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Mental Health First Aid - Blended Learning Course (Virtual)

Jun 20 - 21, 2024 9:00AM — 1:00PM

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About the Course

The Mental Health Commission of Canada reports that one in every five Canadians experiences a mental health problem within a given year. While we often know a lot about physical illness, there tends to be less knowledge about mental health or substance use problems. This lack of understanding leads to fear and negative attitudes towards individuals living with these problems. It prevents people from seeking help for themselves and from providing appropriate support to people around them.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is the support provided to a person who may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis. Course participants will learn how to:

• Recognize signs that a person may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis.
• Have conversations that encourage a person to:
  • Talk about declines in their mental well-being.
  • Discuss professional and other supports that could help with recovery to improved mental well-being.
  • Reach out to these supports.
• Assist in a mental health or substance use crisis.
• Use MHFA actions to maintain one’s own mental well-being.

Who Should Attend?

All staff are welcome to attend.
(Participants will need access to a computer with speakers, a microphone and a camera in order to participate in this virtual workshop.)

Note to Participants

This 8-hour course opens with a self-directed module (Module 1) that focuses on the information and strategies that participants will discuss and practice throughout the virtual classroom modules (Modules 2 and 3).
Course participants are required to complete Module 1 before participating in Module 2 and 3. The access code for Module 1 will be emailed to the participants (1) week prior to the workshop. Access codes for Module 1 can only be used once, so staff who register for the course need to be committed to completing the full course.

• Please test internet capabilities and course link prior to the session.
• No registration fee for Southern Health-Santé Sud staff.
• This course has a maximum of 15 participants and minimum of 8 participants.
• Registration closes (2) weeks prior to the session.

Important Course Postponement Information

It is important to include your personal home/cell # and personal email when registering for education sessions so that you may be reached in the rare instance of last-minute course cancellation/postponements.