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Mental Fitness and Suicide Awareness is designed to promote awareness and skill-building, to maximize mental fitness both individually and in the workplace, and to lessen the incidence of mental health injuries including suicide.

Topics discussed include:

The Mental Health Continuum and mental fitness
How to maintain and improve your mental fitness
How to practice 4 different types of stress management techniques
The role of a supervisor in promoting a culture of understanding and mental fitness
How to recognize the signs of a person in distress
How to intervene and help someone having thought of suicide, get the help they need.
Create a personal action plan to strengthen and maintain your personal mental fitness.

The benefits
Individual

Be able to take concrete steps towards maintaining your own mental health, while also watching over that of others.
Know how to recognize the signs of a person at risk of suicide.

Community

Foster a culture of understanding and greater safety.
Be there for your peers!

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