New Online Learning Opportunity: Mental Health Crisis Tools supporting young LGBTQIA+ people
This toolkit (you may need to sign up to access) will help individuals working in health and care settings such as urgent and emergency, primary care, or mental health settings to effectively communicate and provide young LGBTQIA+ people in crisis with personalised support.
Rebecca Burgess-Dawson, Clinical Lead for Mental Health, NHS England Workforce, Training and Education Directorate, said:
“This new addition to our successful Crisis Tools guides brings the voices and lived experience of LGBTQIA+ young people to all health and social care staff.”
There are four 15-minute learning guides in the LGBTQIA+ Crisis Tools which can be completed online. The learning guides are accessible for anyone wanting to do bite sized learning to provide better support to young LGBTQIA+ people in mental health crisis. On the website, you can also find the existing Crisis Tools, as well as Guides for Supporting Young Black Men in mental health crisis.
The Crisis Tools are presented in video and text format with accompanying downloadable guides, available here: https://crisistools.org.uk/guides/
Individuals who engage in the learning can do so on a one-off basis or create a simple profile allowing them to save their progress and download a certificate of completion for their records.
