Mental Health First Aid Training
Delivered by our accredited trainers, this Mental Health First Aid course will teach you and your team how to provide initial support to other adults who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis.
This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals.
Upskill your team
Attendees will become an Accredited Mental Health First Aider upon completion of the course.
Who should attend?
- Team leaders
- Supervisors
- Department managers
- HR managers
- OH&S managers
Course format
- 12 hour course that can be delivered over two, three or four sessions.
- We recommend a gap of no more than two weeks between sessions.
- Maximum 15 participants per course.
Topics covered
- Mental health crisis
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
- Non-suicidal self-injury
- Panic attacks
- Traumatic events
- Severe psychotic states
- Severe effects from alcohol or other drug use
- Aggressive behaviours
- Mental health issues
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Psychosis
- Substance use
Benefits
Evaluations consistently show that mental health first aid training is associated with improved knowledge of mental illnesses, their treatments and appropriate first aid strategies, and confidence in providing assistance to individuals with mental illness.
It is also associated with decreased stigma and an increase in help provided.
Mental health conditions present substantial costs to organisations.However, through the successful implementation of an effective action to create a mentally healthy workplace, organisations, on average, can expect a positive return on investment (ROI) of 2.3.
That is, for every dollar spent on successfully implementing an appropriate action, there is on average $2.30 in benefits to be gained by the organisation.
