One of the ongoing studies embraces a general evaluation of Mental Health First Aid using “four different methods including pre-training questionnaire, post-training questionnaire, and two follow-up questionnaires, (3 and 6 months)” (Anthony, Banh, Goldman, & Yoon, 2015). “Preliminary results suggest significant increase in knowledge, increased participant self-efficacy and confidence in performing MHFA actions, and 17% - 58% reported using MHFA when encountering individuals with mental health problems” (Anthony, Banh, Goldman, & Yoon, 2015). However, after overlooking the 2014 MHFA State Policy Tracking Chart, there seems to be an imbalance in disbursement of funding, confined differences in the target audiences, and a few states do not specify MHFA as being apart of their specific state bill. It’s relatively costly to maintain a qualified staff to train hundreds of
One of the ongoing studies embraces a general evaluation of Mental Health First Aid using “four different methods including pre-training questionnaire, post-training questionnaire, and two follow-up questionnaires, (3 and 6 months)” (Anthony, Banh, Goldman, & Yoon, 2015). “Preliminary results suggest significant increase in knowledge, increased participant self-efficacy and confidence in performing MHFA actions, and 17% - 58% reported using MHFA when encountering individuals with mental health problems” (Anthony, Banh, Goldman, & Yoon, 2015). However, after overlooking the 2014 MHFA State Policy Tracking Chart, there seems to be an imbalance in disbursement of funding, confined differences in the target audiences, and a few states do not specify MHFA as being apart of their specific state bill. It’s relatively costly to maintain a qualified staff to train hundreds of