Community Education

The courses below are hosted by CMHA Kelowna and open for individual registration a few times per year. For open dates, visit our Event Calendar for Mental Health First Aid and Okanagan College’s Continuing Studies department for Living Life to the Full.

Alternatively, organizations, workplaces, teams, and other groups can book their own course with a minimum of 10 participants (maximum 25) to be hosted at CMHA Kelowna or your own location. Please send us an email to book your own course.

MHFA shares the same overall purposes as traditional first aid – to save lives. This course is appropriate for individuals, workplaces, service providers, and more.

MHFA teaches participants how to help someone showing signs of a mental health issue or experiencing a mental health crisis. This course includes recognizing the early signs of specific mental health issues and a framework for responding.

MHFA Canada is an evidence based program of The Mental Health Commission of Canada.

LLTTF is based on the 5 Areas of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) model, developed by Dr. Chris Williams, an expert and trainer in CBT and a Professor of Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. LLTTF will help you understand your feelings and what to do about them!

This course helps people to make a difference to their lives. Each session is expertly moderated and includes a booklet. Participants are taught how to deal with their feelings when fed up, worried, or hopeless, and learn skills that help them tackle life’s problems.

For more information about the course, visit www.livinglifetothefull.ca