Staff and faculty members, please join us for Wellness at Penn's "i care Training", an interactive gatekeeper training whose goal is to build a caring community with the skills and resources to intervene with student stress, distress, and crisis. Breakfast will be provided.
Quick facts:
- Approximately 6,000 faculty, staff, and students across Penn’s schools, departments, and student life programs have gone through i care. The training is open to anyone interested in being an informed resource and a caring community member.
- A team of clinicians design, facilitate, and assess the i care training.
- i care includes information, discussion, and experiential exercises that focus on (1) mental health beliefs and biases, (2) signs of stress, distress, and crisis, (3) listening techniques, (4) crisis intervention skills, and (5) counseling services