AWARE: Mental Health Awareness in Prison

This course aims to raise awareness of the inmates’ mental health in correctional facilities, offering participants the opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills in the area of mental health, specifically: defining health/mental illness and concepts of mental health, understanding the factors that influence mental health, and being aware of the difficulties associated with mental disease labels. By acquiring and developing these skills, prison professionals will be better equipped to detect and offer practical support for inmates that suffer from mental health disorders during their imprisonment and after release, so better outcomes are verified for those within the Criminal Justice system, including reducing reoffending. The target groups are non-specialized prison professionals. No prerequisite is required. This course has a total duration of 3h30  e-learning and consists of 3 modules. The AWARE  project was co-funded by the European Commission under the ERASMUS + programme - KA2 - Strategic partnerships for adult education. The course is available in English, German and Portuguese.

Practitioners interested in following the eLearning courses first need to create an account: https://aware-correctionslearning.talentlms.com/catalog