The Diocese of Phoenix will offer Mental Health First Aid Training starting January 2025 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center. If you are interested in attending, please click the link below to submit your application request. You can submit your request as an individual or if you are representing your parish and would like to have your team attend this training.
The Diocese of Phoenix will offer Mental Health First Aid Training starting January 2025 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center. If you are interested in attending, please click the link below to submit your application request. You can submit your request as an individual or if you are representing your parish and would like to have your team attend this training.
You are not alone.
No estás solo.
Accompaniment | Advocacy | Education | Mental Health First Aid Training-MHFA
Acompañamiento | Abogacia | Educación
The Office of Mental Health Ministry is not a clinical resource and is not intended to serve as a substitute for treatment or counseling with a qualified professional. We do not diagnose or treat mental illness, but rather serve as an avenue to provide literacy in mental health to promote the reduction of mental illness stigma, encourage conversations around mental illness, and create a safe environment for individuals to share and seek help surrounding their mental illness (Catholic Mental Health Ministry Guidelines, 2019). Our mission is to help create pastoral environments where people living with mental illness can meet, share their experiences and their Catholic faith with others, and to grow spiritually in their relationship with God.
Remember, you are not alone.
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Watch Bishop Dolan’s story.
Pray for our loved ones who died by suicide.
Education
Training for clergy, parish ministry and school leaders and laity on the most current understanding of mental wellness and mental illness. With an emphasis on providing tools and resources for this training to take place, our leaders will be equipped to meet those in the community who are experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis with confidence, understanding, and pastoral care.
Mental Health First Aid Training- MHFA
Mental Health First Aid is an early intervention public education program. It teaches adults how to recognize the signs and symptoms that suggest a potential mental health challenge, how to listen non judgmentally and give reassurance to a person who may be experiencing a mental health challenge, and how to refer a person to appropriate professional support and services.
Mental Health First Aid was created in Australia in 2000 by Betty Kitchener, an educator and mental health consumer, and Professor Tony Jorm, a mental health researcher. In 2008, the National Council, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health brought Mental Health First Aid to the United States.
Now, the Diocese of Phoenix will offer Mental Health First Aid Training starting January 2025 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center. If you are interested in attending, please click the link below to submit your application request. You can submit your request as an individual or if you are representing your parish and would like to have your team attend this training.
What is Mental Health First Aid?
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an evidence-based training program designed to teach individuals how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges. It equips participants with the skills needed to provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem or experiencing a crisis.
Accompaniment
Creating pastoral environments where people experiencing mental health challenges, those caring for loved ones who are mentally ill, survivors of friends and family members who have experienced loss through death by suicide, or anyone who needs support can share their experiences. The spaces will be open to individuals for Catholic faith sharing in an effort to grow spiritually and deepen their relationship with God.
Prayer Intentions
We would like to pray for you and your loved ones! Please submit your prayer intentions here. These prayer intentions will be offered as the intention for a special Mass held on the second Monday of every month at the Diocesan Pastoral Center Chapel.
Coming Soon: The Mass for these prayer intentions will be live streamed starting in August or September, check back here for more information.
Intenciones de oración
¡Nos gustaría orar por usted y sus seres queridos! Por favor, envíe sus intenciones de oración aquí. Estas intenciones de oración se ofrecerán como la intención de una Misa especial celebrada el segundo lunes de cada mes en la capilla del Centro Pastoral Diocesano.
Próximamente: La misa para estas intenciones de oración se transmitirá en vivo a partir de agosto o septiembre, vuelva aquí para obtener más información.
Advocacy
Partnering with coalitions and local leaders in Arizona to give voice to those experiencing a mental health illness, effect policy change, and assure that mental health is at the forefront of discussions.
“Whoever suffers from mental illness ‘always’ bears God’s image and likeness in himself, as does every human being. In addition, he ‘always’ has the inalienable right not only to be considered as an image of God and therefore as a person, but also to be treated as such.”