Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid can help you personally and professionally. Learn about how to respond to keep someone safe. Be more confident when interacting with a person with a behavioral health struggle or crisis.
QPR Instructor Training
QPR Suicide Prevention Instructor Training
Becoming a certified trainer of QPR’s industry-leading approach to suicide prevention is an excellent way for individuals and organizations to help empower their communities to effectively intervene on behalf of suicidal and in-crisis people. Basic QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) training helps all of us be prepared to talk with someone who is or maybe thinking about suicide. No formal prior behavioral health expertise necessary. Registration Required
A Conversation on Opioid Use & Stigma
JOIN THE CONVERSATION! A Community Workshop - 12:00-2:30PM or 5:30-8:00PM
Facilitation Leader Training available on Friday, October 11th. Help our community continue these important conversations and use these skills for your own professional development. The facilator training will be available online. Participation at Community Conversation event is a required prerequisite.
Narcan Emergency Response
Family Resource Center - 1 hour, Thursday September 26th at 5:00 PM
Learn more about how to recognize an overdose and respond with Naloxone (Narcan). Sadly, each year on Nantucket 4-10 deaths occur from drug overdose. Overdose deaths occur from licit and illicit drugs, with first time users and everyday users, to children, to seniors, to people of all races, incomes, jobs, and of any social status. How can you help? Learn how this basic harm reduction strategy can save lives. Attend this FREE one hour training session to receive a complimentary Naloxone (Narcan) Kit, learn about emergency response, and better understand overdose risk.
“Resilience After Loss” Dr. Maria Sirois
Life is challenging, capricious, and agonizing. It is also wondrous, beautiful, and beneficent. Working (and living) within these two realities requires us to develop skills of resilience and the ability to rise while under stress. This presentation provides insight into principles and practices that increase resilience on the fly such as: reframing stress into opportunity, activating a growth mindset, leveraging character strengths, and heightening a grounded optimism.
Register Here - appreciated but not required