MHFA2 - Hope Networks' Mental Health Education Project: Starting the Path to 1 in 15

Sunday, May 4, 2025

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET

Location: 102AB

In Fall 2023, Hope Network, one of Michigan's largest behavioral health nonprofits, was awarded a three-year Mental Health Awareness Training Grant from SAMHSA to implement the Hope Mental Health Education Project (MHEP) across Michigan. This is being accomplished by training over 5,000 individuals in several distressed communities in Youth, Adult and teen MHFA.

Key activities and strategies implemented will be highlighted including: Training plans, outreach strategies for higher education and public safety, providing support to a 15+ MHFA instructor network, key metrics, and lessons learned.

Learning Objectives:

Explore and discuss how to analyze and measure individuals referred to mental health (or related) services in the communities that participated in MHFA training.
Demonstrate how to measure improvement in knowledge, attitudes, and/or beliefs related to mental health promotion and identify how to engage a diverse Mental Health Advisory Board to achieve desired outcomes.
Demonstrate how to implement a 3-Year SAMHSA MHAT Grant with goal of training 3,450 individuals in MHFA as well as key lessons learned and successes during year one of implementation.

Presenter - MHFA Summit(s)

Kasie Pickart, MPH

Behavioral Health Grants Project Director
Hope Network
grand rapids, Michigan
Shelby Albright

Training and Outreach Coordinator
Hope Network
Big Rapids, Michigan

Moderator - MHFA Summit(s)

Pace Cooke Emmons, MA

Mental Health First Aid at Work National Trainer
Self
Lexington, Kentucky