To register for this event please go to: https://mentalhealthtrainer.ca/virtual-mental-health-first-aid-standard-certification/
Yvette will offer you a down to earth, engaging, informative, and supportive training space.
***This event is also available in Eastern, Pacific, Central, Atlantic and Mountain time zones.***
Pre-Approved Vendor for the Government of Canada
For more date options for public or groups: info@mentalhealthtrainer.ca
***Group requesting preferred dates/times & rates for Virtual or In-Person, MHFA (English and French), The Working Mind, MHFA Supporting Older Adults, MHFA Supporting Youth please contact, Canada’s Mental Health Trainer, Yvette: info@mentalhealthtrainer.ca
OUR COURSE OFFERING DESCRIPTIONS:
- MHFA Certification
- MHFA Essentials
- MHFA Standard
- MHFA Face to Face
- MHFA Supporting Youth
- MHFA Supporting Older Adults
- Premiers Soins en Santé Mentale
- The Working Mind
Register for any of our course offering above here: https://mentalhealthtrainer.ca/
Testimonials: https://mentalhealthtrainer.ca/testimonials/
REGISTRATION
Register for this course here: https://mentalhealthtrainer.ca/virtual-mental-health-first-aid-standard-certification/
Please note participants must complete all modules in full to receive their certificate.
All sales are final. No refund for cancellations. As spots are limited your purchase prevents others from that spot. If you are not able to make the course IF there is space available we may offer you a spot at a later date. The minimum age for certification is 18 yrs old. All registrants must participate from an individual device (computer/phone).
Contact Info
Yvette Murray
Email: info@mentalhealthtrainer.ca
Phone: 416-558-3690
Course Overview
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Certification 12 hour course provides the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for participants to recognize changes in mental health, respond supportively, and apply practical actions for declining mental health and crisis situations. It helps participants build confidence, reduce stigma, and enhance their own mental health.
Objectives
MHFA Certification helps participants:
- Increase awareness of mental health
- Distinguish between mental health, mental illness, and mental health conditions.
- Recognize indicators of mental health across the continuum (optimal, declining, poor).
- Understand key information about mental health disorders in Canada. o Identify factors influencing mental health positively and negatively.
- Explain the Two Continua Model of mental health.
- Improve confidence to provide help
- Apply the ALGES framework to scenarios about declining mental health and crisis situations.
- Identify barriers to providing mental health first aid and how to overcome them.
- Ask effective questions to initiate supportive conversations.
- Demonstrate empathy and effective listening skills in supportive interactions.
- Communicate non-judgmentally using verbal and non-verbal skills.
- Provide reassurance and appropriate information in supportive conversations.
- Develop a list of professional, personal, and community resources and supports.
- Explain recovery-oriented approaches to providing support.
- Decrease mental health-related stigma
- Explain mental health stigma, including self-stigma, public stigma, and structural stigma.
- Recognize stigmatizing language and practice respectful alternatives.
- Reflect on personal attitudes and biases that contribute to stigma.
- Understand risks and limitations associated with diagnostic labeling.
- Identify practical strategies to challenge and reduce stigma.
- Enhance mental health
- Identify personal self-care strategies using the Three Pillars of Self Care: reflective, purposeful, and boundaries.
- Recognize when self-care is needed as a Mental Health First Aider and how to integrate it into daily life.
- Commit to intentional self-care actions to maintain personal wellbeing as a Mental Health First Aider.