Mental Health First Aid is an international, evidence-based program that teaches people to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges. 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 substance use-related concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. If interested in taking this course, please contact Sarah Grady (sarah.grady@drake.edu) or Christine Urish (christine.urish@drake.edu). We’ll be offering a MHFA course on Thursday, June 2.

— Renée Cramer, Deputy Provost