Mental Health Rights Manual
An online guide to help explain your legal and human rights in the mental health and human services systems in New South Wales.
Read moreRecovery Oriented Language Guide
Words are important. The language we use and the stories we tell have great significance to all involved.
See the guide
Explore our range of highly regarded training pathways for the mental health workforce.
Mental Health Coordinating Council takes COVID safety seriously. We are now delivering face-to-face training with arrangements to minimise the spread of COVID-19. Please see COVID-Safe Training for details.Â
Want to plan ahead? Take advantage of our 2023 training calendar with courses designed to meet the current needs of the community-based mental health workforce.
This online workshop is an introduction to the Hearing Voices Approach, a recovery model that aims to provide tools to assist people to alleviate the distress associated with voices.
3 hours
Members $120 | Non-members $150
This introductory course is a series of four half-day online sessions designed to develop core principles of Trauma Informed Practice.
Free
3 April 2023
FULL
13 April 2023
FULL
21 April 2023
FULL
28 April 2023
FULL
This introductory course teaches the fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing for use in person-centred counselling.
1 day
Members $190 | Non-members $250
This course is designed to teach skills to support people through change using an effective person-centred approach used widely in therapeutic settings.
1 day
Members $190 | Non-members $250
This online workshop will improve the skills of participants who use their lived experience in service provision.
Members $160 | Non-members $200
This highly popular qualification provides Peer Workers with an opportunity to build on their lived experience and on-the-job experience and receive a nationally recognised qualification in mental health.
Certificate IV in Mental Health provides an opportunity for participants to build their on-the-job experience and receive a nationally recognised qualification in mental health.
1 year
Practical tools and tips to help people who support others in their work manage personal and client wellbeing. Gain a renewed sense of energy and expertise in wellbeing and self-care.
3 hours
Members $160 | Non-members $192
Build your skills to effectively support clients with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues through this new two-day online workshop.
3 days
$366
This course provides a comprehensive look at trauma in a social service and healthcare setting, and aims to provide tools to better support people who have experienced trauma.
2 days
The training has been designed as continuous professional development activities for Psychosocial Recovery Coaches, but also suits people working in the mental health and human services sectors, people with lived experience, carers and family.
2 hour
Free
Self-paced learning
