Training

This page on the NHS Every Mind Matters website has some excellent ideas about how to support someone else who is experiencing mental health challenges.

If you are worried about someone and feel they need additional support with their mental health, encourage them to contact their GP.

If you need urgent help for yourself or someone you are caring for, please call 111 and select the mental health option for the First Response Service, a 24-hour service for people in a mental health crisis. 

This service is for anyone, of any age, who is registered with a GP in Cambridgeshire or Peterborough. Specially-trained mental health staff will speak to you and discuss with you your mental health care needs – instead of you having to go to accident and emergency departments of local acute hospitals.

CPSL Mind run a range of training offers, including STOP Suicide training, an award-winning suicide prevention campaign. STOP Suicide seeks to empower communities and individuals across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to help stop suicides by being alert to the warning signs, asking directly about suicide and helping those who are feeling suicidal to stay safe.

The Zero Suicide Alliance offer free online training courses to teach you the skills and confidence to have a potentially life-saving conversation with someone you’re worried about.

RCE Wellbeing Hub (formerly Recovery College East) offers short bitesize courses, online and face to face, on a variety of topics aimed at helping us look after our own wellbeing and those around us.

Everyone Health offers a behaviour change approach to improving the health of local communities, including free training for volunteers and professionals working in health and social care including Mental Health First Aid courses.