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This training aims to help family and friends supporting a loved one with lived experience of mental health problems, further developing understanding and approaches, to create the best possible environment that supports everyone’s emotional and mental wellbeing.

Supporters who come on the course have usually been caring for over year and are looking to enhance the way they provide support. The training consists of four sessions of 2 hours for family and friends who support someone with a mental health need.

Delivered Via Zoom. This training provides volunteers with a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities in preventing and responding to suspected and actual abuse

What is abuse, what are the signs of abuse, what should you do if you think someone is at risk?

This core training that every volunteer should receive.    

Provided by St Mungo's

An opportunity to develop or hone your conversational skills to help people reflect on a problem, make positive decisions, and take smart steps towards achieving their goal.  Delivered by St Mungo's & Virgin Care.     

This will be a digital workshop where you will learn about every day first aid. The aim is to build confidence so you can help someone in a first aid emergency, using the objects that you have around you. These sessions are specifically aimed at adults.

Delivered via Zoom. Connect 5 takes the position that we don’t need to be mental health specialists to support those who are experiencing emotional and mental health problems. Attendees have the option to sign up to session 2 and 3 in the future.

Connect 5 promotes a whole-person approach to mental health and wellbeing. Devised by Public Health England it forms a key part of the national mental health.

The ultimate aim of applying the knowledge and tools contained within Connect 5 is to break cycles of spiraling negativity early and start cycles of positive thought, feeling and experience instead. 

This course aims to build your confidence, increasing your skills and options in delivering training over Zoom. It includes creating and launching polls, screen sharing, white boards and more. A full oulining of the course is in the description.