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Adults who Interact with Youth Mental Health First Aid

This course is designed to support adults who interact with youth, ages 14-25 years-old, although its learning outcomes are applicable to all ages. It offers information and case scenarios about the most common mental health disorders and youth-specific concerns: Substance-related disorders, mood-related disorders, anxiety and trauma-related disorders, psychotic disorders, feeding and eating disorders, and deliberate self-injury.

We offer public and private courses. If you would like to organize a training, please contact us.

Supporting Youth mental health first aid

This course is designed for members of the public who interact with youth, ages 12-24 years-old and is most relevant for situations when it is first becoming apparent to an adult that a young person in their family, classroom, or other network is developing a mental health problem.

We offer private and public courses. If you would like to organize a training, please contact us.

Customized workshops are a powerful, cost-effective way to provide mental health training tailored to your specific needs.

This 3-hour interactive foundational workshop provides participants with a foundational understanding of core mental health topics:

• An understanding of emotions

• Anxiety & Mood Disorders

• Suicidal ideation

• Intervention and de-escalation technqniues and strategies

This 3-hour interactive advanced workshop builds on the Foundations course to include a deeper understanding of mental health conditions and intervention:

• Post-traumatic stress disorders and developmental trauma

• Common maladaptive coping strategies (non-suicidal self-injury and substance use)

• Ways to support and redirect dysregulated individuals

• Care and decompression techniques for individuals and teams

This workshop is designed to help professional teams respond to challenging clients / system-users.

Each section is tailored to your team’s specific needs and challenges, and addresses:

• recognizing and assessing a mental health crisis.

• ways to respond with support.

• decompression strategies for care of self.

• building a debrief system for your team.

This interactive workshop is designed to provide team members with the knowledge they need to confidently support dysregulated and/or emotionally vulnerable clients, and strategies to support personal and team member well-being.

Topics include:

• General overview of emotion regulation and de-escalation strategies.

• When to be concerned for personal or another’s safety.

• Managing and ending uncomfortable conversations.

• Strategies to intervene and support colleagues.

• Decompressing after difficult interactions and conversations.

• Strategies for “leaving work at work.”

Trauma has a significant impact on brain development and often presents as behavioral and emotional dysregulation, and inattention.

In this training, educators explore implications of trauma within educational settings with a specific focus on:

• Understanding trauma's influence on brain development

• recognizing behavioral and emotional dysregulation

• addressing classroom challenges:

• effective response strategies

Peer relationships play an integral role in our social, emotional and cognitive development, but what happens when a child/teen's peer group shifts from protective to harmful?

This interactive workshop is designed to provide educators with strategies to support the development and maintenance of healthy classroom and school social circles.

Topics include:

• a research-based overview of brain development and gender differences during critical developmental periods.

• strategies to set up for success: early classroom activities to foster healthy peer relationships.

• recognizing and assessing when peer dynamics have become problematic.

• strategies to intervene: preventative and reactive ways to nurture peer conflict with empathy and building skill development.

We all likely witness young people in our lives struggling with anxious thoughts and feelings, and when we see them struggle it is natural to want to help. But what happens when our helping turns into accommodating?

This workshop explores:

• anxiety: what it is, where it comes from, and what we might see in a young person

• accommodated anxiety

• what to do when accommodations support avoidance

• strategies for supporting anxiety

• and more!

When we compare ourselves to others, our self-identity becomes a shifting reaction to the success (or failures) or others. But, if we can see ourselves from a place of self-compassion, we can develop a sense-of-self that is stable and independent of others.

This workshop explores these concepts and strategies we can use to help young people develop a compassionate sense of self.

This 1.5-hour workshop explores strategies to support tough transitions through the concepts of Separation Distress and Restraint Collapse: what they are, why they happen, and what we can do to help.

This workshop includes a resource bundle, which can also be purchased separately in our Resource Shop.

This 1.5-hour workshop explores co-regulation (a popular buzz word on social media parenting platforms right now!) so that we can better understand what it is and strategies to help us stay calm in the face of big emotions.

This workshop includes a resource bundle, which can also be purchased separately in our Resource Shop.