Would you like to learn how to safely, helpfully and confidently support and talk about mental health and mental illnesses? Or would you like to learn how to support someone who is feeling suicidal?
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will teach you practical skills to support someone with a mental health problem.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) “Conversations about Suicide” training will teach you practical skills to support someone who is feeling suicidal.
Both of these trainings will help improve knowledge of mental illnesses, treatments and first aid actions, increase confidence in providing first aid, decrease stigma and increase the support provided to others.
mental health families and friends Tasmania, through funding from Mental Health Council Tasmania’s Community Wellbeing Grants program, is pleased to offer TWO Conversations About Suicide training and ONE Mental Health First Aid training to the Sorell/Tasman Community.
These series of courses will be delivered in 2021 by Bec Thomas from Rising Kind.
The dates are:
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SUICIDE: June 5th 2021 – 9:30 am to 2pm at
Sorell memorial Hall, 47 Cole St, Sorell
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID: Thursday 10th and Thursday 17nd June 2021 – 9:30 am to 4:30pm at
Okines Community House Inc, 540 Old Forcett Rd, Dodges Ferry TAS 7173
To register or for more information, you can email, call, or follow this link to register.
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