Testimonials

“Hi Dear Deb, Yes, I fully support you in this endeavour to deliver MHFA courses …. My best wishes to you for this.”
Betty Kitchener, OAM
Program Director
MHFA Training and Research Program, ORYGEN Research Centre

Testimonials from Course Participants

Adult Mental Health

  • Has encouraged me to be more proactive in society and throughout life.
  • Brilliant, in the area I work I have learnt new strategies.
  • Gave a great insight into what sufferers feel and how I may be able to assist them.
  • I think any person in a service delivery work environment should consider doing a course such as this. Mental Health is a much larger issue than people may realise and you never know ….this course may help save a life.
  • Wonderful provision of information that allowed me to gain more knowledge about a subject that is quite complex.
  • A great course, I wish everyone could do it!
  • I will be able to use the information from this course both at work and in my personal life.  Very helpful.
  • Excellent coverage of mental health information and resources for follow up.

Aboriginal Mental Health

  • Having an aboriginal facilitator teaching this course allowed for comfortable speaking and sharing of thoughts, opinions and ideas.
  • I have learnt a lot from this two day workshop and I will share the skills and what I learned from this in my community.
  • This course is well presented and I cannot say that any information was not covered.
  • I felt good about doing this course, it was full of interesting issues.

Youth Mental Health

  • Excellent.  As a teacher, I believe I will now be able to help kids with problems more confidently.
  • Very relevant to my work and even though I have had a range of previous training and education, participation in this course has still been very helpful.
  • These first aid strategies assist us to open conversations and help remove the stigma of mental illness.
  • This course should be recommended to all in the community.  The more people who do this course the healthier our community will become.
  • Very beneficial, it has given me insight on how to deal with mental health issues.
  • I thought the information was very clear and ignited things I knew but had forgotten.