{"id":356421,"date":"2021-11-24T06:05:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=356421"},"modified":"2021-11-24T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:05:50","slug":"cgc-certifies-nine-adults-in-mental-health-first-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cgc-certifies-nine-adults-in-mental-health-first-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"CGC certifies nine adults in Mental Health First Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_356422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356422\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Adult-MHFA-Group-Photo_10.27.2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-356422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Adult-MHFA-Group-Photo_10.27.2021-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-356422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representatives of the CNMI Superior Court\u2019s Office of Adult Probation and the CNMI Substance Abuse, Addictions &amp; Rehabilitation Program participate in Adult Mental Health First Aid training. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.\u2019s Community Guidance Center certified nine additional individuals on Oct. 27, 2021, in Adult Mental Health First Aid.<\/p>\n<p>The participating agencies included the CNMI Superior Court\u2019s Office of Adult Probation and the CNMI Substance Abuse, Addictions &amp; Rehabilitation Program.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking skills-based course teaches participants the tools to identify, understand, and respond to someone who might be struggling with a mental health or substance use challenge, and connect them with appropriate support and resources when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family members may find it hard to know when and how to step in, and as a result, those in need of mental health services often do not receive care until much later. But just as CPR helps those without medical training assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to interact with a person experiencing a mental health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Led by CGC\u2019s Kimberly Seman Tudela and Lorielyn Duenas Lacay, Mental Health First Aiders learned the MHFA five-step action plan that guides them through the process of reaching out and offering appropriate support, which helps break down barriers and stigma in order to better support one another.<\/p>\n<p>The CGC has certified a total of 1,168 individuals in the CNMI, Palau, and Guam in either the MHFA youth curriculum, adult curriculum, or both.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on MHFA, visit https:\/\/www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org. For contact information and to request for the CGC\u2019s MHFA training, visit https:\/\/chcc.gov.mp\/communitysupporttraining.php. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.\u2019s Community Guidance Center certified nine additional individuals on Oct. 27, 2021,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":356422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3593],"class_list":["post-356421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cgc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}