3-year Mental Health First Aid Certification

This course is designed for adults (18+ years-old). The 2-day format of the MHFA Certification offers for in-depth, scenario-based training on the identification and support of declining mental health and crises, and provides a deeper understanding of mental health disorders and influences.

We offer public and private courses. If you would like to organize a training, please contact us.

Adults who Interact with Youth Mental Health First Aid, Certificate

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, Certificate

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.

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

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.

Customized workshops are a powerful, cost-effective way to provide mental health training tailored to your specific needs.

This workshop explores co-regulation (a popular buzz word on social media and parenting platforms right now! so that we can better understand what it is, why it isn’t just “being calm,” and how we can build regulation skills with intention and compassion.

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.

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 the emotion of anxiety, how it is accommodated, and strategies to support someone struggling.

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.

Customized workshops are a powerful, cost-effective way to provide mental health training tailored to your specific needs.

Just Pay Attention! (and other things we say that aren’t always helpful)

As adults (especially parents and teachers), we play a significantly role in helping kids develop their internal dialogue and sense of self - am I smart? do I fit in? can I do hard things?

Kids face a tremendous amount of pressure to be really good at a lot of things (almost everything) when they’re in school, AND they’re asked to do this within a very specific learning model. But for kids who struggle with aspects of attention, these demands can start to feel really, really hard.

This presentation explores common behaviours that develop with attentional challenges and provides strategies that parents and teachers can use to help.

This workshop explores behaviours from a place of curiosity. If we can see big, impulsive, explosive behaviours, as the externalization of a dysregulated nervous system that has missed meeting an expectation, then we can work to build empathy and curiosity to better understand why a student might be reacting this way.

At school, big reactions are often the result of a discrepancy between expectations and ability, often due to over-stimulation, insecurity, and/or learning challenges. So, if behaviour is the expression, then by looking behind the behaviour we might be able to better understand the need.

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

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.

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.

Customized workshops are a powerful, cost-effective way to provide mental health training tailored to your specific needs.

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

This workshop explores the alignment between personal and organizational values, challenges misconceptions about self-care, and gives you the tools to effectively protect yourself and the meaningful work that you do.

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.”

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.

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!