Mental Health First Aid® Australia International (MHFAI) is pleased to announce that Krystian Seibert has commenced as new Chair of Board for MHFAI. He takes over the position from Professor Tony Jorm who has been Chair since 2011.
The creation and growth of MHFA Australia since the first MHFA course in Canberra 20 years ago by Betty Kitchener, Founder and former CEO and Tony Jorm, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne.
Mental Health First Aid Australia has welcomed the release of the National Mental Health and Wellbeing Pandemic Response Plan today.
While Australia faces travel restrictions and social distancing to contain the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus), Mental Health First Aid Australia has developed a wholly online course delivery option for the provision of mental health first aid training.
Today is R U OK Day , a national day of action that continues to be an important and influential way to raise awareness around mental health.
We are calling for expressions of interest from people with an intellectual disability, and their carers, who are interested in sharing
their experiences on film for this course.
The theme of this week's National Reconciliation Week 2019 is ‘Grounded in Truth: Walk Together with Courage’.
Share2Care Now is a movement created by founder Markus Winzer, an individual with a desire to create a supportive and caring environment for people who suffer from mental health challenges.
Mental Health First Aid Australia is committed to telling the stories of people with lived experience of mental health problems.
We are looking to licence audio recordings of people with lived experience of mental health problems. We are planning to use these recordings in our new refresher course.
MHFA is looking for participants to take part in a Delphi study to develop Guidelines on considerations when providing mental health first aid to a person with an intellectual disability.