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Municipal officials are continuing their efforts to make the city stigma free when it comes to mental illnesses by creating a Stigma Free taskforce. 09/24/2015 Link to Source

A band of 65 Australian motorcyclists are visiting Oklahoma City on their first “Black Dog Ride” across the United States. 09/24/2015 Link to Source

he group, which has completed five previous tours in Australia, is partnering with Mental Health First Aid USA to raise mental health awareness and funds to train more veterans and first responders in Mental Health First Aid.

Hilda Marie’s worst nightmare was unfolding right before her eyes. Teetering at the edge of the platform was a woman poised to jump in front of an oncoming train. What would you do?   09/23/2015 Link to Source

For Hilda, there was no question. She turned to the skills she learned in the eight-hour Mental Health First Aid class she completed. She contacted the station manager to secure help and calmly talked to reassure the woman until help...

Mental health first aid — as laid out in a program designed by an Australian psychologist and his wife, a nurse — gained a foothold in the United States in 2008 and has made big strides since. 09/21/2015 Link to...

The Black Dog Riders had just finished the fourth leg of a 21-day ride that will take them from New York City to Los Angeles. The mission of the group is to raise awareness and funds for mental illness and...

As we find ourselves in National Suicide Prevention Month, it’s hard not to take this loss with a special kind of sadness – and even harder to wrap our minds around the bigger picture. 09/20/2015 Link to Source

The training session asked workers how they would respond to troubled people — a drug user, an abuse victim or someone with bipolar disorder — that they might encounter on the job. They weren’t doctors or therapists, and their employer, a...

The Mental Health First Aid program, which the Black Dog Riders are riding to support, is a way to ensure that each of us can be on the front line with our neighbors, co-workers, and friends to recognize when people...

The proceeds raised from this ride will go to Mental Health First Aid USA, providing scholarships for first responders and veterans to be trained in Mental Health First Aid, helping communities respond to mental health crises. Read more.

“Be Nice.” is a mental health awareness, anti-bullying and suicide prevention program that wants schools, workplaces and all of the West Michigan community to know that saving lives is as simple as just being nice. 09/18/2015 Link to Source