Cardinal Innovations Healthcare offers free Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) classes that cover what to do to help someone who is having a mental health crisis.
Recently, Community Engagement Specialists Meenal Khajuria and Rahim Skinner led a mental health training in the Winston-Salem area that was featured on
Spectrum News. Khajuria said one in five people in the country have a mental illness and only about 40 percent receive the help they need.
"Mental illness affects so many people around us and there are so many people that simply don't get the care they need and because it's such a misunderstood topic,” she said
Watch the video interview about
Mental Health First Aid training from
Spectrum News.