KENYA MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID MATTERS.

This is our first aid key pillars. Response. Conversation. Tools. Dialogue

"But too few of us would know how to respond if we saw someone having a panic attack.."

Most of us would know how to help if we saw someone having a heart attack—we’d start CPR, or at the very least, call an ambulance. But too few of us would know howto respond if we saw someone having a panic attack or if we were concerned that a friend or co-worker might be showing signs of depression, alcoholism or drug abuse.

"Mental Health First Aid takes the fear and hesitation out of starting conversations"

Mental Health First Aid takes the fear and hesitation out of starting conversations about mental health and substance use problems by improving understanding and providing an action plan that teaches people to safely and responsibly identify and address a potential mental illness or substance use disorder.

"Kenya Mental Health First Aiders can even save lives."

When more people are equipped with the tools, they need to start a dialogue, more people can get to the help they may need. Kenya Mental Health First Aiders can even save lives.

"Our training gives people the skills they need to reach out and provide initial help."

Our training gives people the skills they need to reach out and provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem or experiencing a crisis.

IDENTIFY

Identify a specific mental illness in your community to advise, help and even save lives within your community

UNDERSTAND

Understand where vulnerable groups in our society are coming from them that makes them susceptible to mental illness

RESPONSE

Respond to dire needs in the society either by helping directly or promoting mental wellness activities within your communities

RETRAIN

Retrain others within your community and organisations on how to handle mentally unwell persons

Kenya Mental Health First Aid-ers are…

Teachers

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First Responders

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Neighbours

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Friends

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Parents

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Caregivers

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core values

Quality Care and Service

Our focus is on quality of care and service to our patients through:
 Compassion - towards the community we serve;
 Acceptance - of everyone's right to compassionate care;
 Respect - of everyone's unique path towards their own healing;
 Empowerment - for everyone communities to be educated and to have a voice and participate in their loved one’s care
 Sincerity - in how we treat each other every day.

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our objectives

Teach Response

 Teach the society how to identify, understand and respond to signs of anxiety, mental illnesses and substance use disorders
 Sensitize the community on how to recognize mental health problems
 Stop stigma and discrimination against people with mental health problems
 Provide support by reaching out to mental illness institutions, call centers, psychiatrists to give best treatment and services to the affected patients
 Minimize delay in treatment by identifying mental illness patients and directing them to where they can get help.
 Provide therapy to individuals and creating psychosocial support groups that will bring people together to talk about their experiences and offer support to the affected.

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