This website brings together a wide range of free, online mental health and wellbeing courses. The courses, which have been developed by universities across the world, generally run for several sessions, over a number of weeks. They are aimed at a broad range of people including the general public, health and social care workers, teachers and academics. 

This site offers free, online, life-skills courses. The courses, which are based on cognitive behavioural therapy, aim to help people manage issues such as stress, worry or low mood.

In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 Living Life to the Full (LLTTF) is offering additional online training and resources free until June 2020. These include courses for adults and young people (under 16). Free booklets and a range of worksheets can also be downloaded from the site.

Visit LLTTF’s website

Visit LLTTF’s website for young people

Mind offers free e-learning for small workplaces (with under 250 people). This aims to build employees' confidence to talk about mental health. The e-learning includes three modules, which take about 20 minutes to complete:

• Building your awareness.
• Looking after yourself.
• Supporting each other.

There is also a free PDF guide with tips and advice for employers, or managers to share with their staff.

Visit Mind's website

The MindEd website provides free e-learning resources on mental health and wellbeing. The e-learning is aimed at the general public, volunteers and professionals. The resources for families focus on children, young people and older people. The site aims to help people understand what problems can occur, what self-help approaches might work and what support is available. 

Visit MindEd for Families’ webpages

In May 2020 a new public mental health e-learning session was launched. The session is aimed at people working in public health, primary care, secondary mental health, social care and commissioning. The module outlines the impact of mental health problems, mental wellbeing, and public health interventions.  

Visit MindEd for Professionals' webpages

The Open University offers a number of free, online courses relating to mental health and wellbeing. These range from introductory to advanced and take between two and eighteen hours to complete. Some of the courses have a particular target audience, others would be relevant to a wide range of people. A number of the mental health and wellbeing courses with a self-help, or public health focus are listed below:

Challenging Ideas in Mental Health

Exercise and Mental Health 

Mindfulness in Mental Health and Prison Settings 

Panic Attacks, what they are and what to do about them 

Public Health and Mental Health Promotion 

Supporting Children and Young People’s Wellbeing

Work and Mental Health

The online Youth Connect 5 course is made up of five, two-hour sessions, which take place over five days. The course is aimed at parents and carers and is free. The purpose of Youth Connect 5, is to enable families to develop resilience.

Merseyside Youth Association delivers the course as an interactive webinar event, using Zoom.

To register your interest in the online Youth Connect 5 course click here.

The Social Isolation Step Up Module focuses on building people’s resilience following the COVID-19 lockdown. The training is aimed at everyone, including the general public. The module takes 5-10 minutes to complete and aims to help people:

• identify signs that isolation is affecting someone negatively
• provide suggestions to reduce stress and anxiety
• recognise when action is needed to keep someone safe
• put strategies in place to deal with the new normal

The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) also offers two, free, suicide prevention modules, the ZSA Gateway Module (which takes 5-10 minutes to complete); and the ZSA Suicide Awareness Module (which takes 20 minutes). More details about these three training modules can be found on the ZSA’s website.

Mental health support and advice in Warrington
As the ZSA's training is national, it doesn’t cover details of Warrington’s mental health support services, but you can find information about how to access local support services by clicking one of the blue age related buttons above, then looking under the dark heading "information and support". 

Alternatively, click I need urgent help, for details of how to get support if someone can't cope and needs help right now.

The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) offers two, free, online, suicide prevention training sessions. The training is aimed at everyone, including the general public. 

The Suicide Awareness Training covers the key issues, offers practical guidance, and takes about 20 minutes. The session aims to:

• help people identify when someone is displaying suicidal thoughts or behaviour
• build people's confidence to speak out in a supportive way
• empower people to signpost others to appropriate services or support

The Gateway Module is a very brief introduction to suicide awareness, which gives tips for approaching someone, you're concerned about. This module takes about 10 minutes to complete and is a shortened version of the 20 minute session.

Accessing the training 
More details about these training modules can be found on the ZSA’s website. The ZSA also offers the Step Up Social Isolation Module, which focuses on building people’s resilience following the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Zero Suicide Alliance is a collaborative of NHS Trusts, businesses and individuals committed to suicide prevention.

If you have any queries after you’ve completed this module, then please email publichealthtraining@warrington.gov.uk.

Mental health support and advice in Warrington
As the Zero Suicide Alliance's training is national, it doesn’t cover details of Warrington’s mental health support services, but you can find information about how to access local support services by clicking one of the blue age related buttons above, then looking under the dark heading "information and support". 

Alternatively, click I need urgent help, for details of how to get support if someone can't cope and needs help right now.

Free suicide prevention resources
This site has details of a wide range of free suicide prevention resources. The resources include:

• Anti-stigma materials
• Booklets, factsheets and support guides on suicide prevention and suicide bereavement
• Local infographics, to help people feel more confident to ask about suicide
• Keep safe plans
• Details of the localised Stay Alive app

To find this information:

1. Click the blue “front line workers” button above
2. Then scroll down to the heading “suicide prevention resources”

"We Need to Talk About Suicide" is aimed at administrative and support staff, people working in public health or health promotion roles, and anyone who works with the public. This free, online session was developed by Public Health England, in collaboration with people who have attempted to take their own lives and those bereaved or affected by suicide.

"We Need to Talk About Suicide" aims to:

• reduce the stigma associated with suicide
• make people aware of possible signs of mental health problems
• increase people's confidence to approach someone they're concerned about; and to have a conversation about suicide 
• help people understand that by asking someone how they are, talking about suicide and listening, they can make a real difference 

The training takes between 60 and 90 minutes to complete.

Accessing the training
The ways you can access "We Need to Talk About Suicide", are outlined below:

• Open access: 
  The training is available to anyone through this link, however this version of the session won't save your progress or track your learning activity.
  
  
• Access via e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) Hub:
  If you login your account on the e-LfH Hub, or if you register for an account, then a record of your learning will be saved. If you don’t have an account, then you can still complete the session, but no record will be saved.
  
  
• Access via ESR: If you work for an NHS Trust that uses ESR for e-learning, then you can access the session through the ESR NLMS portal. When you login to NLMS you'll need to enrol the session.

If you have any queries after you’ve completed this module, then please email publichealthtraining@warrington.gov.uk.

Mental health support and advice in Warrington
As this online session is national, it doesn’t cover details of Warrington’s mental health support services, but you can find information about how to access local support services by clicking one of the blue age related buttons above, then looking under the dark heading "information and support".

Alternatively, click I need urgent help, for details of how to get support if someone can't cope and needs help right now.

Free suicide prevention resources
This site has details of a wide range of free suicide prevention resources. The resources include:

• Anti-stigma materials
• Booklets, factsheets and support guides on suicide prevention and suicide bereavement
• Local infographics, to help people feel more confident to ask about suicide
• Keep safe plans
• Details of the localised Stay Alive app

To find this information:

1. Click the blue “front line workers” button above
2. Then scroll down to the heading “suicide prevention resources”

Mind offers free e-learning for small workplaces (with under 250 people). This aims to build employees' confidence to talk about mental health. The e-learning includes three modules, which take about 20 minutes to complete:

• Building your awareness.
• Looking after yourself.
• Supporting each other.

There is also a free PDF guide with tips and advice for employers or manager to share with their staff.

Visit Mind's website