Mental Health Literacy for Students, Families, and School Staff
Date and Time:
Thur., December 8, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Virtual Event
A Train-the-Trainer Opportunity

This webinar will provide school staff with a guide to help them improve mental health literacy among students, educators, and their peers.

Our roadmap focuses on:
  1. Understanding how to foster and maintain mental health
  2. Understanding mental health challenges and their treatments
  3. Decreasing stigma
  4. Helping individuals and families access recovery-oriented care and resources
Meet Our Speaker
School Mental Health Initiative
New England MHTTC
Martha is a faculty member at the Program for Recovery and Community Health in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry

Trained as a secondary English teacher, and with a PhD in Public Health, she has extensive experience in population health and epidemiology; qualitative and mixed methods research design, analysis, and evaluation; and community and clinical intervention implementation.

Our Take HEART Ambassador Program is a four session training series designed to create a school community that works together to reduce and respond compassionately to trauma, including strategies for increasing stakeholder involvement and disseminating public health and mental health literacy campaigns and materials.

Learn more about our series and register for one or all sessions!

Take the lead in bringing system-wide change strategies to your learning community.
Participants who complete our sessions have the opportunity to:

  • Earn 1 hour of CE credit
  • Earn an advocacy-specific micro-credential as a Take HEART Ambassador
  • Apply for funding to support on-the-ground efforts that promote mental health and well being of everyone in your school community
  • Connect with experts
  • Build community with educators, school staff, and behavioral health professionals
The New England MHTTC is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and is part of the broader Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network.
STAY CONNECTED
Our School Mental Health Initiative develops and disseminates evidence-based resources to enhance school culture and prepare the school mental health workforce to extend trauma-skilled practices.

Our efforts are designed to help schools cultivate compassionate school communities that buffer against the negative effects of trauma, build resilience for all students, and provide stress-relief and enhanced well-being for teachers and other school personnel, as well as students.