Mental Health First Aid Course
Mental Health First Aid Ireland with funding from the HSE and in partnership with Connect Mental Health are running a Mental Health First Aid Course on Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th December for the Donegal community. The course will take place in The Mount Errigal Hotel and runs over two consecutive days from 9.30am – 4.00pm and we have a limited number of HSE sponsored places available, the normal cost of this course is €300 per person.
Dates: Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th December
This is a two day course
Venue: The Mount Errigal Hotel, Ballyraine, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Time: 9.30am – 4.00pm on both days
Cost: Complimentary. Limited number of HSE sponsored places available (The normal cost is €300 per person)
Total places on course: This course is limited to 20 people in order to maintain an optimal learning environment.
How Do I Register
Click on the below ‘Book Your Place’ Button and proceed to the booking page. Complete your details.
Places are limited and if for any reason you have to cancel please allow 5 working days so that your place can be offered to a person on the waiting list.
What is Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is the help offered to someone developing a mental health problem, experiencing the worsening of an existing mental health problem, or in a mental health crisis. The first aid is given until appropriate professional support is received or until the crisis resolves.
Mental Health First Aid teaches participants how to recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health problems and understand what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective. Participants will learn a framework for communication, how to offer and provide initial help, and how to guide a person towards appropriate treatments and other supportive help.
Mental Health First Aid training has been shown to improve attitudes towards people with mental health difficulties, reduce stigma, improve knowledge, and improve people’s confidence in providing help and likelihood to advise people to seek professional help.
Who is it for
Mental health first aid is for everyone. We all have mental health just like we all have physical health. And we could all have the ability to help someone when they may be experiencing a mental health difficulty. You don’t have to be an expert to talk to someone about mental health but Mental Health First Aid has been proven to give individuals more confidence to help others.
Mental health first aid has the potential to help those who may, in their daily lives, come across individuals experiencing mental health difficulties.
This could include people such as those in the caring professions, social care, interested family carers, and line managers, HR personnel, foster parents, pharmacists, teachers or Gardaí. The potential list is endless.
In order to participate in this training course you must be aged 18 or over, and be ordinarily resident in the Republic of Ireland.
What is Involved
The course takes place over 2 consecutive days from 9.30am – 4.00pm. Attendance at both days is required. The course is sponsored by the HSE(the fee is covered by HSE) and will be held at The Mount Errigal Hotel.
Course participants receive a copy of the MHFA manual and a Certificate of completion.
The course is delivered over two days or in four 3-hour modules. Facilitated by MHFA Instructors, who are health professionals and/or have life experience of mental health problems, this face-to-face training is focused on new knowledge and skills and how they can be applied in a workplace setting. The course format caters for various learning styles providing opportunities to participate and practice skills using workplace case-studies, videos and resources tailored to their learning needs.
With Funding from the HSE Mental Health Division:
HSE
