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Jill Kluesner, MA, CRC (she/her/hers)

National Trainer
Mental Health First Aid
Dyersville, Iowa

Jill Kluesner (Pronunciation: K-l-ee-s-n-er) MA, CRC (she/her/hers) has15+ years of experience working as a provider, advocate, educator, curriculum developer, published author and public health programming consultant.

Jill excels in developing, piloting, and implementing new public health education initiatives to advance change within the local and national healthcare landscape. Recent work experience includes partnering the with National Council for Mental Wellbeing to create and pilot in-person, hybrid, and virtual training experiences for the teen, youth, adult and community-specific Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training programs. Jill has supported hundreds of schools, organizations, and workplaces through strategic implementation of MHFA (teen, youth and adult).

Partnerships also include the American Institutes on Research to implement the Department of Defense SPARX Knowledge training which teaches the military’s prevention workforce the public health approach to the prevention of harm (i.e. suicide, sexual assault, harassment, child abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence and substance use). Furthermore, Jill supported the redesign for University of Iowa’s statewide Peer Support Specialist and Family Peer Support Specialist training curricula.

Jill is a leader in knowledge and skills transfer for instructors involved in public health programming and serves as a mentor in the public health education field. To support instructor development, she is featured in national instructional/modeling videos and continues to be instrumental in the development process.

Jill completed her undergraduate work at Iowa State University and her graduate work in Rehabilitation Counseling and Public Health at the University of Iowa.

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