🌿 Self-Care & Wellness

Build Resilience Before You Need It

Taking care of yourself is not an afterthought — it is part of being prepared.

Our Canadian Red Cross Self-Care & Wellness course is designed to help you better understand stress, strengthen your coping strategies, and build a realistic self-care plan you can actually use when life gets busy, difficult, or overwhelming.

Unlike Mental Health First Aid programs that focus on helping someone during a mental health emergency, Psychological First Aid is a resilience-based program for everyone. It focuses on prevention, coping, recovery, and practical strategies for navigating stress and challenging experiences.

💻 + 👥 How the Course Works

This blended course includes both a self-directed online component and an instructor-led in-person workshop.

1. Psychological First Aid – Self-Care Online

45–90 minutes | Self-paced

Complete the online component at your own pace before attending the workshop.

You’ll explore:

• How stress can affect us
• Personal coping strategies
• The foundations of self-care
• Ways to strengthen resilience before and during difficult situations

2. Instructor-Led Self-Care & Wellness Workshop

1.5–2 hours | In person

The classroom component takes what you learned online and makes it practical.

Through:

• Case-based learning
• Group discussion
• Guided reflection
• Real-life examples

you’ll work through self-care principles and develop a personalized plan you can carry forward into everyday life.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Develop a practical self-care plan
• Identify strategies that support healthy coping
• Better anticipate periods of increased stress
• Strengthen personal resilience
• Apply self-care principles during challenging situations
• Reflect on what helps you recover, reset, and stay well

This course is not about pretending stress does not exist. It is about building the tools to respond to it more effectively.

👤 Who Is This Course For?

This program is valuable for individuals, workplaces, teams, community groups, first responders, caregivers, educators, parents, and anyone looking to become more intentional about their own wellness.

Recommended age: 16 years and older
Adult support is recommended for younger participants.

⏱️ Course Duration

• Online component: approximately 45–90 minutes
• Instructor-led workshop: approximately 1.5–2 hours

✅ Completion Requirements

To successfully complete the course, participants must:

• Complete the Psychological First Aid – Self-Care online course
• Participate in 100% of the instructor-led classroom component

🎓 Certification

Successful participants receive a:

Canadian Red Cross Self-Care & Wellness Certification

Valid for 1 year

📘 Participant Materials

Course materials include:

• Psychological First Aid – Self-Care online course
• Self-care planning tools
• Optional Look, Listen, Link, Live reference cards

💡 Already Taken Psychological First Aid – Self-Care?

Even if you have completed the online Self-Care course previously, the Canadian Red Cross recommends refreshing your knowledge and revisiting your self-care plan.

The Psychological First Aid – Self-Care online component is included as part of this course package.

❤️ Why Rural Rescue Offers This Course

We spend a lot of time teaching people what to do when someone else needs help.

This course asks an equally important question:

What are you doing to make sure you have something left in the tank, too?

At Rural Rescue, we believe confidence is not only knowing CPR, First Aid, or emergency response skills. It is also understanding your own stress, recognizing when you need to reset, and having practical tools to help yourself through difficult days.

👉 Register today and invest in the person you rely on every single day — you.