The Mental Health Association In Forsyth County (MHA)

Community Connector, Resource Navigator & Educator For Mental

Health Care Services

MHA Forsyth Services

Short-Term
Counseling

This program serves as a “bridge” to help individuals access services timely and simultaneously help the recipients find and attain longer-term community mental health services.

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BIPOC Community Outreach

Outreach to the BIPOC community through education, awareness, and unique events to help remove the stigma of mental illness passed down through generations within the BIPOC community.

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Information and
Referral

MHA staff provides information and referral services to individuals based on a person’s mental health and/or financial needs.

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Mental Health
Treatment Court

The Forsyth Mental Health Treatment Court is a post-booking, jail diversion program.

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Community
Outreach

MHA provides an array of outreach services on a variety of mental health and related topics.

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Operation
Santa Clause

Operation Santa Claus provides holiday support through goody bags filled with toiletry and personal care items, along with unit gifts, for children and adults receiving mental health treatment in our community.

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Advocacy

The MHA in Forsyth advocates for children, adults, and families affected by mental illness by partnering with local providers to offer resource assistance and service coordination.

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Mental illness is real, mental illness is common and mental illness is treatable!

ANXIETY

DISORDERS

The most common type of mental illness that interferes with your ability to function, often overreacts when something triggers your emotions and difficult to control responses to situations.

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MOOD

DISORDERS

A mental health class that health professionals use to broadly describe all types of depression and bipolar disorders.

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SCHIZOPHRENIA/ PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS

A serious brain disorder characterized by a profound disruption in cognition and emotion. Affects language, thought, perception, affect and sense of self.

MHA Forsyth

Trainings

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Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training for Law Enforcement & Other First Responders

MHA is the lead agency in the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program in Forsyth County. CIT is a 5-day training for law enforcement, such as patrol, detention, campus police, EMS, fire, probation and other related personnel to help them recognize the signs and symptoms of persons experiencing a mental health crisis.

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Hearing Voices that are Distressing

Developed by the National Empowerment Center, the MHA partners with NAMI-NW Piedmont NC to provide this training.
Participants will hear simulated voices and simultaneously undertake a series of tasks including...

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Mental Health 101 Educational

MHA offers “Mental Health 101” trainings to anyone in the community interested in learning more about mental health, how to help someone in distress and local resources for help in our community.

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Awareness and Prevention

MHA works to spread awareness, understanding and to help reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.

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MHA Forsyth

Support Groups

Support Groups are designed to help participants share common concerns,
Learn and exchange new information, Develop appropriate coping skills and Develop natural supports.

Schizophrenia/Schizo-Affective Disorders

Support group for adults living with schizophrenia / schizo-affective disorder. Meets in-person every second and fourth Thursday from 2:30 to 4:00 pm at the Mental Health Association in Forsyth County, 1509 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, NC.

Tides Mood Disorders

Support group for adults living with depression, bi-polar disorder or other mood disorders. Meets in-person every first, third and fifth Tuesday evenings of each month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Mental Health Association in Forsyth County, 1509 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, NC.

Anxiety Disorders

Support group for adults living with anxiety such as generalized anxiety, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders. Applicable for adults who live with both anxiety and mood disorders. Meets in-person every second and fourth Thursday evenings of each month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Mental Health Association in Forsyth County, 1509 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, NC.