Education

The Promotion Education Program is a United Way funded program that strives to increase community understanding of mental health issues and to promote healthier lifestyles.

 

Public Education

Presentations and workshops are available for any audience on a wide range of mental health topics including stress management, communication, self-esteem, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills training, and Mental Health Works, a series of workshops designed to help workplaces manage employees with mental health concerns.

 

Public forums are held several times throughout the year on a variety of topics.  These events feature diverse speakers, including physicians, people with mental illness, and motivational speakers, and are open to everyone.

 

Pamphlets, books, videos, and information packages are available on a number of mental health topics.

 

The Promotion & Education Program staff writes a newspaper column that appears every Monday on the Healthy Living page of the Chatham Daily News.  The column discusses a broad range of mental health topics, promotes upcoming events, and offers strategies for achieving good mental health.

 

Mental Health Works

This series of six workshops was specifically designed to help organizations respond more effectively to the challenge of mental health concerns in the workplace.

 

The workshops range from a 1-2 hours overview of the issues of senior management staff to a full 7 hour workshop for managers, supervisors and HR staff.  Depression and anxiety are the leading causes of workplace absences and cost employers millions of dollars annually.  Mental Health Works can open discussions about mental health issues, help all employees examine and control their reponses to workplace stressors and facilitate effective, successful return to work strategies for employees who have been away fromw ork because of a mental health problem.

 

ASIST

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training is the most widely used suicide intervention strategy in the world.  It is a Canadian model, developed in Clagary, Alberta and is a first aid response to suicide intervention which can be used by health professionals and the general public alike.  Workshops are held 2-3 times a year and can accommodate 20 individuals.  Learn ASIST and help make Chatham-Kent a suicide safe community.

 

Fee structures apply to ASIST and Mental Health Works.