Mental Health Training

Strengthening the mental wellbeing of people in our community.”

Getting Your Head INto The Game

Getting Your Head in the Game is our new and exciting project that focuses on improving mental health within our community, funded by CVS Falkirk.

To do this we worked in partnership with FDAMH, SAMH and Positive Mental Health Scotland by funding these professionally trained mental health organisations to deliver different types and topics of mental health awareness sessions.

Together with the mental health charities, from March – September 2022 we delivered 15 sessions to over 175 people within the Forth Valley area.

We have also started delivering mental health workshops to players across our community teams, in collaboration with SAMH and Movember UK. The goal of these sessions is to provide young people with the tools to become aware of and support their friends’ mental wellbeing, as well as their own.

FEEDBACK

Here are some participant quotes to support the delivery:

The main takeaway point for me was the importance of communication, to give employers and employees the opportunity to speak openly and freely about their mental health.

Robert from SAMH made everyone feel at ease and it’s obvious he’s done this type of session many times and was very comfortable with his delivery, good points, well made and received by everyone. Personally, I was just happy to be there with members of staff from the foundation, the football club side and stadium staff, it was good to interact and get to know everyone, I feel everyone from all departments should have met before this and maybe something along similar lines or just informal event should be done more often.

The FDAMH mental health training was extremely powerful, insightful and made a huge impact on the young people who attended. Julie the trainer managed to engage the young people by delivering awareness sessions on a number of mental health issues but in a fun, interactive and enjoyable way.