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Deb Selway

Deb Selway

Deb Selway is the Founder and Managing Director of MindSavers®.  Deb’s experience comes from the academic field as a university lecturer in education and from working in the TAFE and private education sectors.  She is passionate about highlighting the importance of mental health literacy in the workplace to ensure positive and safe work environments.

Deb has been teaching Mental Health First Aid since 2006 and is accredited to train both the Adult Mental Health First Aid course and the Youth Mental Health First Aid course.  Deb is a member of the Mental Health Coalition of SA and understands the importance of positive mental health from a personal perspective.

Deb’s qualifications include:

  • Mental Health First Aid (Adult and Youth) Instructor;
  • Advanced Diploma of Community Services Management;
  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment;
  • Diploma of Employment Services;
  • Diploma in Frontline Management;
  • PhD in Humanities
  • Master of Journalism
  • National Police Certificate
  • Having had Clinical Depression for about 20 years and not realising it!

Here’s Deb’s personal commendation of Mental Health First Aid training:

“If a Mental Health First Aid training course had been around in the 1970s I am sure it would have saved me from spending much of my adult life depressed (at least until 2000 when I was finally diagnosed with clinical depression and successfully treated by a GP). It would have also saved me a great deal of misery; possibly a diverted career; and perhaps even a number of shattered personal relationships. I truly believe, and know to be so, that this course has the power to save many people in our community from a similar fate such was mine.” Deb Selway, 2008