Courses and Workshops

Mental Health First Aid
for your Team

Delivered to your team

Facilitated either onsite at your workplace, or via Zoom, the Standard MHFA course can be delivered as either the Standard Workplace or Standard Community format.

Where workplaces are looking at colleague to colleague support the Workplace version is preferred, however, there is the option of the Community format where the application of MHFA will be more customer/client facing.

Benefits include: 

• customised to your industry and specific environment
• flexible delivery
• comprehensive support to accredit your team

 

* On completion of the final quiz participants will be accredited as a MHFAider for 3 years.

Standard Workplace MHFA Course

The Standard Workplace MHFA course is delivered fully online allowing participants to join from anywhere across Australia. You’ll gain valuable insight into how other industries and professions support workers mental health due to the flexibility of online delivery.

Focusing on the workplace, it provides information and skills around the provision of mental health first aid to assist colleagues, clients, and other workplace contacts.

Course content:

• Recognise signs & symptoms of common mental health problems and crisis situations
• Understand the impact of untreated mental health problems in the workplace
• Learn a framework to have supportive mental health conversations
• Increase knowledge of existing workplace supports and external professional options.
• Self-care strategies for both the employee and the mental health first aider

Course format:

Component One – Self paced interactive eLearning modules (4 – 6 hours)
Component Two – Virtual workshop delivered on Zoom (7 hours incl. breaks)

* On completion of the final quiz participants will be accredited as a MHFAider for 3 years.

Standard Refresher MHFA Course

The Standard Refresher MHFA course is available to those who have completed the full Workplace or Community MHFA training within the past 3 years.

Completion of this course will allow you to test your recall of the MHFA Action Plan, allow you to interact with and learn from other MHFAiders and importantly practice and renew confidence in your skills.

Course content:

• Updates on latest Australian research and statistics
• Revision of most common mental illnesses
• Refresh of ALGEE framework
• Discussion and sharing of experience using MHFA
• Practice of skills and knowledge

Course format:

Delivered online via Zoom (5.5 hours including breaks)

* On completion of the final quiz participants will be accredited as a MHFAider for 3 years.