Mental Health First Aid

Sponsored by Texas Panhandle Centers

Nearly 1 in 5 U.S adults live with a mental illness and research shows that each year approximately:

44,965 American’s complete suicide.

Texas Panhandle Centers offers Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses designed to improve the general public’s views of mental health and substance use problems and link people to professional help for their mental health or substance use problems.

Mental Health First Aid is an evidence-based program that provides community members with the knowledge and skills to identify and help those affected by mental health and substance use issues.

You can make a difference! Those who take the 8-hour MHFA course will feel confident when applying 5-step action plan that can assist students, loved ones, colleagues, neighbors and other community members on how cope with mental health or substance use problems.

Mental Health First Aid Classes

Date	Host	Course	Format	Notes / Registration
8/18/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	Full In-Person	Pampa ISD — Registration closed
8/19/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	Adult/Blended In-Person	WTAMU — Registration closed
9/6/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	Virtual	Open registration on Eventbrite
9/19/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Adult MHFA	Blended In-Person	TPC — Open to community; register by email
10/8/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	In-Person	Hereford ISD — Open to ISD only
10/10/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Adult MHFA	Blended/In-Person	TPC — Open to community; register by email
10/24/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	In-Person	Vega ISD — Closed registrations
11/5/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	In-Person	Hereford ISD — Closed registrations
12/12/2025	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	In-Person	Channing ISD — Closed registration
2/15/2026	Texas Panhandle Centers	Youth MHFA	In-Person	Vega ISD — Closed registration

Questions or to register by email: crystal.morton@txpan.org

For information please call 806-351-3244 or email crystal.morton@txpan.org