If someone in your organisation, community, or business was in the midst of a mental health crisis or experiencing an emerging mental illness, would you know what to do?
accredited to deliver an award winning and internationally recognised Mental Health First Aid®courseS for over 11 years.
Would you know how to assist someone with a developing mental health issue or in a crisis situation such as having suicidal thoughts and/or behaviours?
Why do you need to learn Mental Health First Aid?
Mental health issues are more common than you think. In Australia about 1 in 5 people will suffer a mental health condition. It is very important that as members of the public we are able to learn ways to assist someone developing a mental health problem or who is in a mental health crisis.
Mental health emergencies can strike anyone at anytime, although many people are able to recognize the issue and may try to help, without proper training and support sometimes it can make someone feel helpless when a crisis situation occurs.
Whether it is for yourself, family, community or the workplace, becoming a skilled mental health first aider is the best investment you can make.
What you will learn on the Mental Health First Aid Course?
Mental health first aid is an evidence-based training course authored by Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Australia and delivered by accredited MHFA Instructors across the country and in selected countries overseas. Psyched Solutions Instructors are licensed to deliver the courses by MHFA Australia.
Like physical first aid, mental health first aid is given until the person receives professional help or until the crisis resolves. You will learn to identify the early warning signs and symptoms and we will help you to understand the actions you need to take to support someone and where you can go to get professional help.
Content:
Mental health problems in Australia
Actions of mental health first aid
Depression
Anxiety
Psychosis
Substance misuse
Crisis situations covered:
Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
Non-suicidal self-injury
Panic attack
Following traumatic event
Severe psychotic states
Acute effects of alcohol misuse and drug misuse
Aggressive behaviours
Who should attend the training?
Anyone 18 years old and above can attend this course. The strategies taught in Mental Health First Aid are also particularly useful for frontline staff including:
Human Resources Professionals
Security
Work Place Health and Safety Staff
Managers and Supervisors
Other Health Professionals
Please note Mental Health First Aid Course has been endorsed for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points for a number of professions including:
Nursing (i.e., midwives, mental health, practice nurses), pharmacy, fitness, chiropractic, and physiotherapy.
Attendance can be claimed as CPD by: psychologists, social workers, teacher, dieticians, speech pathologists, audiologists/audiometrists and lawyers in some states and territories of Australia
Accreditation as a Mental Health First Aider
A manual and certificate of completion is provided to each participant attending the course, along with useful mental health resources. If you successfully complete your accreditation test (done after completion of the course), you will be accredited as Mental Health First Aider.
How much it Costs
Your investment is from $300 per person (Refresher Course only $150 per person). Book your space here today or contact us at sharon@psyhedsolutions.com.au to register your interest.
Face to Face delivery - onsite
We have capacity to come to you and deliver the training for your staff onsite. There are a number of benefits to holding a mental health first aid training course onsite. It reduces administrative and logistical time and effort on scheduling various employees, thus allowing employees to remain in a risk-free environment of your office. Empower staff with knowledge and skills, adding value to your organisation. Lower costs, which saves your organisation costs of travel, accommodation and other costs.
We also often hold public courses in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. You can send a number of staff to attend these courses with us. See our upcoming schedule of courses here.
Please note: Face-to-face MHFA training is run over 2 days. Each day includes 6 hours of content, with breaks for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
You must complete both sessions to be eligible for the accreditation assessment and certificate.
Online MHFA courses
Online MHFA training includes self directed e-learning and live virtually run classes via zoom.
The self directed e-learning takes approximately 5-7 hours to complete. The live virtual classes are conducted via Zoom, in 2 sessions. Each session is approximately 2.5 hours in length, for a total of 5 hours.
The course fee for online MHFA training is $250 per person. Please note that this price is currently subsidised by MHFA Australia. The rebate is due to end shortly, so please get in contact if you would like more information.
Benefits of online MHFA training:
Self-paced leaning
Pre-class consolidation
Convenient
Accessible
Flexible
Caters to any location
Online booking
'In the USA, former First Lady Michelle Obama gave a resounding endorsement to Mental Health First Aid course recently saying "I believe every member of the community, every organization and business need to do this course in order to learn what to do to support someone with a mental health condition. "Read here about former FLOTUS support for this course here .
Event hosting, public and motivational speaker
Psyched Solutions founder Sharon Orapeleng's life story is that of incredible resilience, hardwork, passion and service to others. From a small dusty farm village in the southern part of Botswana to a well recognized and accomplished community leader, advocate, mental health professional and philanthropist at her new home in Brisbane, Queensland, she inspires many. She has dedicated her life to causes very close to her heart including;
reducing stigma around mental health issues after being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (following a very traumatic event in her life),
domestic violence (after living with a close family member who was a victim of domestic violence at 10 yrs old),
breast cancer awareness and fundraising (mother is a breast cancer survivor and she lost a close relative to breast cancer)
women and youth empowerment and capacity building
leadership development and mentoring
Social inclusion and justice
Her ability to turn her wounds into wisdom inspires hope and healing to many and has made her a sought after public and motivational speaker and event host. Her quest to find the right formula to understanding human behaviour and overcoming adversities saw her excelling at university with degrees in Psychology and Neuro Science (Latrobe University, Melbourne), Post Graduate Diploma and Masters in Behaviour Management (Bond University, Gold Coast). She also trained and accredited in Neurofeedback (an effective tool to help people with a variety of disorders including ADHD, learning difficulties, depression, sleep disturbances, anxiety etc.
So what is the right formula? Sharon says it is about " changing your perception" .
To partner with Sharon for your upcoming event, contact us here.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORING
We support community organisations to effective and efficient in meeting the needs of their members. We provide governance training such as:
Establishing a community organisation
Project Planning and Management
Grant Writing and Reporting
Strategic Planning
Event Management
Stakeholder Engagement
We are also passionate about mentoring young leaders to strengthen their capacity to identify and take on leadership opportunities.
CULTURAL /DIVERSITY CONSULTANCY
We have experience in working effectively with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in both government and non-government sectors roles with focus in capacity building, community development, improving service access and equity as well as using cultural competency principles to develop training for organisations and businesses.
We believe the increasing multicultural diversity of Australia presents a very unique opportunity for creativity and innovation for organisations and businesses to support inclusion and participation of new and emerging communities as well as settled migrants in order to achieve a cohesive and contributing communities.
Take the opportunity of the 30 minute obligation free consultation to discuss how we can meet your needs by clicking here