This two-day course (choose from face-to-face or online) trains you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider (MHFAider®), giving you:

• 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.

Each session is built around a Youth Mental Health First Aid action plan.

You will receive:

• A certificate of attendance to say you are a Youth MHFAider®
• A YouthMHFAider® manual to refer to whenever you need it
• A workbook including some helpful tools to support your own mental health
• A HelloHope Digital Badge to display across your website, email and social media channels