Mental Health First Aid Training for hair and beauty professionals in the Limavady area

Local hairdressers, Mental health advocates, and LIPS (Limavady Initiative for the Prevention of Suicide), completed a two-day Mental Health First Aid training in collaboration with Limavady MDT, GP Federation, LIPS, facilitated by Marie Dunne, Resilio.

Marie Dunne, Facilitator  explained: “We recognised that hair and beauty professionals often spend significant time with their clients and are often trusted confidants to these clients. With this in mind, we arranged a two-day Mental Health First Aid training event for hair and beauty professionals. Congratulations to participants who completed a two day workshop/ This training provided the participants with the skills necessary to be able to identify, understand and respond to signs of poor mental health in clients / customers.

Marie added: “Participants from the voluntary and community sector also joined the training days which was a wonderful opportunity to network and find out some of the great support available in the Limavady area.” 

“Mental Health First Aid does exactly what it says on the tin – it allows us to provide immediate aid to a person in need until a trained professional can provide a more permanent intervention.”

Feedback from participants was very positive said:

' I intend to be more confident when I approach someone with a mental health Crisis'

'I attended this course to help me support my clients with a mental health Crisis' 

'Fantastic course, Loved every part of it. Marie and Siobhan are excellent providers, thank you so much'

'learned so much, hopefully how to carry out mental health first aid when needed'

I learned so much about listening, approaching and supporting people'

' I learnt that maybe in a moment we are all capable of saving a life'

'I have a brand new set of tools that I will use henceforth, I am very grateful to Marie and Siobhan. They are an amazing asset to this Trust'.