
Mental Health First Aid Standard
Criteria
At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:
• Recognize signs that a person may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis
• Have conversations that encourage a person to:
- Talk about declines in their mental well-being
- Discuss professional and other supports that could help with recovery toimproved mental well-being
- Reach out to these support
• Assist in a mental health or substance use crisis
• Use MHFA actions to maintain one’s own mental well-being
• Topics: Self Directed (Introduction to the course and MHFA actions), Virtual Classroom (Practice applying MHFA actions to situations of declining mental well-being and Guidelines for MHFA conversations with people from diverse cultures and members of the 2SLGBTQ + community) and Virtual Classroom discussing about using of MHFA actions for self-care and practice using MHFA actions in crisis situations.