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A First Aider for Everyone.

 

Since the National Council for Mental Wellbeing brought Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) to America in 2008, our Instructors have trained over 4 million First Aiders from all 50 states and U.S. territories. But that’s just the beginning!

We have a goal to train one out of every 15 people in America in MHFA, ensuring that everyone has a close friend they can turn to when experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge.

Find a course to learn how you can support the people in your life!

Check out the dashboard below to see how many First Aiders are identifying, understanding and responding to mental health or substance use challenges near you.*

*The below data does not include teen or MHFA At Work First Aiders.

Instructors are the face of MHFA in their communities. They have done tremendous work training more than 4 million Mental Health First Aiders across the nation!

Check out the interactive dashboard below to see where our Instructors are teaching.

Become an Instructor and help us reach our goal to train one out of every 15 people in America in MHFA.

  • Mental Health First Aid training has taught the officer to ask his charges, “What happened?” instead of, “What’s wrong with you?”” –Officer Orlando Singleton
  • So many people are out there wishing for something better, hoping that help will show up. That’s what Mental Health First Aid is – it is help to get people connected to care and ultimately to get them to a better place.” –Tousha Paxton-Barnes, U.S. Army Veteran
  • I wish that every corrections officer could receive Mental Health First Aid training. I believe that our corrections system would be better because of it – the inmates would benefit, the officers would benefit and ultimately our communities would benefit.” –Lt. Virgil Meyer, Lieutenant, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
  • As adults, we sometimes forget how hard it was being an adolescent. When we see a kid who is just miserable at school, we might think they choose to be that way – or that it’s just part of adolescence. But in fact, they might be in a mental health crisis, one they certainly did not choose and do not want. When a teacher says “how can I be helpful,” that is a powerful question. ” –Alyssa Fruchtenicht, School-Based Mental Health Counselor
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