Youth Mental Health First Aid - Online

Tuesday 10 June 2025 – Online Live Training Day 1

10am - 1pm

Thursday 25 June 2025 – Online Live Training Day 2

10am – 1pm

Cost: £149 per person introductory offer. Discount available for third sector organisations and charities. Please e-mail workshops@rcs-wales.co.uk for details.

How do I book?

Visit our RCS Wales Eventbrite link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/rcs-wales-27861958967

Find the YouthMHFA training dates you want to book

You can either book and pay directly on Eventbrite today or you can request an invoice.

If you require an invoice before payment, please send the following details to: workshops@rcs-wales.co.uk

Name of attendee

Role of attendee

Organisation Name

Contact details (phone and email)

Billing name and invoice address (if different to above)

Any Purchase Order No required for the invoice

Bookings requiring an invoice to be sent will close two weeks before the first live course date to allow payment to be invoiced and processed.

Payment is required one week before the first live course day . Pre-course resources will not be released until payment is received.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) Training:

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training is designed to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to support young people who may be experiencing mental health challenges.

This programme is particularly valuable for teachers, parents, youth workers, and anyone who regularly interacts with young people.

The primary purpose of YMHFA is to help participants:

• Understand adolescent development and mental health difficulties
• Recognize the signs of mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, self-injury, eating disorders, psychosis
• Respond effectively and with confidence when a young person is struggling, ensuring they signpost them to the right support at the right time.
• Reduce stigma and promote open conversations about mental health, fostering a culture where young people feel safe to seek help.
• Encourage early intervention and professional support, improving long-term mental health outcomes for young individuals. We will explore what professional support is available.

By taking part in YMHFA training, participants become key allies in safeguarding youth well-being.

This programme helps build supportive communities where young people feel heard, understood, and empowered to manage their mental health challenges.

Why do we need to approach Youth Mental Health First Aid differently to other groups of people?

• There is a high prevalence of mental health difficulties amongst young people. Higher than any other group in society.
• Stigma and self-stigma have a bigger effect on younger people
• Lack of knowledge about mental health
• Lack of knowledge about sources of support
• There is a reluctance to seek help. Too many young people think ‘this is just the way I am’
• Adults have an important influence in young people’s lives
• Mental Health problems interfere with development.

NOTE

Promotion of good mental health is not the same as treating mental health problems. This is not designed as a prevention programme, nor is it intended to promote good mental health. It can only be one part of the puzzle.

As with any first aid role, a Youth Mental Health First Aider could respond in a crisis or support someone in difficulty but would not be expected to resolve, diagnose, prescribe or have an ‘expert’ opinion on the mental health of the young person.

The principle role of a Youth Mental Health First Aider is to keep someone safe for now and signpost them to the right support.

There are 2 live training days (10am -1pm both days) and 6 online modules to complete, 3 online modules before the first live training day and 3 between the first and second live training days. The online pre-course 3 modules will take approx. 3 hours and you cannot attend the live online training on Day 1 unless these have been completed.

The remaining online modules between the two live training days will take approx. 3 hours and the access codes for these will be shared with you at the live training on day 1.

You will need to have your camera and microphone on for the live training sessions. Please make sure you dial in from a place where you can listen and engage fully.

Once your payment has been received and processed, you will receive access to the training materials and the first 3 online modules.

Your training will be provided by a licenced Youth Mental Health First Aid Wales instructor.

This training event will take place in English. If you would like to make enquiries about future MHFA Wales training in Welsh, please email workshops@rcs-wales.co.uk.

If your organisation would like to arrange in-house Youth Mental Health First Aider training for a group of staff, contact us at workshops@rcs-wales.co.uk and we will organise it with you.

Tuesday 10 June – Online Live Training Day 1

10am - 1pm

Thursday 25 June – Online Live Training 2

10am – 1pm

Cost: £149 per person introductory offer. Discount available for third sector organisations and charities. Please e-mail workshops@rcs-wales.co.uk for details.

Terms & Conditions

Price and booking

• All prices quoted are valid for 30 days of the date of issue.
• To secure your booking please complete the booking confirmation form and return to workshops@rcs-wales.co.uk

• Cancellations

We understand that sometimes cancellations happen, and we will cancel any booking free of charge if it is done so with more than one months’ notice of the date of the delivery was due.

If there has been any bespoke work carried out in preparation for your delivery, this will have been noted on your quote and booking confirmation paperwork, this will need to be paid for regardless of the cancellation timing.

Other cancellations terms are as follows:

• Cancellation less than one calendar month from event date 25% cancellation charge
• Cancellation less than three weeks from event date 50% cancellation charge
• Cancellation less than two weeks of event date 100% cancellation charge

Payment

• Full payment must be received prior to the commencement of the training delivery and within 30 days of the invoice date
• Payments can be made by bank payment to:

Rhyl City Strategy Community Interest Company

Sort code:40-38-17 Account Number :1165 8654

• RCS is not VAT registered currently

Intellectual property

Delivery materials are kept under continuous review, however, RCS cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions and the delivery material cannot be taken as comprehensive advice and should never be a substitute for legal or professional advice.

RCS reserves all of its Intellectual Property Rights in the delivery materials, including presentations, handouts or electronic documents and any other training materials. This applies to hard copies, digital copies and recorded copies associated with them.

RCS grant no licence or authority to its customer / client organisation or delivery agent to copy, distribute or amend the delivery materials supplied as part of this agreement. RCS furthermore do not grant permissions for the delivery materials to be shared with anyone outside of the agreed delivery.

Confidentiality & Data Protection

RCS are committed to maintaining confidentiality of delegates and the organisations its working with during delivery. RCS and the client / customer organisation shall not (except in the proper course of its duties), either during or at any time afterwards, use or disclose any Confidential Information.

RCS will at all times comply with legal obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018 and The UK Data Protection Regulation and any other applicable data protection law.

Force Majeure

RCS and the client / customer organisation acknowledge that neither party shall be liable to the other as a result of any delay or failure to perform its obligations caused by an event or circumstance which is beyond the reasonable control which by its nature could not have been foreseen.