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The Kennedy Forum

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The Kennedy Forum
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312.450.3456
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https://thekennedyforumillinois.org/
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  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: Nov 06 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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Blue Door Neighborhood Center
756 E. 111th St, Chicago, IL
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Step Up Assistance Program:

The Step Up Assistance Program mission and goals are to assist families in ways the whole family might need assistance. We are committed in helping meet the challenges families are facing with regards to peer and professional support and access to services.

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Mental Health Can Affect Learning

When mental health issues are present in the home, it can affect a child’s ability to learn and study. We want to help children advance by providing tutoring programs and more! Mental health education connects many factors—poverty, homelessness, depression suicide and marginalized groups. Help us support families in need.

Donate Now! Support Families Who Need Mental Health Services

Mental health issues such as homelessness affect people living in shelters around 26 percent—about 46 percent suffer from severe disorders overall. Reported by NAMI. Mental health education connects many factors—poverty, homelessness, depression, suicide and marginalized groups and the elderly. Help us support persons on the road to recover.

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The Step Up Assistance Program mission and goals are to assist families in ways the whole family might need assistance. We are committed in helping meet the challenges families are facing with regards to peer and professional support and access to services.

Date

Nov 06 2019
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Time

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mental Health First Aid Training (Free)

Step Up For Mental Health has partnered with The Kennedy Forum at the Blue Door Neighborhood Center in the Pullman neighborhood. These trainings lessen stigma, increase the ability to identify mental health and substance use challenges, helps someone intervene in emergency and non-emergency mental health challenges, and provides information about how, when, and where to access local resources for communities and caregivers and families living with mental health challenges. 

This is a full-day training class, where you will receive a 3-year certification of completion. Great also for psychology students, persons working with families living with poverty or other marginalized groups.  

  • Please RSVP Now! (Space is limited)
  • All participants receive a three-year Adult Mental Health First Aid certification.

 

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