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HEALTH FIRST AID Charlie Hustle Israel, Covid-19 and the vaccine

By Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz, Community Chaplain

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do not receive any mental gives adults who work with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial record. Everyone knew he was no St. slapped a two-run single past totally
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health treatment. support to children and adolescents (ages 6-18) who may be developing a mental Pete off the field, but his extraordinary caught-off-guard Giants third baseman
health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.
– Mental Health America
talent, grit and fierce will to win on it Jim Ray Hart. It was vintage Rose.
64.1% Why Youth Mental Health First Aid? were on display every time he suited up. We are often reminded of the vir-
1 in 5 Three Learning Options Who Should Take it Notwithstanding the gambling mis- tue of consistency, that doing some-
Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond
Why Youth Mental Health First Aid?
64.1%
to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth. This 6-hour training
of youth with major depression
Youth Mental Health First Aid training teaches you how to identify,
gives adults who work with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial
• Virtual. First Aiders will complete • Teachers deeds that continue to keep him out of thing well the same way over and over
do not receive any mental
Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond
support to children and adolescents (ages 6-18) who may be developing a mental
health treatment.
to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth. This 6-hour training
understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance abuse disorders
of youth with major depression
teens and young adults a 2-hour, self-paced online class, • School staff the Major League is a fundamental key to success. May-
health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.
– Mental Health America
do not receive any mental
lives with a mental and then participate in a 4-hour, gives adults who work with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial
in children and adolescents (ages 12-18) and connect them to the appropriate care.
support to children and adolescents (ages 6-18) who may be developing a mental
health treatment.
health condition. Instructor-led videoconference. • Coaches Baseball Hall of be so, but Pete Rose was a consistently
health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.
1 in 5
– Mental Health America
• Camp counselors
Three Learning Options
– National Alliance for Mental Illness • Blended Learning. After completing Who Should Take the Class? Who Should Take it Fame, he respect- fine hitter precisely because of his un-
• Virtual. First Aiders will complete
• Teachers
a 2-hour, self-paced online class, First • Youth group leaders • Youth Group Leaders ed the game and predictability.
teens and young adults
a 2-hour, self-paced online class,
• Coaches
• Teachers
1 in 5
• School staff
lives with a mental
and then participate in a 4-hour,
Aiders will participate in a 4-hour, in- • Parents Three Learning Options • Coaches Who Should Take it its rules, both of- In its own way, his play correlated
• Camp Counselors
• Parents
• School Staff
health condition.
Instructor-led videoconference.
• Virtual. First Aiders will complete
person, Instructor-led class. • People who work with • Camp counselors Teachers
•
• Blended Learning. After completing
– National Alliance for Mental Illness
teens and young adults
5.13% • In-person. First Aiders will receive youth a 2-hour, self-paced online class, • Youth group leaders ficial and unwrit- with today’s modern, disruptive econo-
• School staff
a 2-hour, self-paced online class, First
lives with a mental
and then participate in a 4-hour,
Choose from two training sessions | $36 per session
of youth report having a their training as an 6.5-hour Aiders will participate in a 4-hour, in- • Parents • Coaches ten. Rose didn’t my. But such disruption is hardly new.
health condition.
Instructor-led videoconference.
person, Instructor-led class.
• People who work with
5.13%
substance use or Instructor-led in-person course. • In-person. First Aiders will receive youth • Camp counselors show up pitch- It’s just happening at an accelerated
• Blended Learning. After completing
– National Alliance for Mental Illness
a 2-hour, self-paced online class, First
alcohol problem. of youth report having a their training as an 6.5-hour • Youth group leaders ers. He didn’t flip rate. The evolution from the industrial
Instructor-led in-person course.
