Become a Youth Mental Health First Aider with us!
We are offering all our members the exclusive opportunity to complete a four week online Youth Mental Health First Aid course.
The first course starts week commencing January 24th 2022.
Exclusively for SEN Buddy members only!
This course is available at a whopping 25% discount off the usual price if you attend as part of your SEN Buddy membership! RRP £300. Now you can book for 25% off at £225.00 per person!
In this course we will cover
This online course trains you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider, giving you:
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An in-depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing
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Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
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Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress
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Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
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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
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Ability to support a young person with a long term mental health issue or disability to thrive
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Tools to look after your own mental wellbeing
Format
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This is an online course delivered virtually
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Learning takes place through four live training sessions spread across four weeks, with self-learning activities in between. See course structure section below for more detail. The first session will be one evening TBC on week beginning January 24th 2022.
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Each session is built around a Youth Mental Health First Aid action plan
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We limit numbers to 16 people per course so that the instructor can keep people safe and supported while they learn
Takeaways
Everyone who completes the course gets:
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A certificate of attendance to say you are a Youth Mental Health First Aider
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A Youth MHFA manual to refer to whenever you need it
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A workbook including some helpful tools to support your own mental health
