BECOME A MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDER
If you’ve taken a physical first aid course; you’ve learned the skills needed to help someone experiencing a sudden illness or injury.
People can also have mental health crisis, and it is important that more Canadians know how to provide help in these situations too.
Mental Health First Aid is offered to someone with an emerging mental health problem or in a mental health crisis until appropriate treatment is found or the situation is resolved.
Register now to become a Mental Health First Aider:
Course Name: MHFA for Individuals Who Interact With Youth (Virtual)
Description: Short on time but have always wanted to take a Mental Health First Aid course? This is the course for you! This 10 hour online Mental Health First Aid course is made up of three modules: a two hour asynchronous module to be completed on your own prior to the course, followed by two- 4 hour synchronous classes via Collaborate Ultra.
Venue & Address: Online
Students will be emailed the meeting link as well as a code to access the two hour online module to be completed prior to the course.
Check out the upcoming courses box below to find the next availability for this course.
To Register, Contact: Please call Portage College Continuing Education Department (780) 623-5631
Please note: Course may not run unless a minimum of 10 participants are registered.
What you can expect from this course:
- Gain the confidence and skills to engage someone with an emerging mental health problem or in a mental health crisis;
- Greater recognition of mental health problems;
- Decreased stigma; and
- Improved mental health for yourself.
We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.