LMHA Workshop Series Recruitment

Our program is designed to teach laypersons the fundamentals needed to advocate for someone who is dealing with mental illness and their family members. This program focuses on teaching mental health advocacy through the lens of understanding how social determinants of health and racism play a key role in worsening mental health outcomes for marginalized communities. 

 

Community volunteers are trained by doctors, clinicians, and social workers in a 8-week course that teaches them the fundamentals needed to work one-on-one supporting someone in need of help managing their mental wellness.

 

After the completion of the 8-week course, trained lay mental health advocates have the option of being paired with someone in their community. These lay mental health advocates will be able to offer emotional support, help find resources, and empower the health-seeker to increase their confidence in advocating for themselves. Additionally, advocates will be able to help health-seekers in scheduling appointments, monitoring their condition, and planning for follow-up care.

Advocates will be able to identify a number of different mental disorders, gain a greater understanding of the factors that exacerbate health disparities, understand how to provide effective emotional support, and gain confidence in the role you can play in affecting people in your community by being a mental health advocate.

The program is offered once a year in February. It is offered free of charge thanks to the generous health care workers that teach the workshop. Participants will receive a certificate of completion and will be eligible to become an advocate through the LMHA network.

 

Completing this form means you will be notified of when to officially enroll in the LMHA Workshop series

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