Mental health training opportunities

Campus Wellness offers a broad range of mental health training programs. Our goals are to raise campus mental health awareness, reduce mental health stigma, and support early intervention for those in need within our Waterloo campus community.

Mental Health Literacy Program | Virtual

The Mental Health Literacy Program is designed to support and address mental health within the University of Waterloo community. It is a five-module program with synchronous and asynchronous components that encourages discussions and reflections of mental health through an equity-focused lens. Its purpose is to create employees who see themselves as natural helpers, within a supportive community of care, concern and compassion.

For any questions related to the Mental Health Literacy Program, please contact Robbyn Hesch

Program Outline

  • Module 1: Mental Health Language and Anti-Stigma
  • Module 2: Equity and Mental Health
  • Module 3: Recognizing and Responding to a Person in Distress
  • Module 4: Reframing Resiliency
  • Module 5: Compassionate Care: Caring for Self While Caring for Others

Time Commitment: 10.5 hours synchronous on Microsoft Teams. Participation in all 5 modules is required to receive the Mental Health Literacy Certificate.

To be notified about upcoming Mental Health Literacy Certificate dates, please provide your contact information here.

More Feet on the Ground | Self-guided

This is a free online mental health education program that teaches participants to Recognize, Respond, and Refer individuals experiencing mental health problems on campus. The program was developed by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) in partnership with Brock University and the Ontario Government’s Mental Health Innovation Fund and has been adapted and branded for all participating post-secondary institutions across Ontario.

Training Content

  • Comprehensive information about common mental health and addiction concerns
  • Overview of signs/symptoms, treatment options, mental health stigma
  • Facts, statistics, and stories of lived experience
  • Campus and community resource information
  • Opportunity to receive a certificate following successful completion of a brief on-line assessment of learning

Training dates:

Self-cancellation

Log into Portal and select your profile picture at the top right. Under 'My registered events', select the event you wish to cancel. Scroll to the bottom and click the red button that says 'Cancel registration'.

Registering for future trainings: If you have unregistered and wish to re-enroll at a later date, please revisit this page for the training schedule. This page will be updated once a new schedule is available. 

If you have any questions, please contact Victoria Alderson.