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

For More Information Please Contact:

Jayden Sydoruk (she/her)

Community Helpers Program Coordinator

Phone: 780-539-6680

Email: helpers@sp-rc.ca