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HERC EVENT: Mental Health First Aid Training January 7 & 8, 2026

Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance-use issues. Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. Topics covered include depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance use.

 (MHFA) is an evidence-based training created by the designed to provide participants with the skills to identify, destigmatize, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorder, enabling those trained to offer immediate, concrete support.

Training will be on January 7 and January 8, 2026 from 8 a.m. to noon in Blair Hall Room 2165. You must attend both days to receive certification. 

If interested, individuals must register using the link below. For any questions, please reach out to HERC staff at 217-581-7786 or herc@eiu.edu

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