Standard
mental health first aid
Two day face to face course delivered by a licensed Mental Health First Aid facilitator.
A Standard Mental Health First Aid course will teach you how to provide initial support to other adults who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves, using a practical, evidence based Action Plan.
It provides an overview of mental illnesses, risk factors, prevalence, and impact before taking a much closer look at the following mental health problems: Depression, Anxiety, Substance Use, and Psychosis. A Standard Mental Health First Aid Course is an evidence based program which also looks at how to apply Mental Health First Aid in a range of crisis situations, including suicidal thoughts and behaviours, panic attacks, aggressive behaviours, and severe psychotic states.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Two day in-person workshop facilitated by two registered ASIST trainers with a commitment to excellence in suicide intervention skills training.
ASIST is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first-aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. ASIST can be learned and used by anyone.
Participants in ASIST:
Learn the skills to provide a suicide first-aid intervention
Work to develop a personalised safety plan for someone with thoughts of suicide to keep “safe-for-now”
Connect the person with thoughts of suicide to further help
Blended Online Mental Health First Aid Workplace Course
100% online in a blended format:
Course component 1: A self-paced e-learning component (takes 5-7 hours)
Course component 2: An instructor led component using video conferencing ( 2 sessions x 2.5 hours each including set up time)
The Blended Online MHFA Workplace Course has been adapted from the Standard Mental Health First Aid Course for adults.
In this informative and practical course, you will learn about the signs and symptoms of common and disabling mental health problems in adults, how to provide initial help, where and how to get professional help, what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective, and how to provide mental health first aid in a crisis situation using a practical, evidence-based action plan.
Engaging Leaders in Mental Health
Learn about Mental Health First Aid and how it can benefit your workplace. This 60 minute workshop will help leaders, decision makers and influencers understand the benefits that Mental Health First Aid can offer in helping to create mentally healthy workplaces. This course contains information about how leaders can support their employees who may be experiencing a mental health problem.
Conversations About Suicide
The Mental Health First Aid Conversations About Suicide course will teach you how to identify, approach and support someone who is experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviours using a practical, evidence based Action Plan. You will also have the opportunity to practice your new skills in a safe environment.
MHFA Refresher Training
Refresher courses are available for individuals that have completed a full 2-day Mental Health First Aid face-to-face course or a Blended or Blended Online Mental Health First Aid course, followed by the completion of an accreditation assessment within the last 3 years.
The half day workshop enables accredited Mental Health First Aiders to revise their knowledge and skills, and to extend their accreditation for a further 3 years.
Mittagundi Testimonial
“To run this course was so important, and to have Daniel go to the extreme efforts he did to come all the way from Queensland to the high plains of Victoria was a big enough effort let alone the fact that Mittagundi is an off the grid, out of reception location. For our MHFA course to run so successfully over the 2 days was a sign of the huge effort Daniel and staff put into it. Dan delivered the content in such a brilliant, easy to understand and passionate way that it has since inspired me to use the tools learnt in everyday life. I have already recommended this course to several friends.”
Amos
Bookings & Communications Manager
Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre
Upcoming Sessions
March 14 & 27
Engaging Leaders in Mental Health
Sherwood AFC
Private session
May 12 & 13
Mental Health First Aid
Mittagundi Outdoor Ed Centre
Private session