Mental health difficulties do not discriminate and can affect anyone at any given time.
This highlights the urgent need to equip organisations, their staff, and volunteers, with the foundation skills to support people in distress and make mental health support ‘everybody’s business’.
How can we support you?
Interested? Please get in touch to discuss your needs. You can e-mail us at recoveryacademy@gmmh.nhs.uk, or call us on 0161 358 1771.
Many non-mental health specialist frontline services have asked us for mental health awareness courses, and we are happy to support services to:
The Recovery Academy firmly believes in staff wellbeing and provides a training programme aimed at supporting organisations to create a positive culture around mental health in the workplace.
Our ‘Healthy Minds for Healthy Lives’ buddy training programme aims to equip employees with the key skills to promote change around how mental health is viewed in the workplace and enables them to learn and apply skills to support their colleagues when they need it.
Watch the following video to hear about the impact our bespoke training package developed for Metrolink had on frontline employees.
The course aimed to increase understanding around mental health and equip staff with the skills to support someone in distress.