Farm Families Mental Health project is based out of DCU.

The project is

• A complementary mental health awareness training for farming family members to help them to support those around them.
• This is a 1hr training aimed at equipping participants with the skills and knowledge to support those around them, helping shift the culture of self-reliance and build a community of trust and support in rural Ireland.
• The training is a 1hr psychoeducational training that explores mental health help-seeking, help offering and stigma among farming populations and provides practical steps on how to engage with someone who may be in distress along with the resources available to rural populations. It is broken up into 4 sections, 1) The who and why; 2) What can be done; 3) What can be done and; 4) How you can help. The training is designed as an upstream population-level intervention to help create the early support capacity within farm family members/rural populations.

Please find a brief document above on what the training is and what would be required for participation along with how to get in contact with the organiser Jack Sweeney (jack.sweeney@dcu.ie). He states; As we are targeting rural populations, we do require the participants to come together and organise the times and venues for the training.

Jack has said if any of you want to reach out to him for more details etc he’s always more than happy to help.

jack.sweeney@dcu.ie

(Jack Sweeney , Research Ireland Funded Research Assistant | School of Health and Human Performance | Dublin City University)