Free Mental Health and Wellbeing Training
What better way to EXPLORE the topics of Mental Health and Mental Wellbeing than some free training? Whilst we only provide links to EXPLORE mental health training, we may expand this later to our full 15 wellbeing topics as partners come on board. See below for a list of courses you can access, mainly online, ranging from short courses to longer, more in depth training.
Courses on mental health awareness, mental wellbeing, trauma informed practice, healthy lifestyles and many more topics in sub categories from our ‘15 wellbeing factors’ range from face to face funded courses to online courses from 1 hour up to multiple sessions.
We list here free courses we have sourced and keep this live and up to date as we can. Please e-mail us on info@teeswellbeingnetwork.org to let us know any free courses that our members may find useful or if any of these become out of date. Thanks!
Tees Mental Health Training Hub
Commissioned by Public Health across Tees to provide a free training offer to localworkforce. Courses include Mental Health First Aid, A Life worth Living, Youth Mental Health First Aid, ASiST, SafeTALK etc.
Limited places so restrictions on numbers attending courses from one organisation.
Suicide Awareness E-Learning Training
The Zero Suicide Alliance offer a variety of training courses for suicide awarness.
The courses will teach you the skills and confidence to have a potentially life-saving conversation with someone you’re worried about. b. Gain skills and confidence to help someone who may be considering suicide.
North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care System
Comprehensive training programme to equip our workforce with relevant skills across the prevention workstream.
Estimated time to complete: 60 minutes - Online and face to face available
COVID-19: Psychological First Aid
Get psychological first aid (PFA) training and help people with different needs to cope with the emotional impact of COVID-19.
This course is aimed at frontline or essential workers and volunteers dealing with the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. You do not have to be a specialist to deliver PFA.
Psychological First Aid: Supporting Children and Young People
Get Psychological First Aid training to support children and young people’s mental health during emergencies and crisis situations
This course is aimed at frontline or essential workers and volunteers who come into contact with children and young people aged 0-25 years during emergency and crisis situations.
E-learning for Healthcare - Online Loneliness Training
There is now substantial evidence that having a lack of social connections significantly increases the risk of premature mortality. The course highlights impact of chronic loneliness as a serious health concern, and how we can all help to tackle loneliness with the interaction we have with others.
The course highlights how health and social care staff and the wider public health workforce can recognise risk factors, risk groups and apply simple interventions that will that can make a positive impact.
Internet safety; Suicide and self-harm
E-learning module developed by Samaritans’ Online Harms team. This course is relevant to anyone who provides support around suicide, self-harm, and takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.
Future Learn - Online Courses
Future Learn offers access to free online courses from leading universities and specialist organisations.
A wide range of topics for courses are available, such as Psychology & Mental health, Healthcare & Medicine and more.
STSCP eLearning
The adult and children’s safeguarding partner organisations across Tees provide continuous learning and development of all staff and volunteers working with all age vulnerable people. All courses are currently free of charge for staff/volunteers working in statutory, voluntary, or not-for-profit organisations.
Real Talk About Suicide
Realk Talk is a free 30 minute interactive film which helps guide the viewer, as they make choices to support someone with suicidal thoughts and behaviours
We Need To Talk About Suicide
A free hour long course designed to help people in frontline roles recognise the part we can play in preventing suicide.
MindEd Hub
MindEd hub contains a wide variety of free eLearning modules focusing primarily on suicide and self-harm prevention.