Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid teaches the skills needed to recognize and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges, as well as how to provide someone with initial support until they are connected with the appropriate professional help.

Participants who successfully complete this course will learn:

• What is mental Health?
• Prevalence of mental health issues.
• Recovery
• Stigma & Discrimination
• Factors that influence mental health- including those in the workplace.
• Depression & Anxiety
• Eating Disorders, Self Harm, Psychosis & Substance Misuse.
• Early Warning signs of ill Mental Health.
• Supporting People in Crisis
• Building a Mentally Healthy Workplace.

PowerPoint presentation

Have good command of English Language

1 Day

10

Successful participants will receive a Safetech certificate.

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.