Program, educators, and
behavioral health partners.
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
TRIBAL PARTNERS
MHFA and the Tribes in New Mexico:
• Currently 6 Tribes involved with MHFA and the Statewide Task Force
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Santa Clara Pueblo (2 Instructors)
San Felipe Pueblo (2 Instructors)
Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
Tesuque Pueblo
Mescalero Nation (1 Instructor)
Navajo Nation (5 Instructors)
• Planned Track for the 2013 Instructor’s Summit (December 2013)
• Native America Trainers Statewide: 11
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
THE NM IMPACT
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
QUESTIONS???
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org
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