Learning - Training Resources

The Aspira Healthcare Learning & Training Resources page offers evidence-based healthcare and mental health education designed for individuals, professionals, schools, NGOs, and other organizations. It features a health literacy toolkit along with practical tools, research-backed guidance, and easy-to-use training materials to enhance health, resilience, and mental well-being in workplaces, schools, and communities. These resources support learning, skill-building, and real-world application, empowering users to create healthier environments and deliver better care through effective mental health training and wellbeing education. 

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The West Virginia University Measurement-Based Care (MBC) Training Course is a free online program that serves as a professional education resource aimed at assisting behavioral health and healthcare professionals in implementing Measurement-Based Care into their clinical practice. This mental health training equips participants with the skills to utilize validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), standardized behavioral health assessments, and routine symptom monitoring to enhance clinical decision-making, patient engagement, and treatment outcomes.

Additionally, the training offers practical guidance on selecting assessments, interpreting results, integrating MBC into workflows, and leveraging data to support evidence-based care and quality improvement initiatives. Complementing the course is a health literacy toolkit designed to promote wellbeing education. Furthermore, the program provides continuing education opportunities, including CME and nursing CE credits, making it an invaluable resource for clinicians, healthcare organizations, educators, and behavioral health leaders focused on enhancing outcomes-driven care delivery.

In 2001, Henry Ford Behavioral Health pioneered the concept of ‘zero suicides’ as a fundamental goal and developed a care pathway that assesses and modifies suicide risk for patients with depression. This landmark approach achieved zero suicides for 18 months between 2009 and 2010 and resulted in a statistically significant decrease in suicide rates within Henry Ford since its inception. The innovative efforts were recognized with The Joint Commission’s Ernest Amory Codman Award and the American Psychiatric Association’s Gold Award.

Since Henry Ford first envisioned ‘zero’ as a target, a global zero suicide movement has taken shape. Mental health organizations and governments worldwide have embraced this idea, designing numerous programs aimed at preventing suicide deaths. Despite these advances, many health systems continue to struggle in eliminating suicide, highlighting the need for improved health literacy toolkits and comprehensive mental health training. Statistics clearly indicate the ineffectiveness of existing models, which underscores the importance of wellbeing education in successfully addressing this critical issue.

Health literacy is the ability of individuals to find, understand, and utilize health information and services to make informed decisions about their health and follow treatment instructions. Low health literacy presents a significant global challenge, affecting many adults worldwide and is associated with poorer health outcomes, increased hospitalizations, and greater health disparities. This is often due to struggles with reading, numeracy, language barriers, or navigating complex health systems. To combat these issues, the AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit provides a comprehensive set of structured, evidence-based tools and strategies that healthcare practices can use to simplify communication. Additionally, integrating mental health training and wellbeing education into these resources can further enhance patient understanding, making healthcare easier to navigate for all individuals, regardless of their literacy level.

Aspira has partnered with KushalKshem, a healthcare training consultancy specializing in service quality, patient experience, and workforce excellence. Their flexible, multi-modal training programs support healthcare teams in structured onboarding, clinical communication, and operational best practices across diverse care settings, including mental health training and wellbeing education. They also offer a health literacy toolkit to enhance patient understandings. Contact us for more information.

The MHPSS Hub Resources portal, hosted by the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and the Danish Red Cross, serves as an extensive online library of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) resources. This includes a variety of materials such as strategy documents, reports, guides, factsheets, videos, podcasts, and toolkits, all designed to enhance practitioners' skills through mental health training and to promote wellbeing education. These resources aim to support volunteers and National Societies in humanitarian and crisis settings, while also featuring valuable tools like the health literacy toolkit.

Aspira has partnered with Corvus Health to provide comprehensive competency-based training services aimed at enhancing the skills and performance of health workers and healthcare teams across global settings. Their education and training programs encompass pre-service education, post-graduate specialization, in-service updates, and continuous professional development—covering crucial areas such as clinical care topics, leadership and management skills, quality improvement, customer service, and soft skills. Additionally, they emphasize a health literacy toolkit as part of their offerings. Training modalities include face-to-face, eLearning, blended formats, or distance learning, and can be customized to the specific needs of health facilities and professionals. This tailored approach is designed to improve care delivery and workforce effectiveness, including mental health training and wellbeing education.

The Zero Suicide Alliance's Suicide Awareness Training is a free, short, online course designed to enhance health literacy while teaching individuals basic skills for identifying and supporting someone who may be struggling with suicidal thoughts. Open to anyone aged 16 and over, this mental health training covers key topics such as risk factors, warning signs, and how to engage in supportive, potentially life-saving conversations with someone you're concerned about. It features coached scenarios and real-experience videos, allowing participants to download a certificate upon completion. This wellbeing education is self-paced, typically taking about 30 minutes to complete, with the aim of equipping more people with the confidence and tools to intervene early and assist someone in crisis.

