Youth eMHFA Wales Reviews

This course was very informative and outstandingly presented. The instructors were knowledgeable and passionate, relaying useful tips to us to use.

Great course - nice that it was split into two half days as it can be quite intense topic.

It was an excellent course, and Stevie and Deshna were both absolutely superb! The course had an excellent mix of factual information and group discussion, and recaps about ALGEE (so that we would remember it, and use it, if we were supporting someone with a mental health difficulty). Stevie and Deshna were very clear, knowledgeable, interesting and insightful. I very much enjoyed the discussion sessions as well, they really helped to cement the information. I feel much better prepared in supporting people with mental health difficulties now, it has taken some of the fear away, and given me a lot more knowledge so that there is less chance that I will miss something. (I had done an ASIST course and Safetalk and the S word already, so that had made me more confident already in asking whether someone is thinking about suicide). Stevie and Deshna are really lovely people too, (so were the others on the course) so it is brilliant to think that they are supporting students when they are not teaching MHFA. It was lovely to meet everyone on the course and spend time in their "company" on Zoom. The videos that are part of the course are really powerful and insightful, I could literally count the various signs of the various mental health conditions from them. And I loved the Nugget animation. Only think where there is any room for any improvement is, that I found the computer tech aspect of the modules that needed to be completed before the Zooms, a little bit clunky. Finishing one module and then it comes up with a status saying "You have finished". The first time, we needed to close that window and then mark it as completed. The second time when we got to that page, it went back to the home page I think. That could have been more seamless. And in the modules themselves it wasn't clear to me what I had to click, sometimes. Also, looking back, I wish that I had bought the physical manual earlier (I have now), I would have found it easier to do the module I think. Superb, Brilliant Course - thank you so much!!!

Thouroughly enjoyed this training, it was very informative and relevant to my practice. It was well delivered and I found the interactive aspects (break out rooms and discussions) very helpful. Thank you very much :)

enjoyed course

Very Informative Sessions. Good resources

- Instructor seemed flustered and kept repeating that she is not necessarily an expert in the subjects covered, which made me feel unsure; however she was very friendly, invited questions and we had a comfortable, informal atmosphere - video content of the course was excellent, loved the example scenes and how the actors were very believable - "nuggets" film was great to understand substance abuse pitfalls - exercises were okay, but repetitive and generic: phrases like listen unjudgmentally kept being repeated, with no real direction how to phrase questions or comments in concrete situations (e.g. ALGEE discussions were repetitive as well, i.e. "find a safe, quiet, private space for the discussion" which is important but non-specific) - lacked the element of role play: in any given scenario, the young person in question could react in a variety of different ways: as a group, it would have been helpful to act out that scenario in person with different prompts --> this would lead to greater level of confidence in applying the content - repetition: the slides used by the presenter largely repeated what we learned on the course, which was tiring and time-consuming

Very much enjoyed the contact and the delivery of this extremely interesting and beneficial course

I learnt a vast amount and feel I have a starting point of communication with whatever the young person attends with. I have bought the manual and will keep it with me at all times, it has already proved useful.

The training was very informative and I will most certainly be making use of it within my working practice. I feel it will benefit greatly in my work with children and young people. I now feel more confident in supporting with all kinds of mental health issues discussed over the training. David was a brilliant course facilitator, made the training easy to follow and it was very interactive. Thank you