28/02/2025
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.
“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’
- ‘I 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’.