Community Helpers Program (CHP) is an Alberta Health Service funded certificate program. This free training initiative is available to schools, workplaces, and community organizations for people who have a natural tendency to help others.
The Community Helpers Program strengthens an individual’s existing supportive skills and provides the knowledge necessary to support the mental health and well-being of others through a variety of topics: effective communication, self-care, healthy boundaries, the ethics of helping, handling crisis situations, and suicide awareness.
Modules Include
Ethics, Assumptions and Labels
- Doing the Right Thing: Helping Ethics
- Assumptions We Make About Others
- Supporting Each Other
Setting the Stage for Helping
- Earache/Psychache: Common Language
- Tuning In to The Need For Help
- The Foundations of Helping: Listening and Attending
Understanding Suicide
- Suicide Facts and Myths
- Suicide: The Community Helper’s Role
For More Information Please Contact:
Jayden Sydoruk (she/her)
Community Helpers Program Coordinator
Phone: 780-539-6680
Email: helpers@sp-rc.ca