Mental health first aid is being added to St. John Ambulance first aid training, which an estimated 25,000 Manitobans receive each year. *Special offer only available to new subscribers or returning ...

Say your co-worker has stopped coming to lunch with you – something he used to do every day. His office door is closed, and he’s irritable when normally he’s a big part of the team. You should pick up ...

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Noah Boakye-Yiadom first had the idea for a specialized mental health first-aid training program for Black communities while in rural Alberta in 2018. The Alberta Health Services researcher was ...

Sometimes it just takes a willingness to ask tough questions: “Are you suicidal? How would you kill yourself? Do you have the means? Have you attempted suicide in the past?” In other cases, the ...

Teaching empathy is at the top of the lesson plan for a mental health first aid training program coming to Sydney, N.S. The program is designed, just like traditional first aid, to enable people to ...

Seven teens at the Brandywine Community Library have recently been trained in teen Mental Health First Aid. Teens ages 14-18 completed the program, consisting of three 90-minute sessions, to learn how ...

New first-aid requirements will be in effect for B.C. employers in a few weeks. On Tuesday, WorkSafeBC reminded employers to prepare for the changes that will take effect on Nov. 1. Changes are being ...