AgriSafe Learning
Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory (COMET) Community Training
Includes a Live Web Event on 09/23/2025 at 11:00 AM (CDT)
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Summary: COMET is a direct response to rural community members’ concerns about mental health needs. COMET is a community-based intervention to activate community members and provide them with language, tools, and confidence to intervene when they notice someone around them is unwell, and before a mental health crisis occurs. COMET supports community wellness by focusing on the upstream prevention of mental and emotional health crises.
Objectives: At the end of this webinar, participants will:
- Learn the importance of being "the other person" and the seven-component conversation guide
- Practice with tailored scenarios, share feedback
- Participate in discussions of comfort level and motivation, and review resources
Intended audience: Anyone is welcome. While a range of populations can find COMET very useful, the program is specifically designed for people living in rural communities. In this setting, the training may also be useful for individuals looking to add a training like COMET to their own programming.
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LockedThe University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, Education and Research Center offers 1.0 contact hour for each webinar during National Farm Safety and Health Week. Upon completing the evaluation, learners will receive a certificate of completion. This course can meet continuing education requirements for a variety of professionals including: BGC criteria for IH/CIH professionals, BCSP criteria for safety professionals, CPH criteria for public health professionals.
Maret Felzien MA
Faculty
COMET
Maret Felzien has been collaborating and advocating as a community partner in primary care research for over 20 years. With a focus on rural health including work to improve mental health knowledge and access, she strives to bring her lived experiences, practicality and desires for quality care to the work. She is retired from higher education and co-operates the family dryland farm.
Chad Reznicek, MA LPC
Behavioral Health State Specialist
Colorado AgrAbility Project
Chad Reznicek is the Behavioral Health State Specialist with Colorado State University Extension and the Colorado AgrAbility Project. He is committed to helping expand and improve behavioral health support and resources in rural communities. Prior to joining the AgrAbility Team, Chad spent 20 years as a licensed therapist, providing behavioral health services in diverse settings with special focus areas in suicide prevention, trauma, mood disorders, and substance abuse. Both of Chad’s parents were raised on farms and he grew up in a small town in central Nebraska with a deep respect for agriculture as the heart of our rural communities.
