By Keziah G. Huelar

Mental Health First Response team together with CPU faculty and staff.

Promoting mental health awareness—Central Philippine University is partnering with Mental Health First Response to establish a mental health first response training, crisis intervention. and other psychology-related seminars and workshops.

According to its website, https://www.mhfirstresponse.org, Mental Health First Response is a mental health crisis skills prevention and intervention workshop for Filipinos who want to gain valuable skills in mental health concerns and suicide intervention. ​This training program will assist Filipino adults or anyone to intervene with someone who may be experiencing a mental health crisis and/or other mental health conditions that may or may not be a crisis situation.

On April 27 and May 2, 2019, MHFR conducted a one-day basic mental health first response training with CPU faculty, staff, and students.