COR Academy

Summary

This course was developed with input from educators, caregivers, and mental health experts to meet the unique needs of youth aged 12-24. It offers practical tools to help adults recognize when a young person may be struggling and provides guidance on how to offer meaningful support. By focusing on the challenges and pressures faced by youth today, the program empowers participants to foster understanding, build trust and promote resilience in the young people they care for.

Course participants will learn how to:

• recognize signs that a young person may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or who might be in a mental health or substance use crisis
• have conversations that encourage a young person to - talk about their mental well-being - discuss professional and other supports that could help with recovery to improved mental well-being - reach out to these supports
• assist in a mental health or substance use crisis situation
• check in with one’s own mental well-being and take action as needed

Topics

Module 1: Introduction to MHFA

• Introduction to MHFA Actions - ALGEES
• The role of a first aider
• Key knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours
• Impact of stigma on mental well-being
• The range of changes that may indicate a decline in mental well-being
• Risk factors and protective factors that influence mental well-being
• Activity: Use the information in this module to create a Persona of a young person you are likely to encounter

Module 2: MHFA for Declining Mental Well-Being

• Review of Module 1
• Assessing the situation
• Communicating respectfully (includes communicating with people from diverse cultures and with members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community)
• Case Studies
• Review Activity: Use what you have learned to support the Persona created in Module 1

Module 3: MHFA for Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis Situations

• Responding to the possible challenges
• Recognizing possible signs of crisis
• MHFA actions in a crisis
• Case Studies
• Using MHFA actions (ALGEES) for your own self-care
  

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