"I was too afraid to take up too much space in other people's minds, other people's lives," explains the mental health first-aider. "The people who really care for you will never think that you're too much." She says the first step should be to validate your own feelings...
Statistics fromMindtells us that mental ill-health costs UK employers an estimated £42 – £45 billion each year. But training staff in Mental Health First Aid can support early intervention, improve the mental wellbeing of staff and reduce these losses. Equally, positive mental health in t...
We offer on-site mental health first aid training for groups of 12 to 20 people. You set the date. You set the time. We come to you. It’s delivered by mental health care experts from Health Assured—the UK’s most trusted health and wellbeing network. They teach you how to: •...
Sinead McCafferty Programme Manager & Mental Health First Aider Charlotte Cuenot Policy and Partnerships Manager & Internal Workplace Wellbeing Lead Pete Wells Head of Risk and Standards Dave Alstead Head of Member Experience Chris Foster Head of Learning and Development Harriett Jones Head of...
Ken goes on to talk about the benefits of becoming a Mental Health First Aider, “The last couple of years have been tough. We have noticed that more people than ever are coming forward to say they feel lonely and isolated. The training from Mental Health First Aid ...
As part of our commitment to support the wellbeing of our colleagues and be the best employer we can be, Yusen have introduced a network of Mental Health first aiders across the workplace. Like a Physical Health First Aider, a Mental Health First Aider acts as a point of contact for ...
It’s a volunteer-run organisation, which also officially became a registered UK charity in 2021 after having first formed in 2020. To be clear, training to be a mental health first aider doesn’t mean you’re on the path to becoming a counsellor or therapist—rather, you’re a person ...
to make the six high-level objectives of last year's mental health strategy No health without mental health a reality.2Mental ill health is estimated to cost British businesses almost ￡30bn (€39bn; $47bn) across the UK economy a year—mostly because of lost production from staff being ...
trained in Mental Health First Aid skills has also been published to support the Role of the Mental Health First Aider. This covers the boundaries and responsibilities of those qualified at different levels; as Mental Health First Aiders, Mental Health First Aid Champions and Mental Health Aware....
Our MD, Katy Davies discussed the topic of Mental Health and being a trained Mental Health First Aider (MHFA for short) saying ‘I’m a firm believer that we directors and senior managers should lead on wellbeing from the front and by example’. Our MHFA team used training material from ...