Teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA) is an evidence-based curriculum from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing that teaches teens in grades 9-12 how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges in their friends and peers. The training gives teens the skills they need to have supportive conversations with their friends and emphasizes the importance of getting help from a responsible and trusted adult. The course consists of six 45 minute lessons which are taught in the school classroom by a 2B CONTINUED certified tMHFA instructor.
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tMHFA Curriculum Outline
1. Mental health in general, what mental health challenges are and how common they are in teens.
2. Impact of mental health challenges on teens, how people with mental health challenges can get better, professionals who can help.
3. Helping a friend who is in crisis because they are suicidal, introducing the tMHFA Action Plan (Look, Ask, Listen, Help Your Friend) and learning how it can be used in a crisis situation. A video shows a teen helping a friend who is experiencing suicidal thoughts.
4. Helping a friend who is experiencing another type of crisis, such as threatening violence or harm to others, engaging in non-suicidal self-injury or experiencing a traumatic event such as bullying, abuse or assault. Practice using the tMHFA Action Plan (Look, Ask, Listen, Help Your Friend) in these types of crisis situations.
5. Helping a friend who may be in crisis due to substance use and helping a friend who’s developing a mental health challenge.
6. Recovery and resilience.
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