MHFA4 - Empower and Expand: Leveraging Champions for MHFA Program Growth

Sunday, May 4, 2025

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET

Location: 103B

Reaching new audiences calls for champions. Knowing how to find champions and what to do with them allows for programs to expand beyond coordinator trained efforts into area-wide implementation. This session will discuss finding, recruiting and retaining champions to create opportunities to reach new sectors, gather new stakeholders, and expand existing efforts.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will explore the types of champions (Opportunity, Training, Partner, Expansion) and how each type creates opportunity to reach and expand into new and existing sectors.
Participants will recognize where to find the types of champions, the incentives of partnership for champions, and the Mutually beneficial partnership with champions.
Participants will evaluate the effort and time of each type of champion, and the needs of retention.
Participants will discuss strategies for finding and retaining a balance of all types of champions.
Participants will analyze their own communities to identify champions of all types and strategize on how to best engage them to their cause.

Presenter - MHFA Summit(s)

Lisa Harper, MBA

Director of OK Community Initiatives
DCCCA/MHFA OK
Edmond, Oklahoma
Taylor J. Shelton, M.Ed.

Prevention Program Manager
DCCCA, Inc.- Mental Health First Aid Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

Moderator - MHFA Summit(s)

LR

Liz Reardon, MPH

National Trainer
Mental Health First Aid Mental Health First Aid Mental Health FDirst Aid
Saint Albans Bay, Vermont