Marie Dudek is a certified Mental Health First Aid instructor, President of Creating Today, Inc., and a founding member of the Central Florida Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In June 2003, Marie experienced the suicide death of her beautiful 22-year old daughter, Natalie Gillett. Since that time, her grief journey has brought many gifts her way. Today, Marie provides support to individuals and families after the suicide of a loved one. She works to heighten understanding of the importance of mental health awareness through a multi-faceted approach.
Mental Health First Aid - a certification course where you learn an action plan to help loved ones, colleagues, neighbors and others cope with mental health conditions. Similar to traditional First Aid & CPR, Mental Health First Aid is help provided to a person developing a mental health condition or experiencing a crisis until professional treatment is obtained or the crisis resolves.
Mental Health First Aid USA is approved to provide 12 general Recertification Credit Hours by the Society for Human Resource Management’s HR Certification Institute. These hours relate to the Professional in Human Resources (PHR), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) & Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR) certifications.
For additional information, go to http://www.creatingtoday.net/MHFA.html
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There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way, is always “present;” it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again. -- Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -- Marcel Proust