Counseling and Wellness Services is pleased to share notice of a virtual training session to be offered by the Mental Health Association of New York State (MHANYS) on Thursday, Dec. 10 from 1 to 2 p.m.
Mental Health and Wellness 101 is offered free of charge to any interested person who works with and in support of the community, whether your role is as a licensed clinical provider or a school bus driver, according to Joelle Monaco, MHANYS’s director of outreach and business engagement.
“The one-hour course aims to re-frame the conversation about mental health – teaching that we ALL have mental health. It’s not just about the presence or absence of an illness,” Monaco said. “The training will help participants to understand mental health as an integral part of overall health, as well as to recognize risk and protective factors, and to promote help-seeking behavior, recovery, and self-care.”
Training goals:
- Increase basic knowledge of mental health to help reduce stigma.
- Understand mental health as a continuum of wellness that defines us every day — it is illness, recovery, and all of the space in between.
- Promote wellness, treatment-seeking behavior, recovery, and self-care.
“Consider this: the median time between the onset of mental illness (when symptoms first appear) and when an individual gets appropriate treatment is 10 years. During that time, a person likely experiences periods of increased symptoms and periods of wellness. Mental Health and recovery are dependent on an individual’s ability to recognize and manage where he/she is each day on the continuum between wellness and illness, and take care accordingly, an important piece to quality of life,” Monaco said.
Anyone interested in the training may click here for more information and to register.
Thank you,
Larry Ellis
Interim Director
Counseling and Wellness Services
Published: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:10:53 +0000 by l.ellis