Mental Health First Aid Wales Reviews

It was a brilliant course, thank you. My only slight negative would be that people were often not on mute during group exercises or whole group discussions. Rather than using a function (such as hand up on Teams) the course relied on people unmuting themselves to talk or just being unmuted all the time, and this left quite a few people unable to get a word in! I would have preferred people requesting to speak but I understand that might have made the course longer.

Well presented and led by the presenter

I found the course interesting and it gave the relevant information required to allow myself to support our students in my workplace. I found the communication with Mrs Kelly Foulkes -Williams was excellent. Clear communication and this was filtered through to the learners I felt that we all communicated well. I enjoyed the group exercise. I found fom a personal point of view I was able to fully engage in the course. Mrs Williams was very knowledgeable on the subject of First aid and mental health. We were able to given time to give our answers or opinions on the topics discussed. Mrs Williams was always aware of time and we had breaks during the course. I really enjoyed the course and feel I have more knowledgeable of First aid mental Health

The webinars are by far the most valuable part of the training. Steve was fantastic. He really clearly and directly discusses pretty difficult content and he encourages discussion in a very natural way. I can't recommend him highly enough. I think the online modules are fine - they ensure the participants understand the basics. The online access to the manual is very clunky and basically forces you to pay extra for a hardcopy just to be able to access the content more easily.

Well presented and detailed

Really well delivered with pace content and accessibility/awareness of people’s needs etc The suicide prevention was unlike any other training/education ive received around this subject and was really well consolidated and confidence with how to handle by the discussions videos and role plays The Algee method was really well consolidated to the point it became natural and flow-ing by using it so many times in all the situations/specific mental health issues There was some discussion on autism/ld awareness. I believe the institute could put together and deliver a brilliant separate course on that as putting it into the mental health first aid would dilute and be a dis service to what is covered effectively in this course- there could be an integration/mention of autism/ld as those with autism/ld have higher co morbidity for these mental health aspects but I think in the mental health first aid course it wouldn’t have to go further into autism/ld than that to be honest except maybe touch on/awareness of communication/language difference for these scenarios (although that is covered well also in eg the psychosis component when emphasising using simple and short sentences etc) Anyway, thank you A good confidence builder and refresher with new things learnt also and a safe and nourishing environment created by Tristan’s personality/delivery Two thumbs up

enjoyed, however would have preferred in person training and work through the materials together, rather than working through the materials individually and recapping on the call.

This course has given me more confidence in recognising Mental Health symptoms and how to react calmly in a situation. Previously, I would have been quite nervous about helping somebody through fear of saying the wrong things. It was also important to me in recognising personal issues with anxiety. I now feel that I can be more empathetic to somebody who has more extreme symptoms of anxiety.

Great course. Helped with lots of questions I had previously. Thanks for delivering it and for keeping us all engaged. I would have preferred to have adults included and not just young people. The manual was not able to be added to read offline and being such a large file, it took a while to load.

I really enjoyed the Course and meeting different colleagues. I have never done this Course on line before as my previous MHFA training has always been in person so I was open to what to expect. I have put 'strongly agree' to most answers above due to the nature of my job which is a Counsellor, so I ask these questions within that. I thought Andrew was very personable and I liked listening to his own lived experience, as well as other colleagues on the Course who shared. I have rated the Course 4 stars as it was well run and was very convenient to do on line, but on reflection it would have been useful to roll it out over 4 webinars / sessions as it is, of course, a huge topic to cover.