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Youth MHFA is an internationally recognised training programme designed specifically for those people who teach, work, live with or care for young people aged 11 - 18.

Delivered by a trainer from the Family Matters Institute the course provides information, tools and techniques to promote a young person's mental and emotional wellbeing and to enable participants to support a young person who might be experiencing mental and emotional distress.

The Youth MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Why it is important

• 1 in 10 young people experience emotional and mental health problems
• By the time young people become adults the incidence of mental health problems rises to somewhere between 1 in 4 and 1 in 6 people
• For those aged 15-24 suicide is the second most common cause of death
• There is evidence to suggest early intervention is hugely beneficial

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 local & 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 training also promotes the use of substance misuse screening tools.

http://www.mhfaengland.org/youth-mhfa/

To book click here (please note you will be redirected to the Family Matters Institute website to complete this booking)