For the past five years, NTTAC has been delivering high-quality training and technical assistance (TTA) through its robust network of TTA providers. We encourage you to support the growth and sustainability of your teams, organizations, and communities by connecting with NTTAC’s partner organizations below, which offer valuable resources like the health literacy toolkit, mental health training, and wellbeing education.

These resources, including our health literacy toolkit and mental health training modules, are designed to support organizational leaders and supervisors in their efforts to implement wellbeing education initiatives.

The Center for Mental Health Implementation Support (CMHIS) leverages extensive expertise in sustainably implementing effective mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery practices to enhance health literacy and support organizations in improving the lives of the individuals they serve. 

With our bi-regional Hubs, CMHIS offers mental health training and resources, enabling your organization to enhance the delivery of mental health care. We assist in strategizing to overcome barriers and implementing new programs from start to finish. By mapping the course, navigating roadblocks, and providing tailored support, we ensure that those in need receive exceptional mental health care, aligned with our commitment to wellbeing education.

The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation (Adolescent Kit) was created in recognition of the particular challenges that adolescents face in humanitarian situations and the gap in programming to support them. This kit aims to support adolescent girls and boys in difficult circumstances, providing them with resources for health literacy, mental health training, and wellbeing education. It opens spaces for them to engage as agents of positive change on issues that affect them. Learn more about adolescents living in challenging circumstances and how the Adolescent Kit was designed to address their human rights, needs, and potential. Explore the materials in the Adolescent Kit and discover how to get started in using it with adolescents in your context.

Welcome to Aspira Health Global’s Learning & Training Resources — your trusted hub for practical, easy-to-follow tools and courses that promote health literacy toolkit for individuals of all ages around the globe. Whether you’re just starting out or expanding your skills, our resources are tailored to enhance your support for others in their health, wellness, and overall wellbeing. From foundational knowledge to mental health training and actionable strategies, you’ll discover inclusive learning that empowers you to make a positive difference in your community and beyond through wellbeing education.

I Support My Friends builds on the principles of Psychological First Aid to equip older children and adolescents with the skills and knowledge necessary for mental health training, enabling them to support their friends in distress, all under the mentorship and guidance of trusted adults. This health literacy toolkit is part of a four-part resource kit developed collaboratively by UNICEF, Save the Children, the MHPSS Collaborative, and WHO, aimed at enhancing wellbeing education.

The Zero Suicide Alliance offers valuable mental health training through its Suicide Awareness Training, a short, free online course designed for anyone eager to enhance their health literacy toolkit with basic suicide awareness and prevention skills. We believe that suicide is preventable, and we understand that often, a simple conversation can make a significant difference in saving a life. This training is intended for individuals aged 16 and over who wish to learn how to respond if they encounter someone who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide, contributing to their overall wellbeing education.

Psychological First Aid (PFA) Online is a 5-hour interactive online course that equips participants with essential mental health training to learn the core actions of PFA. The course illustrates ways to apply these actions in various post-disaster scenarios, addressing different survivor needs. Additionally, it highlights the importance of provider well-being before, during, and after disasters, contributing to a comprehensive health literacy toolkit. This course is ideal for new providers seeking orientation to PFA, as well as seasoned practitioners looking for a review of the PFA concepts to enhance their wellbeing education.

The First Aid for Stress & Trauma (FAST) course is a free, 30-minute online training that equips learners with practical skills to understand, regulate, and respond to stress, trauma, and panic. Developed by The Peaceful Heart Network and offered through DisasterReady.org, this mental health training provides techniques such as trauma tapping and self-havening, helping participants to identify signs of stress and trauma while also offering immediate psychological first aid to others. Additionally, the course is part of a broader health literacy toolkit designed for humanitarian workers, nonprofit staff, and anyone interested in wellbeing education to support individuals facing stress and traumatic experiences.

The Psychology.org Free Online Psychology Courses page offers a curated list of no-cost online classes designed to enhance health literacy and support wellbeing education. These courses enable learners to delve into the science of human behavior, mental processes, and overall mental health training. It showcases a variety of courses hosted by universities and leading learning platforms, covering foundational topics such as introductory psychology, brain and behavior, research methods, and personal well-being. Many of the courses are self-paced and accessible without tuition, although certificates of completion may be available for a fee. This valuable resource is intended for independent learners, students, and those eager to explore psychology by providing opportunities to deepen their understanding of human thought, emotion, and action from reputable institutions.