Mental Health First Aid

MHFA9 - Launching teen MHFA — Implementation Success Stories

Sunday, April 10, 2022

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Location: Gaylord National, Baltimore 3-5

Presenter - MHFA Summit(s)

Kimberly A. Bodholdt

Social-Emotional-Behavioral Health Consultant
Prairie Lakes AEA
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Morgan Lipe, MA

Student Services Specialist
Lake Washington School District
Shoreline, Washington

Staff Moderator - MHFA Summit(s)

Karen Girgis, MA

Product Manager
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Washington, District of Columbia

Slides Handouts

teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA) has launched in the United States and is available to all schools, youth-serving organizations and community sites! You’ll hear from a state agency that partnered with schools to deliver tMHFA and a school district that is using its staff to implement the program. Learn tactics for engaging school administrators and staff to receive buy-in, best practices for implementing tMHFA and the impact tMHFA has had on their communities. Leave with clear steps to bring tMHFA to your community!

Learning Objectives:

Describe two strategies for implementing tMHFA.
Explain the necessary steps for becoming a tMHFA site.
Identify how tMHFA positively impacted each site.