Help champion youth mental health
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is an internationally recognised training course, designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help to young people on a first aid basis.
East Kent Mind’s quality assured trainers can deliver this course face-to-face at our Canterbury training centre, online or in your workplace. This can be delivered as a two-day course or over four half days.
Completing our two day course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider. Youth Mental Health First Aiders have:
- An in depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors
that affect wellbeing. - Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues.
- Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress.
- Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening.
- 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.
- Ability to support a young person with a long term mental health issue or disability to thrive.
- Tools to look after your own mental wellbeing.
The course is delivered in four manageable chunks:
- About mental health
- Depression and anxiety
- Suicide and psychosis
- Self-harm and eating disorders
It focuses on the issues faced by young people today, such as cyber bullying and substance misuse, and teaches how to promote protective factors and good parenting.
Everyone who completes the course gets a Youth MHFA manual to refer to whenever they need it, and a certificate to say they are a Youth Mental Health First Aider.
Cost: £200 per person with discount available for group bookings. Sessions run for two full days or four half days and are available face-to-face at our Canterbury training centre, online or in your workplace.
Please email lynnehallowell@eastkentmind.org.uk to discuss your needs.
