Through the use of innovative strategies, Mental Health First Aid training shall be implemented throughout the State. Mental Health First Aid training is designed to train individuals to assist someone who is developing a mental health disorder or a substance use disorder, or who is experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis and it can be reasonably assumed that a mental health disorder or a substance use disorder is a contributing or precipitating factor.
405 ILCS 105/5
Purpose
Known as the Illinois Mental Health First Aid Training Act
The act spans §§ 405-105-1 to 405-105-99 (9 sections).
P.A. 100-759, eff. 1-1-19.
Official source: Illinois General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Illinois statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.