DESCRIPTION

This two-part session will train Prince George’s County (Maryland) Memorial Library System staff on strategies/best practices for engaging with visitors to their branches who have mental health-related conditions. Participants will learn how their personal experiences, self-care, culture, trauma, and neurodiversity impact their interactions with other community members with whom they engage through their work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify the importance of self-care on the well-being of the individual and those with whom they engage
• Assess the relationship between mental and physical health
• Explain the way stigma related to mental illness contributes to stigma and people’s willingness to get help
• Identify how culture, trauma, and neurodiversity impact perception and by extension interactions between people
• Describe ways in which people demonstrate that they are listening or not listening when in conversation with others
• Assess verbal and nonverbal ways to support people with lived experience with mental illness or experiencing a mental health crisis

PRESENTER

Dave Brown
Senior Associate: School-based Training & Behavioral Health Equities
Central East Mental Health Technology Transfer Center

REGISTRATION

Participation limited to Prince George’s County Memorial Library System staff only