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substance use or
• Parents
Aiders will participate in a 4-hour, in-
Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz
– Mental Health America alcohol problem. APRIL 11 person, Instructor-led class. • People who work with his bat or take a into the technological age has witnessed
9:00am-2:00pm
9:00am-2:00pm
5.13%
– Mental Health America • In-person. First Aiders will receive youth
What it Covers of youth report having a What it Covers slow trot after hitting a home run. On it over and over again from when the
their training as an 6.5-hour
Registration Deadline
Registration Deadline
• Common signs and symptoms of mental illness in this age group, including the contrary, he raced around the bases steam engine train revolutionized trans-
substance use or
• Common signs and symptoms of mental illness in this age group, including
Instructor-led in-person course.
The course will teach you how The course will teach you how • Anxiety May 3, 2021
Mar. 22, 2021
alcohol problem.
to apply the ALGEE action plan:
to apply the ALGEE action plan: • Anxiety • Assess for risk of suicide or • Depression with his head down as if to spare pitch- portation.
– Mental Health America
• Depression • Eating disorders
• Assess for risk of suicide or harm. • Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) ers having to endure the moment any Interestingly, Judaism’s creation
What it Covers
• Listen nonjudgmentally.
harm. • Eating disorders • Common signs and symptoms of substance use longer than necessary. No wonder they millennia ago also represented a signif-
• Common signs and symptoms of mental illness in this age group, including
To sign up, visit
• Give reassurance and
The course will teach you how
• Listen nonjudgmentally. • Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) • How to interact with a child or adolescent in crisis rarely threw at him. icant disruption. At the time, the idea of
information.
• Anxiety
professional help. JFEDSRQ.org/Events
to apply the ALGEE action plan:
• Encourage appropriate
• Depression
• Give reassurance and • Common signs and symptoms of substance use • How to connect the person with help Pete admired good play whether an invisible, monotheistic deity seemed
• Assess for risk of suicide or
• NEW: Expanded content on trauma, addiction and self-care and the impact
• Eating disorders
information. • How to interact with a child or adolescent in crisis of social media and bullying
harm.
• Encourage self-help and
other support strategies. For more information, contact Trudi Krames at
• Listen nonjudgmentally.
• Encourage appropriate • How to connect the person with help • Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) by a teammate or a member of the op- preposterous. Additionally, the values,
941.706.0037 or tkrames@jfedsrq.org
• Common signs and symptoms of substance use
• Give reassurance and
professional help. • NEW: Expanded content on trauma, addiction and self-care and the impact position and, while he had his share of texts and traditions that emerged in its
As adults, we sometimes forget how hard it was being an adolescent. When we see a kid who is just miserable at school, we might
• How to interact with a child or adolescent in crisis
information.
think they choose to be that way — or that it’s just part of adolescence. But in fact, they might be in a mental health crisis, one they
• Encourage self-help and of social media and bullying • How to connect the person with help beefs with umpires, he also held them wake were groundbreaking. But they
certainly did not choose and do not want. When a teacher says, ‘How can I be helpful?’ that is a powerful question.”
• Encourage appropriate
— Alyssa Fruchtenicht, school-based mental health counselor
in considerable regard. He took time
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As adults, we sometimes forget how hard it was being an adolescent. When we see a kid who is just miserable at school, we might to sign autographs when other players interpretation and application have
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• Bunny Skirboll
MentalHealthFirstAid.org OR EMAIL Info@MentalHealthFirstAid.org.
think they choose to be that way — or that it’s just part of adolescence. But in fact, they might be in a mental health crisis, one they begged off. Rose came from humble invested them throughout the genera-
As adults, we sometimes forget how hard it was being an adolescent. When we see a kid who is just miserable at school, we might
certainly did not choose and do not want. When a teacher says, ‘How can I be helpful?’ that is a powerful question.”
• Joan and Brian Wides
think they choose to be that way — or that it’s just part of adolescence. But in fact, they might be in a mental health crisis, one they
— Alyssa Fruchtenicht, school-based mental health counselor certainly did not choose and do not want. When a teacher says, ‘How can I be helpful?’ that is a powerful question.” beginnings on the decidedly work- tions with new meaning.
