Mental Health Courses

The Red Cross Psychological First Aid Program is designed to promote resiliency and reduce the impact of loss and trauma.

It provides knowledge and skills for people to live life through understanding stressors and traumas that impact them, and helps participants gain an understanding of how to recognize when someone else is experiencing distress and how to offer help.

The program includes 3 participant-level courses – Psychological First Aid - Self-Care and Psychological First Aid - Caring for Others are online courses, and Psychological First Aid (PFA), is a classroom-based course.

Through the Red Cross Look, Listen, Link, Live model, participants will build a personal understanding of the effects of stress, loss and grief, and how to develop skills for self-care (helping individuals understand personal protective factors).

Psychological First Aid (PFA) Program:
This exciting program option teaches everyone how to help others experiencing loss, grief and stress, and also self-care. Learners will come away with coping strategies to prevent, identify and deal with stressful events, and they will better understand what supports are available to them and how they can access or help others to access specialized support.

PFA is built on the latest evidence-based research from the international community and was developed in response to a growing need within our communities and to address a gap in wellness program options with a focus on resiliency.