“When a person is physically struggling in the street or the workplace, people feel a need to help or at least understand. What this course outlined was a real need for a parallel sense of human instinct when it comes to mental health, and our attitude towards it.”

The course goes into detail about a number of mental illnesses and stresses that the role of a mental health first aider is just the same as a physical first aider.

The course covers mental health in the context of environment, socio-economic background and the workplace, which highlights the fact that ‘everyone has mental health’.

Sophie comments: “This generated a great deal of talk among the participants about mental health issues in men within the construction industry, which seemed like a brilliant step towards a greater sense of awareness, care and acceptance of everyone’s overall wellbeing in the workplace and beyond.”