MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
FOR YOUR WORKPLACE
Mental Health First Aid teaches is a course that teaches your employees how to identify, understand, and respond to mental health challenges.
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Identify. Understand. Respond.
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis.
What does the course cover?
Early Intervention
Risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns.
Trauma-Informed Care
Strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations.
Providing Support
Where to turn for help.
We teach learners how to respond with the Mental Health First Aid Action Plan (ALGEE)
A
Assess for risk of suicide.
L
Listen non-judgementally.
G
Give reassurance and information.
EE
Encourage appropriate professional help.
Encourage self-help and other support strategies.
In-Person
Learners complete an 8-hour, instructor led private course.
Blended
Learners complete a 2-hour, self-paced online course, and participate in a 4.5 to 5.5 hour, instructor-led private course. This training can be delivered 100% virtually or in-person.
Ways to learn.
Upon completion of the course, participants receive a 3-year certification as Mental Health First Aiders from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. For inquires about private courses, complete our contact form and we'll get right back to you.