MHFA training doesn’t stop when the course comes to an end. MHFA England offers continuous support for MHFAiders^®, well beyond your initial certification, to ensure you can lead impactful MHFA interventions.

As an MHFAider^® you will get automatic 24/7 digital support through the MHFAider Support App^®. From there, you’ll find exclusive resources, ongoing learning opportunities to grow your confidence, and gain the benefit of joining England’s largest community of trained MHFAiders^®.​ This support will give you an opportunity to:

• Keep your learning alive
• Quickly reference something
• Connect you with a group of people improving the mental health of the nation

The app empowers you as an MHFAider^® with the following features:

• Secure conversation logging for you to make reflective notes to record and reflect while protecting confidentiality
• Reminders for wellbeing check-ins with people you are supporting
• 24/7 text support service through Shout, for advice and reassurance on a Mental Health First Aid conversation or to support your own wellbeing after a difficult conversation
• Resource library of toolkits, guidance, animations and core mental health concepts to support you in your role as MHFAider^®
• Signposting database through Hub of Hope to find local and national mental health services for additional support

An enthusiastic developer of people, Wendy has been working as a Mental Health First Aid Instructor since August 2018. Her interest in mental health started in 2017 when she joined a student accommodation provider as the Learning and Development Advisor (L&D). As she sat within the HR team, she realised that poor mental health impacts the staff and students. She felt passionate for change and doing something about it, she submitted a project scope to the HR director. In 2018 she created an internal mental health forum that met monthly to discuss actions to move the project forward. The proposal included offering mental health training, which would be underpinned by a well-being campaign. Wendy upskilled as a Mental Health First Aid Instructor to deliver the content consistently and efficiently.

Wendy has since set up as an independent trainer to continue upskilling people in mental health.  She has delivered MHFA England training to numerous clients in a diverse range of sectors, such as retail and hospitality, finance, manufacturing, arts & theatre, and public sector. Her clients include Amazon, BMW Group, British Museum and NHS Dental Trust amongst many others.

Wendy’s programme gets results, as the following comments from course participants show:

‘Wendy was very informative. She made sure all participants were involved in the course. She was non-judgmental and very understanding. It was very easy to open up and she created a brilliant atmosphere. I would recommend this course to any person in their private or professional life’

‘The tutor, Wendy, was great and her honest, real world examples were good and she brought a positive energy which helped to motivate the group which I think is hard with mixed engagement and a range of cameras on and off. Overall, it was a really good course – thanks so much to all involved’

‘I was so pleased with how well it went, each day was different and exciting, despite covering a lot of ground for each topic. The trainer was great and offered support and made me feel included in all of the sessions’