Mental Health First Aid® Australia (MHFA™) discourage running the 12-14 hour MHFA Courses in 2 hour increments. This is for a range of reasons we've seen through our development and running of the program:
- The more occasions we require our participants to show up, the more likelihood there is that some participants will not attend all sessions and will fail to complete the course
- The natural flow and divisions between the sessions will be lost and learning will not be able to be built up in the same way (significant time will need to be spent on checking in with participants, refreshing previous learning and as Instructors will know - there's very little spare time in a MHFA course!).