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Mental Health First Aid Refresher – Online March 2025
Online
20 March 2025 - 21 March 2025
10:30 am - 1:00 pm AEDT
Online
2 x 2.5 hrs.
Cath Ashton
| Topic | Mental Health & Resilience, People & Culture | |
| Type | Workshop | |
| CPD | 5 - Professional Skills | |
| Pricing | AUD $160 |
| Full Member | AUD $145 |
| Online Member | AUD $145 |
| Affiliate | AUD $145 |
| Associate Member | AUD $145 |
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Cath Ashton
The refresher course allows people who have previously completed a Mental Health First Aid course to refresh their knowledge and skills. The course also offers Accredited MHFAiders an opportunity to extend their accreditation for a further 3 years.
This course is a 2 x 2.5-hour virtual workshop session that teaches managers, supervisors and individuals how to assist a co-worker who might be developing a mental health problem or is experiencing a mental health crisis. This course is suitable for anyone who has completed a mental health first aid course within the past 3 years.
THIS COURSE WILL HELP YOU:
· Gain an understanding of the latest research in the mental health field
· Learn the 3 key actions for helping someone feeling suicidal
· Work through complex mental health first aid interactions
· Practice mental health first aid skills
Participant numbers are limited to a maximum of 12. Book now to secure your place.
A forfeit of registration fees applies with less than two weeks’ notice of registration cancellation.
Please see Payment & Cancellation policy for more details. If you wish to reschedule to a later date you are required to provide two weeks’ notice for no additional cost to be incurred.
We are unable to refund your course fees if you cancel and provide less than two weeks’ notice.
If you wish to transfer to an alternate date and provide less than two weeks’ notice, you will be charged $100 administration fee.
Presented by
Cath Ashton
Principal Master Instructor Mental Health First Aid
Cert IV Training & Assessment
Diploma Neurolinguistic Programming
Sports Chaplain
Cath has worked in the setting of mental health since 2001 in UK and Australia and is proud to be a Principal Master Instructor for Mental Health First Aid working with MHFA since 2014.
Her work in suicide prevention in communities and conducting Psychological Autopsies (UK), workforce health and health promotion has engaged her with metro, regional and remote communities throughout Australia and the UK. She has worked for the Victoria Police Forensic Mental Health team, headspace, and in the settings of youth mental health, education, eating disorders, oil & gas and the WA resource industries, stakeholders, local government, not-for-profit and the corporate sector.
Her passion is the continued education of mental health in reducing stigma and raising awareness of mental health. Cath has contributed to feasibility studies for mental health in the workforce, mining sectors and communities
