First aid for Mental Health

The Online First Aid for Mental Health course is for those who are looking to gain an awareness of mental illness.

The course will enable candidates to understand some common mental health illnesses, and to support their own mental health and the wellbeing of colleagues by creating Mental Health First Aid champions within the workplace.

The course covers:

• What is First Aid for Mental Health?
• Identifying mental health conditions
• Providing advice and starting a conversation
• Stress
• Mental health conditions
• Drugs and alcohol
• First Aid for Mental Health action plan
• First Aid for Mental Health in the workplace

This is a short course with an assessment - the blended learning model allows us to teach it via zoom intensively and the assessment afterwards helps to test the pre learning and online taught material