Shona Bass joins MHFA Australia as our new CEO
3 weeks 1 day ago
The MHFA community have recently welcomed Dr Shona Bass as the new Chief Executive Officer of MHFA Australia.
Your help needed: DELPHI STUDY TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR PROVIDING MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TO A PERSON WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
4 months 4 days ago
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.
Lived experience film for new Senior Leaders course
5 months 2 weeks ago
Mental Health First Aid Australia has received funding to create a lived experience film for our new Senior Leaders Session. We are currently recruiting people who would like to share their story of receiving support for their mental health problem in the workplace.
CEO Nataly Bovopoulos is Moving On
5 months 2 weeks ago
Nataly Bovopoulos has resigned from her position as CEO of Mental Health First Aid Australia and will be moving on from the organisation at the end of 2018. Nataly has been with the MHFA Program since 2011, as a Program Manager, Deputy CEO, and then as CEO from 2017.
YOUR ARTWORK, YOUR STORY - Let Your Story be Part of Ours
7 months 2 weeks ago
Mental Health First Aid Australia is committed to telling the stories of people with lived experiences of mental health problems. We are looking to licence artworks from artists and designers with a lived experience of mental health problems...
Latest MHFA Australia Annual Report (2017) Available Now
7 months 4 weeks ago
2017 was a year of growth and change at MHFA Australia. We celebrated training over 2 million first aiders around the world.
The Launch of Mental Health First Aid for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
8 months 3 weeks ago
We are very pleased to announce that the Mental Health First Aid for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury course has now launched!
Suicide first aid guidelines for refugees and immigrants launched on World Refugee Day
9 months 6 days ago
Researchers from the University of Melbourne and MHFA Australia partnered to develop guidelines for community gatekeepers on how to identify and respond to the risk of suicide in a person from an immigrant and refugee background.
MHFA teams up with the SA Mental Health Commission to deliver Older Person MHFA Showcase Courses
9 months 6 days ago
MHFA has partnered with the SA Mental Health Commission to deliver a set of three Older Person MHFA Showcase Courses, the first of which is running in Adelaide (19th-20th June).
New review of Mental Health First Aid published
9 months 1 week ago
A new review of Mental Health First Aid published in PLoS ONE by researchers in the Centre for Mental Health at the University of Melbourne provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for this public health training program.