Our Services
Mental Health Education Victoria offers Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training and tailored mental health education to create thriving communities, schools, tertiary institutions and workplaces. Our mission is to raise the mental health literacy of communities through education, empowering them to thrive. Our mental health courses can be contextualised to suit your school or workplace, giving participants the strategies and confidence to assist within your unique setting. The content is practical, and evidence based.
About
Mental Health Education Victoria provides mental health training and education workshops for businesses, schools and community groups across Victoria.
Our staff create opportunities for discussion, education and action on mental health concerns that affect people every day.
We aim to promote a better understanding of mental health issues and how we can prevent and respond to them. We understand the power of a simple conversation and want to empower individuals with the tools needed to respond in their communities.
Our face to face or online courses in mental health, resilience and wellbeing, teach managers, staff and volunteers how to prevent, recognise and respond to common mental health problems and reduce the risk of psychological injuries through a strengths-based approach.
Juliette Coyne
Director and Senior Facilitator
Meet Juliette
Juliette has a passion for building capacity within communities to respond to mental health concerns. Her extensive clinical and facilitation expertise enables Juliette to deliver courses that are deeply informative, useful, engaging and responsive to the needs of each training group.
With a career spanning over 20 years, Juliette’s professional experiences as a qualified Social Worker, Counsellor and Teacher has seen her gain experience in a plethora of roles, including psycho education, mentoring, strategic planning, leadership, training and individual and group therapy.
Her experience spans over many sectors including public health, community health, government, non-government organisations and independent and public education sectors.
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Mental Health First Aid
What is Mental Health First Aid?
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is designed to teach you how to give initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health problem or worsening mental illness. The course also covers what to do if someone is experiencing a mental health crisis.
By participating in the MHFA course, you will learn how to assist someone experiencing a common mental illness. You will also learn how to help someone who might be experiencing a worsening of an existing mental health problem or a mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received, or the crisis resolves.
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Course participants learn about the signs and symptoms of the common and disabling mental health problems, how to provide initial help, where and how to get professional help, what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective, and how to provide first aid in a crisis situation.