YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID (MHFA) REFRESHER

Refresher courses are available for individuals that have completed a Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course, followed by the completion of an accreditation assessment within the last 3 years.

These courses enable accredited Youth Mental Health First Aiders™ to revise their knowledge and skills, and to extend their accreditation for a further 3 years.

This course gives participants an opportunity to refresh the knowledge and skills learnt during the 12-hour Standard Mental Health First Aid Course. You will:

Gain an understanding of the latest research in the mental health field
Learn the 3 key actions for helping someone feeling suicidal
Work through complex mental health first aid interactions
Practice mental health first aid skills.

This course is recognised by Suicide Prevention Australia as a safe, high-quality, and effective suicide prevention program. Learn more.

What are the timeframes for the course?

Face-to-face - 4 hours

Online - 5 hours

Pricing

This Worth First Aid Training course is available at business locations and also at private residences.

Public course cost: $165 per person

For upcoming public classes please click on this link

For group bookings to come to your organisation for 6 participants or more please Contact us

Customer Testimonies

"This instructor was great, engaging and knowledgeable. He was especially skilled at making us feel like we were in a face to face class. I was never distracted by my email, which is saying something."

"Andrew was an excellent facilitator - explained content clearly, navigated technology and breakout rooms effectively and checked in with participants regularly. He created an open and supportive environment to answer questions and practice skills."

“Andrew was an excellent instructor who brought a positive energy to the course. He ensured participants felt comfortable and ok with the course content. I would definitely recommend Andrew to others.”

"Andrew was a great instructor, it is evident he has a lot of knowledge around mental health and has a passion for passing this knowledge onto the participants of the course."

”Andrew was such an amazing instructor, will highly recommend him to friends”

“Fantastic job! Very engaging! Loved being able to go into different 'online rooms' and do practise/group discussions with others. This type of interaction made it very engaging.”

“As a person who is nervous about icebreakers and group participation, I found this course was still accessible in the least threatening way whilst still ensuring we could cover and practice the content.”

“Appreciated Andrew's use of a variety of technology tools to keep us engaged, along with his sense of humour!”

“Andrew helps to facilitate the training in a collaborative way, he opens the zoom platform up for discussion and makes time for questions throughout.”

"Enjoyed the different ways of involving the learners, such as break out rooms, polls and opportunity for discussion. I enjoyed Andrew's humour!"

“Thanks for being a great instructor and facilitator. Appreciated the time you gave to each subject and questions and also allowed each participant a chance to contribute.”

"Andrew was amazing covered all areas and referred to the Book so we knew what we were learning from relevant and current. Excellent style of teaching"

"Explained tasks well and allowed good time allocations. Managed questions and prompted for answers in a comfortable and timely manner."

"Made me feel comfortable and was very encouraging and funny which made being in groups less nervous."

"Thanks for keeping up entertained and making it easy with technology!"

"Thank you for a great session. The time really flew by."

"Great Course, Highly Interactive and quite a but of new info presented. Very well run, especially as it was on Zoom."

“It was well presented and very knowledgable in the content. Helped to give confidence to us in our ability to provided help in situations.”

“Andrew was happy, cheerful and patient.”

"Brought humor into breakout rooms, which helped ease the seriousness of the content discussed."

"I felt very comfortable asking questions. I thought Andrew added some light humour to lighten the mood of such serious topics."

"Andrew made the course fun and kept it informative and real."

"Easy to re.late to. Easy to understand. Very competent with the content of the course"

"The instructor had an easy manner and covered content well."

"I thoroughly enjoyed the course and the interaction with break out rooms. Content was valuable. Instructor was engaging. Thank you"