Mental health first aid (Youth)
Mental Health First Aid (Youth)
This 16 hour face to face or online (over several sessions) course qualifies you as a Mental Health First Aider (Youth), giving you:
- An in-depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing
- Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
- Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress
- Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
- Knowledge to help a young person recover their health by guiding them to further support – whether that’s through self-help sites, their place of learning, the NHS, or a mix – engaging with parents, carers and external agencies where appropriate
- Ability to support a young person with a long term mental health issue or disability to thrive
- Tools to look after your own mental wellbeing
- Max participants: 16
MHFA Champion (Youth)
This one day (8 hour) course qualifies you as a MHFA Champion (Youth), giving you:
- An understanding of common mental health issues and how they can affect young people
- Ability to spot signs of mental ill health in young people and guide them to a place of support
- Knowledge and confidence to advocate for mental health awareness
- Skills to support positive wellbeing
- Max participants: 16
Mental Health Aware (Youth)
This introductory three hour (can be delivered online) session raises awareness of young people’s mental health. It covers:
- Some of the common mental health issues affecting young people, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis
- Skills to work more effectively with young people living with mental health issues
- Ways to support young people with a mental health issue and relate to their experiences
- Max participants: 25
Mental Health First Aid - Youth (16 Hour)
Who are the courses suitable for?
The course is ideal for those who work, or have an interest in working with young people in a professional or voluntary capacity. It is also useful for people who are interested in the mental health of young people such as parents or carers.
Due to the sensitive nature of the subjects of these courses, the numbers for each course are limited to 16 people and targeted at individuals aged 16 years and above. If you are 16 or 17 you will also need parental permission.
We also deliver the MHFA (Adult) courses if your work is mainly with adults 18+.
How much does the course cost?
The cost of the course varies depending on if it's the 2, 1 or 1/2 day variant. You can either sign up to one of our open courses or we can arrange to come out to your organisation, charity or school to deliver the training to a specific group of staff.
What participants receive
All participants receive a certificate, manual and workbook to keep. As you might expect the longer the course the more comprehensive the manual is.
Where are the courses held?
We run courses all over the UK. We can run them for groups at a venue to suit you.
For a list of our up coming open courses please see our Eventbrtite page: http://mentalhealthbuildingblocks.eventbrite.com/