Training & Education Center (TEC)

The Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania’s Training and Education Center (TEC) strives to promote hope and recovery for people with mental illness by providing training and education programs in a culturally competent manner to family members/service providers to help them facilitate a recovery process in themselves and their loved ones or clients.

GOALS

1. Provide supportive, educational multi-week workshops for family members, partners and friends of people with mental illness on various topics (e.g., borderline personality disorder, self-care for trauma and burnout, dealing with treatment avoidance, anger management)
2. Provide regular presentations and problem-solving groups for family members as an alternative or follow-up to multi-week workshops
3. Provide a support group for adult siblings and adult children of people with serious mental health and personality issues
4. Provide individualized, time-limited family consultation by phone or in person for family members of all ages dealing with mental illness in a loved one
5. Provide an interactive web site for youth coping with mental illness in their family, and for people who care about them (e.g., family members, educators, professionals)
6. Provide training to staff of behavioral health and child welfare agencies
7. Provide mini-courses and lectures for psychiatric residents and graduate students
8. Offer guest speaking, serve on boards/committees and facilitate coalitions that promote support and education for family members of all ages who have a loved one with mental illness