MENTAL HEALTH FACULTY

MENTAL HEALTH FACULTY:

The World Health Organization (WHO) had and has continued to publish alarming statistics on the rising incidents of Mental Health Disorder.

Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability among young people aged 5 to 24 years. (GBD 2017).

And even more importantly, most mental disorders in adults start to manifest during childhood and adolescence.

Sadly, according to them, suicide is now the third leading cause of death in 15-19 year-olds, from suicide, to substance abuse, violence and self-injury, many young people are daily becoming victims of poor mental health. 

Therefore, the need for mental health training has become extremely crucial for all caregivers- Parents, School Leaders, Teachers to help stem the tide.

More so, as it has been identified that schools are better positioned to develop public health strategies that can help prevent and detect mental disorders early as well as provide an ideal environment that can address problems arising from it.

Therefore, the Mental Health Training Series will cover different aspects of mental health education to address the competency gap required to provide the essential support in our school communities.

Courses

• Mental Well-being for People Managers 

This is to create awareness among people managers on how employees’ mental health impacts organizations’ productivity and to help them develop organizational culture that promotes employees’ mental wellbeing.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding Well-being, Mental Health and Mental Illness and the Risk- factors of mental illness.
• Develop skills to help support and build a culture of self-care.

2. Understanding Mental Health, Prevention and promotion- Role of HR in optimizing organizational output and returns: This training course teaches how to implement a process that facilitate early identification within an organization and recognize when to seek help and how to assist others.

  3. Understanding and Caring for Adolescence:  Helps to Identify and manage threats to wellbeing, develop skills to help support and build a culture of self-care and Enumerate the different mental health challenges faced by adolescents.

4. Common Mental Health Challenges – Learning Disabilities
5. Developing Adaptive Skills to understanding the Adolescents: To help adolescents build resilience and self-care that will promote a healthy adolescent lifestyle, understanding and trust amongst others