Mental Health Connect
Mental Health Connect - Mental Health Skills for Community Workers
This is essential training for every community worker!
•As a community worker would you like to know more about mental health?
•Do you have ongoing contact with people with mental health issues?
•Do you need more skills in supporting people with mental health issues?
•Would you like to know how you can support recovery?
This program aims to offer knowledge and skills to help you better understand and support people with mental health issues.
Key learning modules of the Mental Health Connect program include:
•Connecting to Life - the Recovery framework
•Connecting with the mental health system
•Connecting using tools, techniques and strategies to provide support to individuals
This 2 day interactive workshop is designed to promote workplace skill development. It includes information on recovery, duty of care, dignity of risk, signs and symptoms, goal setting, building self efficacy, interviewing techniques and self care.
This course is suitable for existing workers in community organisations who support people with mental health issues including:
•Community workers
•Family workers
•Youth workers
•Disability workers
•AOD workers
•Health workers
•Aged care workers
•Employment support workers
•Children's services workers
•Housing and tenancy workers
•Case managers
•Intake workers
•Community development workers
•Pastoral care workers
•Front line supervisors
•Team leaders
•Program managers
•Coordinators
•And other community workers