Certificate in Child and Youth Mental Health
Join a comprehensive hybrid program designed for parents, teachers, and therapists. Gain practical, evidence-based tools to support the emotional well-being and development of children and adolescents.
Our Certificate Course in Child and Youth Mental Health is led by a diverse faculty of experienced practitioners. This image serves as an introduction to the team of psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists who will guide you through the program.
This graphic outlines who our CYMH course is for: parents, students, therapists, and educators. It details the online format and start date for the 13th batch, making it easy to see if the program is the right fit for you.
We offer two flexible learning paths in our CYMH course. This visual breaks down the Foundation and Advanced modules, explaining the topics covered in each, from the basics of child development to deeper clinical understanding of therapy frameworks and interventions.
Our CYMH course is designed for flexible, accessible learning. This graphic illustrates the course format, which includes live teaching videos, weekly expert-led sessions for Q&A, and self-paced study you can fit into your schedule.
We believe in learning that is interactive and applied. This image explains our course pedagogy, which combines self-paced videos and readings with interactive live sessions and simple assignments to help you integrate knowledge into practice.
An announcement for our Certificate Course in Child and Youth Mental Health, highlighting the limited seats and the end of the early bird discount. The online format combines live sessions with recorded videos for a flexible learning experience.
Curious about our Child and Youth Mental Health course? One of our faculty members explains the broad themes we cover, from neurodivergence and parenting to a range of therapeutic approaches, and details the flexible structure of our foundation and advanced modules.
Announcing our upcoming Foundation and Certificate Course in Child and Youth Mental Health. This program is designed to expand the community of care for children and is open to parents, social workers, therapists, and learners from any field.
Here are the key details for our CYMH course, including dates, live session timings, and the structure of our two modules. We offer early bird and group discounts to make the program more accessible.
This graphic provides a look into Level 1 of our CYMH course curriculum. It details the themes covered in the Neurodivergence Series, including understanding ADHD, sensory processing difficulties, and autism in the early years.
About Certificate in Child & Youth Mental Health (CYMH)
You don't just learn from videos in this program. Every Saturday, we host live Q&A sessions where you can discuss real cases with our senior consultants, ensuring the theory connects directly to your daily work with children.
A Program Built on Real-World Practice
This course is not just about certification; it is about building a community. We have designed this program for anyone invested in a child’s well-being—whether you are a parent trying to better understand your child, a teacher creating an inclusive classroom, or a therapist looking to sharpen your clinical tools.
How You Will Learn
We use a hybrid model to make learning flexible yet deeply engaging. You receive access to self-paced teaching videos that you can watch whenever you have the time, but the core of our pedagogy is interaction. Through our live online Q&A sessions held every Saturday, you get to apply the concepts to real scenarios, share experiences with peers, and learn from our faculty of psychologists and therapists who work in the field every day.
Core Modules
Our curriculum is divided into two flexible paths to suit your current knowledge and professional goals:
- Foundation Module (Level 1): Covers the basics of child development, trauma, and the Neurodivergence Series. This module helps you understand the building blocks of ADHD, autism, and sensory processing differences.
- Advanced Module (Level 1 + 2): Goes deeper into clinical and systemic understanding. This includes modules on therapy frameworks, Scaffolding Neurodivergence, and the Mental Health Series, which addresses depression, anxiety, and addiction.
Why This Approach Matters
For over 15 years, our practice at Children First has been rooted in the belief that the child is not the problem. We train you in a non-blaming, neurodiversity-affirming approach that prioritizes the child's perspective. When you complete this course, you are equipped with practical skills that you can apply immediately in your school, clinic, or home.
Children First
We are Children First. For over 15 years, we’ve worked to shift how we support young people by focusing on belonging rather than just fixing. We see this training not as a lecture series, but as an opportunity to build a wider community of care, where we learn from each other’s stories as much as from clinical textbooks.
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