Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses teach people simple, practical first aid skills for helping a family member, friend, or co-worker who is experiencing mental health problems.
MHFA courses will teach you how to listen and respond to someone with a mental health problem, even if they are experiencing a crisis.
You'll learn how to help someone access:
MHFA courses actively reduce stigma in your community, by providing students resources to respond appropriately to myths and misunderstandings about mental illness.
Mental Health First Aid courses are offered at Charles Sturt University as blended online learning modules with MHFA Australia.
The Blended online Health Professional Student courses includes two components.
The first component comprises eLearning which is to be completed online via registration to MHFA Australia. CSU provides you with all of the information when you book, so there is no need to contact MHFA Australia for eLearning.
The second component involves attendance at two 2.5 hour workshops presented online via zoom or 1 x four hour workshop with one of our Charles Sturt staff, trained as a Mental Health First Aid Instructors.
There has been some funding through the Australian Council of Deans to fully fund the MHFA course for students who are enrolled in Allied Health and courses only.
All other courses (eg MHFA Tertiary) is $100. Both the Health Professional and Tertiary Courses meet any work placement requirements.
To book into a workshop, go to the Charles Sturt workshops and events page and select 'Health & Wellbeing' to refine your search.
See dates and register for the Blended Online Tertiary MHFA workshop
Once your payment has been received through Humanitix, you will be contacted by one of our staff and issued with instructions on how to enrol with MHFA and workshop instructions.
It is mandatory to fully complete the eLearning component prior to attending online workshops. This eLearning component includes 6 modules which take approximately 5 hours to complete online.
Once you have received your booking notification, please mark this date in your calendar. The free courses fill very quickly and we may not be able to swap you into another date for some time.