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Morpeth Report
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Sep. 15th, 2008 | 09:44 pm
Last week I presented a Mental Health First Aid course at Northumberland County Hall in Morpeth. At the beginning of the week it seemed like it might be touch or go in terms of whether the course would be able to go ahead at all as Morpeth was hit by some horrendous flooding the previous weekend.
It turned out that County Hall is at the top of a hill and had managed to remain unscathed. However one trainee had some video of the floods on her phone and it really was spectacular. Another was now working on the second floor of a building in which the ground floor was covered in silt.
The course had the full 15 complement attending, all from local organisations as diverse as the Pensions Service and a large firm that dealt with the distribution and repair of mobile phones. There were a number of HR professional who wanted a better grounding in mental health, one of whom particularly wanted to be able to properly explain mental health issues to line managers who could sometimes be very unsympathetic, as a result of ignorance.
On the second day we just managed to finish in time to avoid the traffic chaos caused by a visit from Prince Charles. Apparently he was going to have tea with the Fire Brigade, based just across the road from us.
I'll be back in Morpeth in early October and I'm looking forward to it.
If you would like to find more information on MHFA you can visit my website at www.mentalhealthfirstaidnortheast.co.uk
It turned out that County Hall is at the top of a hill and had managed to remain unscathed. However one trainee had some video of the floods on her phone and it really was spectacular. Another was now working on the second floor of a building in which the ground floor was covered in silt.
The course had the full 15 complement attending, all from local organisations as diverse as the Pensions Service and a large firm that dealt with the distribution and repair of mobile phones. There were a number of HR professional who wanted a better grounding in mental health, one of whom particularly wanted to be able to properly explain mental health issues to line managers who could sometimes be very unsympathetic, as a result of ignorance.
On the second day we just managed to finish in time to avoid the traffic chaos caused by a visit from Prince Charles. Apparently he was going to have tea with the Fire Brigade, based just across the road from us.
I'll be back in Morpeth in early October and I'm looking forward to it.
If you would like to find more information on MHFA you can visit my website at www.mentalhealthfirstaidnortheast.co.uk