Youth Mental Health First Aid

Program featuresIn this 14-hour YMHFA course, topics covered include: developing mental health problems, depression, anxiety problems, psychosis, eating disorders and substance use problems, as well as suicide and other mental health crises.Participants are eligible to become an accredited Mental Health First Aider.

What you will learn?

Participants will learn about adolescent development and the signs and symptoms of mental health problems, how and where to get help and what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective.

Who can attend?
The YMHFA course teaches adults who have frequent contact with adolescents, such as parents, guardians, school staff, sport coaches and youth workers, how to assist adolescents who are developing a mental health problem, experiencing a worsening of a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis.

This two-day course teaches adults how to assist adolescents who are developing a mental health problem. Typically, attendees are parents, guardians, school staff, sport coaches and youth workers.