Mental Health First Aid and Awareness Training
Training for you and your workplace. Raising awareness of Mental Health
Increasing your confidence in helping others and in taking care of your own mental health. Beating stigma and creating a more connected and co-supportive society.
Do you wonder how you would support someone having a panic attack at work?
Are you concerned about the wellbeing and health of the people within your organisation, team or community?
Perhaps you are a professional who works with people and though, like me, you aren’t a therapist, they talk to you about themselves, their lives and sometimes their mental health?
Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
Stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 15.4 million working days off related to work place ill-health in 2017. On average, each person suffering took around 28.5 days off work. * Now, with the COVID pandemic and all it’s repercussions, those figures will be higher. It has had huge impacts on mental health, the extent of which we still only have a partial understanding of. More and more Leaders are asking what they need to do to uphold the wellbeing and mental health of the people in their organisations.
Addressing the mental health of your work force could not be more important, both for them and for you.
Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year. In England, 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (such as anxiety and depression) in any given week.**
And, it goes without saying that a happy workforce is a super productive workforce, so great team and individual mental health is crucial on many levels.
A Super Productive Workforce
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
This training will give you a deeper understanding of what mental health is, how poor mental health can show up, what support there is for recovery and how to start a conversation with someone you may be concerned about.
This skills-based course will give you the confidence to approach someone about how they are, resources to signpost people to appropriate help and make you better equipped for challenging stigma around mental health. Plus, it will increase your knowledge about taking care of your own mental health.
Who is Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) For?
The online course consists of 4 live sessions and some individual learning in preparation for each session. I run the open courses as 4 half days or two full days, usually with a gap of a week in between.
In-house courses can be run online or at your premises (two days with no pre-learning) and structured on days and times that suit your team.
Up Coming Course Dates
Mental Health First Aid in Leeds, June 2024
2 days classroom learning in Central Leeds:
Monday 24th & Tuesday 25th September, 9am - 4pm
£300/person
Mental Health First Aid in Hull, July 2024
2 days classroom learning in Hull:
Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th July, 9am – 5pm
£300/person
Mental Health First Aid in Hull, September 2024
2 days classroom learning in Hull:
Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th July, 9am – 5pm
£300/person
Course attendees say..
The trainers were fantastic and kept check on our welfare. Fantastic course and I will take a lot away from it.”
Kate Riordan, London Met Police
Doing the Mental Health First Aid course was extremely beneficial to me, the help and awareness I can bring to not only work colleagues but friends and family is second to none, I have now created a training package for all line managers showing the benefits of wellbeing and have the know-how on what to do next.
I fully promote this course to anyone who is offered it, all police officers should have this training.”
PC Debbie Hines, London Metropolitan Police
Frequently Asked Questions
I provide outsourced HR support for businesses, should I do the MH Aware or MHFA?
In 2022, I plan to be working face to face with clients one day a week at Wellbeing in York.
How much individual learning is there on the online course?
How much does the course cost?
In-house courses cost £2000 for up to 12 people, with an admin fee for each person after that, up to 16 delegates. Discounts can be agreed when booking more than one course.
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