Youth Mental Health First Aid Training — Katie Rayner Associates

WANT TO BECOME A YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDER?

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YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID

Our Youth MHFA Two Day course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider

Youth Mental Health First Aiders have:

An in depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing
Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress
Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
Knowledge to help a young person recover their health by guiding them to further support – whether that’s through self-help sites, their place of learning, the NHS, or a mix – engaging with parents, carers and external agencies where appropriate
Ability to support a young person with a long term mental health issue or disability to thrive
Tools to look after your own mental wellbeing

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?

Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses are for everyone who works with, lives with or supports young people aged 8-18.
They will teach you the skills and confidence to spot the signs of mental health issues in a young person, offer first aid and guide them towards the support they need. In doing so, you can speed up a young person’s recovery and stop a mental health issue from getting worse.
Our courses won't teach you to be a therapist, but we will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis - and even potentially stop a crisis from happening.
But more than that, we aim to give you the information and skills to look after your own mental health so that you can set an example for young people. By giving you the tools to have these conversations, we hope to empower you to create a mentally healthy, supportive environment in your family, school, peer group or community.

COST:

Each course is competitively priced at £270 per person.
For group bookings of 12 or more, the price per person is £250.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

We limit numbers to 16 people per course so that the instructor can keep people safe and supported while they learn.

Learning takes place across 2 days which are split into 4 manageable sessions. Through a mix of group activities, presentations and discussions, each session is built around a Youth Mental Health First Aid action plan.

All of our Instructors are fully qualified and signed off by Mental Health First Aid England.

When you complete the course you will get:

A Youth MHFA manual to refer to whenever you need it
A workbook including some helpful tools to support your own mental health
A certificate of attendance to say you are a Youth Mental Health First Aider

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Visit the official Mental Health First Aid website here.

“One in ten young people experience a mental health issue at any one time. Suicide is the leading cause of death for those aged 5-19.

Record levels of young people are struggling. Academic pressure, social media, bullying, poverty, lack of availability of professional mental health support – all have been named by various sources as contributing to this epidemic of poor mental health in our young people.

It’s clear that young people are not getting the support they need. Key figures in a young person’s life – parents, family members, teachers, tutors, carers, youth workers – can often spot when a young person is struggling but may not know how best to help. YMHFA can help.”

“One in ten young people experience a mental health issue at any one time. Suicide is the leading cause of death for those aged 5-19.

Record levels of young people are struggling. Academic pressure, social media, bullying, poverty, lack of availability of professional mental health support – all have been named by various sources as contributing to this epidemic of poor mental health in our young people.

It’s clear that young people are not getting the support they need. Key figures in a young person’s life – parents, family members, teachers, tutors, carers, youth workers – can often spot when a young person is struggling but may not know how best to help. YMHFA can help.”

- MHFA England