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| | Mental Health Facilitator (MHF) Training | | | | | | Establishment of a MHF training program has two principal phases. In the first, a select group of experts defines the specific knowledge that is necessary for effective mental health facilitation in their particular context. Once this knowledge has been identified in a curriculum, a mechanism for training individuals as service providers is developed.
| | | Curriculum | | | | | Based on an international survey of mental health experts, core competencies for mental health service providers were identified. These competencies serve as the MHF base curriculum.
Local experts operationalize each competency for cultural relevance. Additional competencies that reflect local needs and practices may be infused into the curriculum as well. |
| | | | | | Training Mechanism | | | | | NBCC International recommends a training of trainers (ToT) framework. The ToT framework allows for local community-based providers to be trained. In this framework, trainers go to communities in contrast to frameworks where community members go to a central training center or university.
A corps of master trainers who are mental health experts and have experience as instructors are initially trained with the local curriculum. Master trainers then train other trainers in the local curriculum and workshop leadership so that they, in turn, may train others to be direct providers. Finally, select community members are trained according to the local MHF curriculum and subsequently provide mental health facilitation. |
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