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If you are looking to upskill and stay up-to-date with educational best practice, La Trobe's Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Education is the perfect opportunity to extend credentials and advance your understanding of the key learning principles.

Through four core subjects, you'll develop your skills in Mental Health, Trauma and Well-being.

This flexible course is designed for people who are working. If you choose to study part-time, you can also pace your learning over one to two years.

If you'd also like the option to further extend your skills, the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Education can also provide a fully credited pathway to the Graduate Diploma in Education and the Master of Education.

You'll learn how to :

Recognise and support the mental health and wellbeing needs of students

Create culturally safe learning environments, acknowledging the relationship between culture and wellbeing.

Design and implement whole school and person-centred responses to wellbeing needs and evidence-based practices.

Apply universal approaches to wellbeing and gain an understanding of mental health systems and community support resources available to schools and individuals.

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN MENTAL HEALTH FOR EDUCATION COURSE AND CAREER OUTCOMES

However you choose to structure your study, La Trobe recognises your hard work. Here are the pathways you could follow as you move through your course.

Graduate Certificate in Mental Health for Education intended learning outcomes

Employ understandings of the experiences and perceptions of mental wellbeing in the context of family, school and community to contribute to the development and restoration of safe learning environments.

Create culturally safe learning environments through the use of respectful language and terminology, acknowledging the relationship between culture and wellbeing.

Participate in cross disciplinary teams to promote universal approaches to wellbeing, demonstrating a functional understanding of mental health systems and community support resources available to schools and individuals.

Lead school-based teams in the design and implementation of context-specific whole school and person-centred responses to wellbeing needs including strategies for promoting relational advocacy, collaborative conversations and evidence-based practices.

Graduate Certificate in Mental Health for Education career opportunities

After graduation, you'll have the tools you need to identify and manage mental health issues in schools. You'll also have the skills to work for better mental health outcomes for students in government and not-for-profit agencies or educational and mental health organisations.

You could take your career further as a:

Mental health and wellbeing coordinator

Special education teacher

Education consultant

Mental health advocate or policy writer

Research program development officer