Yorktown Class Teaches Youths About Mental Health First Aid

YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- A youth mental health first aid course is being offered Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at Soundview Preparatory School in Yorktown Heights.

A class in mental health first aid is being offered Saturday in Yorktown Heights.
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Robert Mikulak

10/23/2015 12:00 p.m.

The class is sponsored by the Putnam Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services' Project Aware and the Alliance for Safe Kids.

The class will teach a five-step action plan to offer initial help to young people showing signs of a mental illness or in a crisis and connect them with the appropriate professional, peer, social or self-help care.

Presenters will be Dara Caputo of St. Christopher's Inc. and Karen R. Profita, a social worker.

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