RESILIENCE FIRST AID IS ABOUT BEING PROACTIVE
A preventive approach to mental health. Learn how to build mental fitness through a practical strength-based approach.Learn RESILIENCE
2-Day Resilience First Aid Certification.
Learn critical skills to proactively support mental health in others.
Don’t Settle For Less
Why Resilience First Aid?
Only 1 in 10 people have resilience that’s strong enough to protect against mental illness. This means 9 out of 10 of people can benefit from increasing resilience skills to boost protection against depression, anxiety, and other forms of mental ill-health.
50% of people will experience a period of mental illness in their life, but only two thirds will feel confident to talk about it with someone they trust.
This is why we need to take a preventative approach to mental health. Rather than waiting until people need professional treatment, we can start supporting each other to connect and build mental wellness proactively.
Don’t wait until the people around you are struggling. Take on the challenge now to build mental health proactively. This is how we can make a long-term impact.
What is Resilience First Aid?
Resilience First Aid (RFA) is a mental health certification that teaches strength-based skills to support resilience in others and build meaningful relationships. You will learn how to spot signs of low resilience in others, learn the language to talk proactively to people in need, and learn skills to help build their resilience.
This makes Resilience First Aid a highly proactive approach to protect mental health through building meaningful connections and skills to have impactful conversations.
How it Works
The Resilience First Aid Approach
This is a new approach to put trained mental health champions in place who actively boost the resilience and mental health in their communities. The course does so by teaching an effective conversational method called the ALL Protocol, followed by a detailed understanding of the six domains of resilience, skills and functional features of each to notice in others, as well as practical language tools to have meaningful conversations.
In addition, participants are given access to ongoing tools and assessments to explore and build their own resilience to create sustainability of the teachings, alongside resources that help facilitate conversations and build awareness.
ALL Protocol
The course does so by teaching an effective conversational method called the ALL Protocol, followed by a detailed understanding of the six domains of resilience, skills and functional features of each to notice in others, as well as practical language tools to have meaningful conversations.
Tools & Assessments
In addition, participants are given access to ongoing tools and assessments to explore and build their own resilience to create sustainability of the teachings, alongside resources that help facilitate conversations and build awareness.
Strength Based Approach
The skills learned through Resilience First Aid apply to all relationships – with family, with friends, with colleagues, and all other interactions. Through a comprehensive integration of materials, resources and training, Resilience First Aid provides a unique and neuroscience-based approach to proactively protect mental health.
The Research Supporting Resilience First Aid
Resilience First Aid is built on a peer-reviewed strength-based Predictive 6 Factor Resilience Model (PR6) which proactively builds resilience skills in the community.
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 includes a validated psychometric assessment, as well as detailed skills to proactively build resilience.
The Reach
The PR6 model and skills-building approaches are used in research at various universities (including Harvard, University of San Francisco. Northwestern Uni, Boise State Uni, Northeastern Uni, Boston University, Coventry Uni, UNSW, and more).
Accreditation
The PR6-based Driven Resilience training program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Prehospital Continuing Education (CAPCE).
This recognizes the program’s leading approach to bring the latest science-backed developments as a practical course that anyone can learn.
Strong Approach
Resilience First Aid builds on this deep research and validation by making the PR6 model accessible through a certification training and additional resources that create lasting change and protection. This establishes Resilience First Aid with a strong science-based approach that enable meaningful assessment and potential for further validation and impact.
What You’ll Learn Through RFA
What You’ll Learn Through RFA
Getting certified in Resilience First Aid means you’ll learn about an existing set of science-based skills.
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- How to proactively build mental wellness in others using the ALL Protocol.
- How to support others through six resilience domains (Vision, Composure, Reasoning, Health, Tenacity, Collaboration).
- Language and conversational examples on how to talk proactively about mental health.
- How to respond when someone is struggling and refer to help if needed.
- Use a strength-based model to become a source of hope and optimism.
- How to connect meaningfully to support those around you, building lasting relationships.
- Practical insight into the neuroscience of resilience and how to apply this to support others as well as yourself.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
RFA is a high-impact course that teaches you practical skills alongside the latest neuroscience of preventative mental health. As part of completing the certification, you will receive:
- 14 hours interactive training on preventative mental health skills
What sets Resilience First Aid apart is the resources that you take away. In addition to the two-day training course, you’ll also get the following resources to keep learning and build resilience:
- 12 months access to the accredited Driven Resilience App with full mental health and resilience training courses. This is a comprehensive digital resource that includes daily resilience-building activities to continue learning beyond the certification. Use the AI-powered chatbot to track your progress and chat each day, along with quick techniques for in-the-moment help, as well as detailed training for larger goals.
- Your own Resilience First Aid Responder Kit – a set physical resources to facilitate conversations. This includes a comprehensive Responder Manual with all the course content, a RFA wallet card with key information, magnetic resilience skill tiles, domain skill cards, resilience ball, resilience pocket guide, waterproof notebook, and more to help you keep the concepts alive and visible.
- Community access to connect with other responders and people interested to build the resilience of others and themselves. Share ideas and challenges, helping to build a movement to be proactive about mental health.
RFA Course Outcome
On completion of the course, you will:
- Be Certified as a Resilience First Aid Responder for three years
- Receive a certificate of your achievement
- Be able to apply the concepts of preventative mental health
- Know how to use the 6 domains of resilience
- Be able to spot early on when someone might need support
- Be able to apply an effective responder protocol
In three years, you’ll have the opportunity to renew your certification through a one-day refresher course, where you’ll learn more about the latest developments and scientific insight to keep your knowledge and skills updated.
