Mental Health First Aid Training
- Provide initial support.
- Gain confidence in helping people with mental illness.
- Learn more about mental health problems in Australia.
- Reduce stigma.
- Acquire practical skills through an evidence based Action Plan to know how to support someone.
1 in 5 Australians in any one year will suffer a mental illness.
Mental Health First Aid training increases confidence and mental health literacy and as a result teaches you what to do when someone tells you
“I am not OK”
Build skills and confidence
Handling Health is passionate about providing members of the community with the skills and confidence to provide Mental Health First Aid.
The course looks at helping adults who are developing a mental health problem, experiencing a mental health crisis or experiencing a worsening of a current mental illness.
What are you waiting for?
Mental ill health costs Australian workplaces $4.7 billion in absenteeism, $1.6 billion in presenteeism and $146 million in compensation claims per year. (mhfa.com.au)
Mental Health First Aid is an award winning program. In addition, it is included in SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidenced-Based Programs and Practices.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is evidence informed and evaluated.
The evidence-based training course gives adults the skills to support a co-worker, friend or family member.
Evaluations have shown that the course provides participants with an increase in confidence to have supportive conversations with others that may have a mental health problem. In addition, you will learn when to guide them to professional help.
Research through Mental Health First Aid Australia shows that the course increases knowledge, confidence and helping behaviours, whilst at the same time reducing stigma.
Testimonials
Ali delivered this content in a professional manner and facilitated the course exceptionally well.
As a counsellor, it was a fantastic refresher and informer of concepts I had not necessarily revisited in a long time. A lot of our Professional Development relates to therapeutic techniques so it was excellent to revisit the MHFA and hear the new statistics and research available on various mental health disorders. I feel that I have left this course with a renewed empathy for sufferers as well.
Brilliant energy where needed and great empathy and care when required with the more sensitive content.
She (Ali) was open and honest and made clear the expectations of a MHFA person and the support on offer to assist.
Ali was a fantastic presenter. She made everything engaging, related to the audience and sought input/group participation regularly throughout. If she didn’t know the answer to a question she made sure to search and have answers available the next day! I would recommend Ali to anyone.
All teachers should do this course.
It was engaging and insightful. The activities that went with the content help facilitate great discussion and helped to cement the information.
The instructor was excellent. Extremely professional. Very passionate, knowledgeable and empathetic. She (Ali) was engaging with the content and the group, and read her audience well.