Connect 5 Mental Health and Wellbeing

This course is aimed at all staff to increase their awareness of mental health and mental wellbeing and to enhance their skills and confidence in carrying out wellbeing work with patients and clients.

Participative training suitable for all public facing staff to increase skills and confidence to have conversations about mental health and emotional wellbeing.
A range of public health models and CBT techniques are shared that can be used with patients to make changes in their lives.
Communication skills and conversation techniques are explored to support staff to manage difficult conversations and achieve improved outcomes for patients and staff.
Participants gain skills to helpfully respond during conversations and recognise the key role they play.
We look at intensity of stress and distress to be able to have conversations with people about suicide.

The course has been commissioned by Blackpool ICB so is free of charge to staff delivering services in this area. This is a 2-day course so participants attend on both days.

Training dates:

Wednesday 14 and 21 January 2026, 9.30am to 4.00pm

Tuesday 3 and 10 February 2026, 9.30am to 4.00pm

Thursday 5 and 12 March 2026, 9.30am to 4.00pm

Tuesday 17 & 24 March 2026, 9.30am to 4.00pm

All courses are held at Blackpool Carers Centre, Beaverbrooks House, 147 Newton Drive in Blackpool.

If you would like to attend, please email your name, job role, team/service/department and which course you would like to attend to helena.brown@blackpoolcarers.org

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.