23/04/2025
Do some quick maths with me
I'm often asked to justify how the Mental Health First Aid course can help save money.
I'm all about the people - but I do get it, the money matters.
Let's say your company invests in an MHFA course with me
🤝 We chat about how it can be embedded into the fabric of your company.
🎯 We look at baseline figures within your company: mental health absence/general absence/stress, engagement with Employee Assistance Programs, stigma barriers around mental health, in order to gauge the impact of the training.
🏋♀️ We build a team across disciplines and management levels.
🎉 We deliver the training and celebrate the certification within the company.
📣 We advertise the role, add email signatures, plan events and are proactively engaged in the workplace.
💪 We book quarterly debriefs with your team and me, to keep the energy for the role at a good level (included in the cost of the course)
1️⃣ In a whole year, we only have ONE conversation. 16 people have been trained, only one had a conversation.
They noticed someone on the desk opposite wasn't doing ok; they'd started coming in late, they looked really tired, they'd stopped eating lunch with the team.
The MHFA asked if they'd like to walk at some point.
They opened a conversation up sensitively exploring the changes in behaviour, asking with care whether there was opportunity to support the team mate. The team mate says they were just about to quit their job, they can't cope with what is going on at home and at work any more, they are at breaking point. Together the MHFA builds a plan for support, with some reasonable adjustment, some access to talking therapies with the EAP and a conversation with line management.
The team mate feels cared for in a really challenging season of their life and engages with the support.
The team mate doesn't leave the workplace - instead, they feel a sense of gratitude for the care they have had.
❗ Here's the maths:
🙁 Cost of re recruitment and training = £25,971 (average according to AI)
🧐 Cost of a course for 16 people @ £325pp = £5200 (discounts available for certain sectors)
🫨 That's a saving of £20,771!!!!!! And that's if only 1 person had a conversation!
🤯 Let's times that by all the MHFAiders on the course = £20,771 x 16 = £332,336!!! Ok, now we are talking big money.
This is without factoring the ripple effects on the family and support system of the person receiving help.
🥳 16 MHFA's, one game changing conversation each in a year, a saving of £332,336!!!
If you want to have a chat - I'm all ears - louise@mindcaretraining.com or pm me.
