Haringey Council is rolling out free two-day Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training for schools, which will provide staff with the skills and confidence to spot early signs of mental health needs in a young person, offer mental health ‘first aid’ and, if appropriate, guide them towards other support they may need.
The provision of this training is part of the Mayor of London’s programme to ensure that every school in London has at least one Youth Mental Health First Aider. More information can be found in the attached leaflet.
If you would like a member of staff to benefit from this free training, they need to:
- email healthy.schools@haringey.gov.uk with their name, role and email address;
- select one of the groups as their preferred option;
- identify a second group as back-up, as some of the groups are now filling up.
The groups will be delivered on:
- Friday 7 June and Friday 14 June
- Monday 17 June and Tuesday 18 June
- Thursday 20 June and Friday 21 June
- Thursday 26 September and Thursday 3 October
Every effort will be made to meet preferred options, but courses will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Depending on interest, we may be able to offer more than one place to those on the waiting list, but this is not guaranteed.
All training will take place from 9am to 5pm at Hornsey School for Girls and will be delivered by professionals from Haringey Council and Whittington Health NHS Trust.