— Alyssa Fruchtenicht, school-based mental health counselor ing-class side of town. What was once seen as disruptive
TO FIND A COURSE OR CONTACT AN INSTRUCTOR IN YOUR AREA, VISIT Most ascribe his greatness to natu- often becomes widely accepted. The
TO FIND A COURSE OR CONTACT AN INSTRUCTOR IN YOUR AREA, VISIT
MentalHealthFirstAid.org OR EMAIL Info@MentalHealthFirstAid.org. ral ability, but there was another feature inception of the Hasidic movement in
MentalHealthFirstAid.org OR EMAIL Info@MentalHealthFirstAid.org.
of Charlie Hustle that set him apart: his the 17 century provoked harsh reac-
th
relish for unconventional play. After a tion. Today, however, Hasidic Jews are
walk, while others loped, Pete ran full regarded as a well-established stream
speed to first. No matter how it came within Judaism. The study of Kabbal-
about, he thrilled to just get on base. ah and Jewish Mysticism, once viewed
SARASOTA-MANATEE JEWISH COMMUNITY as anathema by many scholars, are
SECURITY quiry.
now respected fields of Jewish in-
Without creative disruption
and the recalibration, reframing
and inventiveness it brings, Juda-
ism runs the risk of becoming hard-
I N ITI A TI V E ened and inflexible. Openness to
new models of worship, communi-
ty and learning is vital because the
future of an engaging and affirming
The Federation has taken extraordinary steps to enhance our Jewish spirituality is at stake.
community’s safety, security and preparedness posture by Here’s one small example.
partnering with Secure Community Network (SCN), hiring Sarasota- Several years ago, when I served
Manatee’s first Jewish Community Security Director, Jeff Solomon as spiritual leader of Temple Beth
Rabbi Katz, second from left at age 11,
and providing the “Keeping SRQ Safe” Community Security watches Pete Rose sign his glove before a game Israel, a pontoon boat that had
Initiative program. at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. The photo appeared been rented and decorated to re-
on the Reds’ scorecard the following season. semble a sukkah docked at Plym-
Opponents were flummoxed by his outh Harbor and the Sarasota Bay Club
• Safety and Security Training fickle nature at the plate. Unlike a lot for temple members to board. They
• Information Sharing of hitters who show a tendency to al- took turns shaking the lulav, enjoyed
• Security Advice and Consultation ways take the first pitch, pull the ball refreshments, sang songs and shared
• Security Website Platform or lay off curves, Rose’s at-bats did not Sukkot stories from their childhoods.
exhibit a discernible pattern. After sin- Celebrating in this different dimension
gling up the middle on the first pitch to made for an especially memorable,
For detailed information and to sign-up for security alerts, visit
open a game, he might then look like positive experience.
he was swinging for the fences with a Some may feel that drawing a par-
JFEDSRQ.org/SRQSafe. big cut the next time up before laying allel between Pete Rose and Judaism
Join us in creating a
To report an incident, go to the web page listed above, then click the red, down a drag bunt. Of course, he was is fairly far-fetched. However, let me
“Click Here to Report an Incident” button.
safer, more resilient and prepared Jewish community! also just as apt to leave the bat on his remind you that the first subject the
shoulders and take a walk. With an Torah mentions concerns baseball. In
ignore me at your own peril attitude, fact, reference to America’s pastime
he’d cannily steal a base when pitchers is found in its opening word. After all,
COMMUNITY SECURITY INITIATIVE weren’t paying attention to his lead. don’t we read, “In the big inning?”
Once, against San Francisco, the Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz serves as the
Giants decided to issue him an inten- Community Chaplain and Director of
tional pass with two Reds in scoring JFCS’s Jewish Healing Program. His
position. After noticing that the first position is underwritten by The Jewish
two balls weren’t thrown all that far off Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.