Mental Health First Aid Lite

Our Mental Health First Aid Lite course is intended for all employees and colleagues. It provides awareness of Mental Health issues and how they may be affected. It promotes understanding and support for colleagues.

This course does not qualify a person as a Mental Health First Aider (Please see our Mental Health First aider course). It should, however, be considered an essential course for all employees of an organisation that values the personal well-being of all colleagues.

The aims and objectives of the course, include enabling participants to:

1. gain a wider understanding, for themselves and others, of some issues surrounding mental health
2. gain a greater understanding of how and why positive and negative mental health affects business
3. work more effectively with people experiencing mental health problems

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

1. identify the discrimination surrounding mental health problems
2. define mental health & some mental health problems
3. relate to people's experiences
4. help support people with mental health problems
5. look after their own mental health

On completion of the course, all participants will receive an MHFA manual and certificate of attendance. The courses are delivered by an Approved MHFA Instructor who has completed a seven-day programme accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health.