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

Help young people navigate mental health challenges with understanding and support. This course was developed with input from educators, caregivers, and mental health experts to meet the unique needs of youth aged 12-24. It offers practical tools to help adults recognize when a young person may be struggling and provides guidance on how to offer meaningful support. By focusing on the challenges and pressures faced by youth today, the program empowers participants to foster understanding, build trust, and promote resilience in the young people they care for 

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 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

*an advanced level training is available by request

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

What IS burnout? And how can we best protect ourselves?

We will help you identify some major misconceptions remove the burden off of you to solve the problem and give you the tools to effectively protect yourself and the meaningful work that you do

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 training & workshop is designed to support adults who live and/or work with young people.

Participants learn how to use the PACE method to build connections, navigate challenging emotions, and support communication.

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.”

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 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 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.