France: a mental health first-aid plan
Published in the Nr 43 - March 2022
NEWS SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND QUALITY OF WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Mainstreaming mental health first aid is set to become a priority. According to a recently published circular, a three-pronged strategy will be rolled out in France: awareness-raising initiatives to remove the stigma surrounding mental illness, training for civil servants who volunteer and share their motivation for doing so, and hiring trainers who are conversant with psychosocial risks and have training experience.
« It will be a question of allowing staff to know how to identify mental health disorders and then to advise, guide, reassure and act »
- For more information: maire-info.com (in French), (machine translation into English)