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What is Youth Mental Health First Aid?

Mental Health First Aid is assistance provided to a person developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis. The first aid is given until appropriate professional treatment is received or until the crisis resolves.

The Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (YMHFA) is designed to train adults to assist young people in mental health crisis situations and/or in the early stages of mental health problems.

At completion of the two day training participants will learn the signs and symptoms of mental health problems affecting young people, where and how to get help and what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective.

The Youth Mental Health First Aid Course is for adults working or living with adolescents.

TRAINING DETAILS:

Date: Thursday 14th & Friday 15th October 2010

Time: 8:45am registrations for a 9:15am start – 4:30pm close (morning & afternoon tea provided, need to BYO lunch)

Venue: Adelaide Northern Division of General Practice: 2 Peachey Road, Elizabeth West

Facilitated by: Rick Thompson – Clinical Practice Consultant

Cost: $50 (inc GST)

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 20 PER WORKSHOP – Limited spaces available!

To express your interest in attending complete this form.

The Family Support and Carer Respite Project being conducted by the Mental Health Coalition of SA Inc is due to be wound up in October 2009. They are seeking to evaluate the project and are seeking feedback from organisations involved to this point. Please give them a call on 8212 8873.

They are also offering free training to respite workers. For further details keep reading.

As part of the project, we are able to offer mental health training to respite workers as this has been identified as a clear need.

Normally this would cost $190 for a full day or $95 for a half day, but with this project we are able to offer this training free of charge for respite workers.

We can offer a limited number of full day or half day training sessions between now and the end of September 2009. Please see the attached flyer for more information. free training for respite workers We can arrange other dates as required.

In order to organise this we need to know how many staff or volunteers you would like to attend the training, whether full day or half day suits your requirements better and the location of staff. We are also keen to organise sessions outside the metro area, to ensure that this training is reaching the widest possible audience.

Also if there are any particular days or weeks when attendance would be difficult, please let us know.

Regards

Geoff Harris

Tracy Leavesley
Office Manager
Mental Health Coalition of SA Inc
408 King William Street
Adelaide 5000
P 08 8212 8873
F 08 8212 8874
www.mhcsa.org.au

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