Community Helpers Program (CHP) is an Alberta Health Service funded certificate program. This free training initiative is available to schools, workplaces, and community organizations for people who have a natural tendency to help others.
The Community Helpers Program strengthens an individual’s existing supportive skills and provides the knowledge necessary to support the mental health and well-being of others through a variety of topics: effective communication, self-care, healthy boundaries, the ethics of helping, handling crisis situations, and suicide awareness.
Modules Include
Ethics, Assumptions and Labels
- Doing the Right Thing: Helping Ethics
- Assumptions We Make About Others
- Supporting Each Other
Setting the Stage for Helping
- Earache/Psychache: Common Language
- Tuning In to The Need For Help
- The Foundations of Helping: Listening and Attending
Boundaries and What to Do About Them
- Creating Boundaries
- Managing Boundaries
How to Respond in a Crisis
- Crisis Response
- Crisis Referrals
Mental Health Awareness
- Mental Health Fundamentals
- Responding to a Mental Health/Illness Crisis
Understanding Suicide
- Suicide Facts and Myths
- Suicide: The Community Helper’s Role