This is a Delphi study to update the Mental Health First Aid Guidelines for Psychosis. MHFA is looking participants to take part in this research. We are inviting people from Australia, UK, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the USA who have expertise in the field of psychosis to be panel members. This includes people with a lived experience of psychosis, people who have cared for or provided significant support to someone with psychosis, and professionals with research, education or clinical experience related to psychosis.
If you would like more information or are interested in participating please contact Fairlie Cottrill or on +61 3 9079 0207 at Mental Health First Aid Australia.
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This is a Delphi study to update the Mental Health First Aid guidelines for
potentially traumatic events. MHFA is looking participants to take part in this
research. We are inviting people from Australia, UK, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the USA who
have expertise in the field of trauma to be panel members. This includes
people with a lived experience of traumatic events, people who have cared for
or provided significant support to someone after a potentially traumatic event,
and professionals with research, education or clinical experience related to
trauma.
If you would like more information or are interested in participating please
contact Kathryn Chalmers at the University of Melbourne:
kchalmers1@unimelb.edu.au.
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This is a Delphi study to develop guidelines on how to assist a person with
intellectual disability and mental health problems. MHFA is looking participants
to take part in this research. We are inviting people from Australia, UK,
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden
and the USA who have expertise in the field of intellectual
disability and mental illness to be panel members in this research
project. This includes unpaid carers, intellectual disability advocates
and professionals with research, education or clinical experience.
If you would like more information or are interested in participating please
contact  Fairlie Cottrill  or on +61 3 9079 0207 at Mental Health First Aid
Australia.
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This is an evaluation of the Mental Health First Aid for the Suicidal Person course. Knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and confidence in providing assistance to a suicidal person will be assessed before the course, and immediately and six months after the course. If you are an Instructor of this course, please contact Dr Kathy Bond to discuss assisting with recruitment.

This is an evaluation of the Mental Health First Aid for Gambling Problems
course. Knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and confidence in providing assistance to a person with gambling problems will be assessed before the course, and immediately and six months after the course. If you are an Instructor of this course, please contact Dr Kathy Bond to discuss assisting with recruitment.

This is an evaluation of the Mental Health First Aid for Non-suicidal Self-injury
(NSSI) course. Knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and confidence in providing
assistance to a person who is engaging in NSSI will be assessed before the
course, and immediately and six months after the course. If you are an Instructor of this course, please contact Dr Kathy Bond to discuss assisting with recruitment.

This is an evaluation of the Older Person Mental Health First Aid course.
Knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and confidence in providing assistance to an
older person with mental health problems will be assessed before the course,
and immediately and six months after the course. If you are an Instructor of this course, please contact Dr Kathy Bond to discuss assisting with recruitment.

This is a cluster randomised controlled trial of the teen MHFA course with secondary high school students in Years 10-12 in Victorian secondary schools. This study is a collaboration between MHFA Australia, the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global health, University of Melbourne and Australian Red Cross First Aid training program. Funding is from a Nation Health and Medical Research Council. Find out more.

Mental Health First Aid, the University of Melbourne and the QLD Health Deafness and
Mental Health Statewide Consultation Service are conducting a Delphi to development
guidelines on how to provide mental health first aid to a deaf person. This is part of a larger
project to develop a tailored course. For more information contact Danielle Ferndale at QLD
Health: danielle.ferndale@health.qld.gov.au

This project aims to develop and evaluate suicide prevention gatekeeper training courses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and for non-Aboriginal frontline workers, which will empower them to take action to reduce the risk of suicide and self-injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. More specific aims are:

1. To carry out Delphi expert consensus studies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide experts to establish best practice guidelines on how to provide mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander young person who is at risk of suicide or self-injury.
2. To develop gatekeeper training courses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and for non-Aboriginal frontline workers based on the best practice guidelines.
3. To train the existing national network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid (AMHFA) Instructors in the new courses.
4. To evaluate uptake of the new training in terms of roll-out by AMHFA Instructors and factors associated with successful roll-out.
5. To evaluate the impact of the training on community members and frontline workers who work with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander youth in terms of knowledge of how to assist, increased confidence to assist, stigmatizing attitudes and increased first-aid behaviours.
6. To communicate the methodology, the content of the courses, and the results of the evaluation of the program to advocates, representative agencies and ministerial appointed groups that may be involved in suicide prevention in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

This study is being carried out in a partnership between MHFA Australia and the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne with funding from an NHMRC targeted research grant.

This study looks at the effects of 2 delivery models of MHFA training in the workplace with Victorian public servants. It compares a tailored eLearning MHFA courses combined with a face-to-face session (the blended MHFA course), a tailored eLearning MHFA course only and an eLearning Apply First Aid (control condition). The aim is to look at the effects on mental health first aid knowledge, recognition of mental health problems, stigmatising attitudes, supportive behaviour if someone at work develops a mental health problem, confidence in providing this help and participant mental health. The study will look at the effects of the training immediately after, then one year and two year post training. This study is being carried out in a partnership between MHFA Australia and the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne with funding from an NHMRC project grant. See workplaceaid.net.au.

A large randomised controlled trial is being carried out to find out if providing Mental Health First Aid training to parents when their child is in early adolescence has a long-term benefit to their relationship with their child and to the child’s mental health. Mental health first aid training is being compared to Red Cross first aid training as a control. See Training for Parents of Teenagers