RESILIENCE FIRST AID

2-Day Resilience First Aid accredited mental health certification. Proven prevention program to build peer support and personal resilience skills.

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WHY become Resilience First Aid (RFA) certified?

9 out of 10 people can benefit from increasing resilience skills which protect against mental illness such as depression and anxiety.

Duration: 2-Day Workshop

Purpose: Learn useful everyday skills to support resilience in others, build sustainability, spot risk early and refer others for help.

Focus: Shift to prevention, culture of resilience, scientific foundations, accredited excellence.

Outcome: obtain your Resilience First Aid Certification.

Fees: AU $800.00 pp

Many people don't know what protects mental health, how to talk about it and what resources and skills are available. This is what Resilience First Aid will teach you.

Why Get Certified?

Learn how to proactively build mental wellness in people around you.

Learn about six domains of resilience and the latest neuroscience.

Learn language to talk proactively about mental health.

Learn how to respond when someone is struggling.

Learn a strength-based model o become a source of hope.

Learn how to build meaningful connections.

What's Included in RFA?

3-Year Certification

Certification valid for 3-years with option to renew in 1-day refresher training + acknowledgement of 14-hours professional development hours.

Driven Resilience App

12-months FREE access to the accredited Driven Resilience App with full mental health and resilience training courses to continue your learning.

RFA Responder Kit

Receive a unique set of physical resources including your Responder Manual, RFA wallet card, magnetic resilience skill tiles, domain skill cards, and more.

PR6 Resilience Report

The PR6 is a validated resilience assessment completed through the Driven app to learn about your resilience strengths and opportunities to build.

Dual Impact: RFA Evaluation Research

Resilience First Aid is built on the peer-reviewed Predictive 6 Factor Resilience model, with 2024 research evaluating the impact of the certification showing significant improvements through the training.

Improvements were found immediately after the workshop, with the impact continuing and even improving further after the training.

What's more, Resilience First Aid improved both peer support as well as personal resilience skills. Read the research here.

RFA Impact

This dual impact shows how valuable this course is for communities as well as individuals building their own personal sustainability.

Overall, Resilience First Aid improved peer support skills by 11% and personal resilience by 10% on average.

Not only this, but there is also immediate impact after the training, which improves over time.

Suicide Prevention

As an accredited suicide prevention program, Resilience First Aid's evaluation research also found a very strong improvement in suicide prevention awareness.

An initial improvement of 23% was found, increasing to 33% after four weeks as participants internalise more of the learnings.

This is due to Resilience First Aid's practical approach to highlighting risks to mental health and focusing on earlier intervention through proactive conversations, making Resilience First Aid an invaluable course to save lives.

COURSE CURRICULUM

Resilience First Aid is built on the peer-reviewed Predictive 6 Factor Resilience Model (PR6). The PR6 is a comprehensive whole body and brain resilience model that provides a clear framework to understand resilience and access practical skills. The Resilience First Aid Certification consists of eight modules covering 14 hours of total learning. Each model is presented through short engaging videos.

Training is available in multiple formats to suit your needs - either fully online through 14 hours of self-paced training, or through a live workshop spanning 2-days, or 4x half day sessions.

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Natalie Tremain

Community Corrections Officer

"This is the proactive preventative program I've been waiting for! It enables me to work more effectively in the space of resilience with myself and others, on a personal and professional level. As it has structured actions with applicable language examples and easy to follow modules. The pre- and post-support is inclusive and encouraging and the course content and resources are of an exceptional high quality. I really enjoyed completing the course and I now feel more informed and confident engaging others in resilience talks.

Paul Faci

Leading Teacher - Student Agency

"I have never seen a program as comprehensive, yet so easy to use. The PR6 makes sense. However, what stood out most for me, is the ALL concept that RFA equipped me with to use in my professional and personal interactions. This is the first time I have actually 'used' the learning and tools obtained from a training course. The ALL concept is simple, it works..."

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The Resilience First Aid Certification is a comprehensive package that brings a lot of value not only in the initial training but also provides rich ongoing resources to keep building resilience.