Mental Health First Aid

To book a course, choose your date and download a booking form.

Complete and send back to us either by email: mhfa@harp-project.org

or post to: MHFA@HARP, Zion Community Resource Centre, 339 Stretford Road, Hulme, Manchester, M15 4ZY.

The following dates are available to book:

Date: 25th & 26th October 2010

Venue: Inspire, 747 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 3AR.

Availability: Good

More dates will be added to this list soon.

Download a booking form

For further information email mhfa@harp-project.org

We can also provide in-house training to your organisation for up to 16 people.

Cost

Open Access Courses

Voluntary and Community Sector	£140 per person
Statutory and Private Companies	£200 per person

We hope to be able to provide a number of subsidised places for volunteers and service users, please contact us in order to check availability.

Venue and buffet lunch will be provided.

In House Courses (max of 14 participants)

If room and venue provided	£1250
If room and venue are not provided	£1840

Please contact us at mhfa@harp-project.org if you wish to discuss arranging an in house course.

Who should take the training course?

As one in four of us is likely to experience some form of mental health problem in any year, everyone could benefit from this training.

However, there might be some key groups who would particularly benefit from this training including groups who work in:

- Ambulance service

- Police force

- Prison service

- Job centre plus

- Primary health and social care

- Higher education

- Support workers

- Voluntary and community groups

- Managers , particularly those with HR responsibilities or those with large supervisory workloads.

Where are we up to with training?

Since October 2009 we have delivered 4 open access courses and 2 in-house courses, to a wide variety of people from service users and volunteers to workers from both statutory and voluntary sector organisations.  We have had a very positive response and some of the comments can be seen below:

"some excellent information.  Raised a lot of questions for me in terms of current mental health provision."

I will… " implement this in my work through assessments and look more at holistic support not just at a medical model."

I will …."review how I support vulnerable people and be implementing changes."

The video clips were "useful as a tool, it gathered the information and presented it in real life."

"really useful sessions, good and really thought provoking."

"re-educated me about mental health problems and this will help me in my role."