Discover our mental health training offer, designed for non-profit organizations, like community organizations!
Arborescence, a community organization that works with caregivers in mental health, offers a unique program of nine trainings, specifically designed for employees and volunteers of non-profit organizations, including community organizations.
This program’s goal is to offer essential information and to raise awareness about mental health issues and to help build confidence working with people living with mental health issues.
You work or volunteer for a community organization and are looking for mental health training? This program is for you!
What is mental health and what issues or disorders are associated with it? What kind of challenges are professionals offering services to people facing mental health issues facing? This training’s goal is to dig deeper into the general concepts regarding mental health, to identify normal and pathological aspects of mental health and to guide the participants towards adopting an adapted approach in their interactions with someone living with mental health issues. Overall, this training aims to offer information and to raise awareness regarding mental health.
This training aims to offer you basic knowledge about a specific mental health disorder and to allow you to identify its early signs and the impacts it can have on the people surrounding the person living with the mental health disorder. How to develop healthy relational strategies will also be discussed in these training workshops.
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Borderline personality disorder
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Bipolar disorders
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Anxiety
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Psychosis
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Depressive disorders
What mental health issues are related to aging and autonomy loss? This training will allow you to understand the risk and protection factors for a balanced mental health, as well as exploring some intervention strategies. The participants will be encouraged to think about the interactions between mental health and aging, and the impact they can have on one another. This training is specifically designed for professionals who work with seniors.
This training’s goal is to offer knowledge about mental health issues in young people by recognizing risk factors and manifestations of mental health disorders. This training workshop also explores the caregiving role that some young people can take and how it can affect their wellbeing. Strategies on how to adopt a healthy caregiving role will also be discussed.
A training that offers theoretical and practical knowledge about burn out in the communitary workplace, that stimulates reflections and the development of strategies about the importance of self care. Any person working in a community organization can potentially be exposed to professional burn out. This training allows the participants to better understand professional burn out, develop knowledge to identify the signs of burnout and strategies to prevent it.
Modalities
Each workshop lasts two hours, including an exchange and questions period and is offered by psychosocial workers from Arborescence.
Available in French and in English.
Questions ? Contact us: formation@arborescence.quebec