Youth MHFA Course

Key areas covered within the course include:

• Promoting emotional, mental, social and psychological well-being
• Eating Disorders
• Self Harm
• Diversity and equality issues
• Substance/Alcohol misuse
• Suicide
• Child, adolescent and family psychosocial development
• Depression/Anxiety/Psychosis
• Bullying/Cyber bullying
• Promoting protective factors and good parenting

The course has a deliberate fit with national policy and aims to promote the common assessment framework (CAF), Healthy Schools and Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS). It also has a particular focus on vulnerable groups of young people including looked after children (LAC).

The course can be delivered as either two whole days, four half days or as short modular 1-2 hour training sessions for between 8 and 16 participants per course.

More information on Youth MHFA can be found on the MHFA England website.