MHFA12 - Breaking Down Barriers: Adapting and Addressing Challenges While Instructing a Course

Sunday, May 4, 2025

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET

Location: 105AB

This dynamic, interactive workshop offers practical strategies and innovative solutions for overcoming challenges in MHFA/YMHFA/tMHFA courses. Facilitators will share expertise in navigating space limitations and resource constraints, identifying tools and adaptable activities that ensure positive learning experiences while maintaining fidelity.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions, sharing brief examples of obstacles faced during trainings, whether they involve participant dynamics, course content delivery, or logistical hurdles, and explore effective solutions to address them. Come prepared to share stories of success and gain inspiration from others as we explore creative ways to enhance your MHFA instruction.

Learning Objectives:

Identify common training environment challenges and related adaptation strategies.
Describe how to create and utilize a versatile box of essential resources to ensure seamless facilitation in any training setting.
Outline techniques that contribute to delivering positive and effective learning experiences that maintain program fidelity.

Presenter - MHFA Summit(s)

Tracy Levine, MSW, LCSW

Executive Director
Naomi Ruth Cohen Institute for Mental Health Education at The Chicago School
Chicago, Illinois
GE

Gina Ehlert, MEd

President & Chief Learning Officer
GETrainingSolutions
Loomis, California

Moderator - MHFA Summit(s)

Richard Infranca, MHFA, CIT

Detective Retired
Specialty Training and Consulting, LLC dba: STAC Services, LLC
Brighton, Colorado