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Earn your Be There CertificateA free, online course to learn how to safely support someone who is struggling with their mental health. Learn at your own pace with interactive lessons you can save and come back to later.Earn your Be There Certificate Skip to main contentCookies on our websiteWe use essential cookies to make our website work.With your permission, we’d also like to use analytics and marketing cookies to understand how people use our site, improve our programs, and measure campaign performance to help fund more work. View our Privacy Policy for more information, or to change your preferences at any time.Accept all cookiesDeny all cookiesPreferences Cookie PreferencesWhen you visit websites, they may store or retrieve data in your browser. This storage is often necessary for the basic functionality of the website. The storage may be used for marketing, analytics, and personalization of the site, such as storing your preferences. 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If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call a helpline (like these), 9-1-1 or emergency services or go to your nearest emergency department for assistance.Be There Certificate®Learn to support someone struggling with their mental health through this online course created by Jack.org in partnership with Born This Way Foundation. Get StartedResume LearningCreate AccountLog InAbout the Be There CertificateThe Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced learning experience designed to increase mental health literacy and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to safely support anyone who may be struggling with their mental health. It provides a deep understanding of Be There’s 5 Golden Rules — a simple but actionable framework on how to recognize when someone might be struggling with their mental health, your role in supporting that person, and how to connect them to the help they deserve.6 interactive lessonsLess than 2 hoursFree of chargeAvailable in French, English and SpanishVideos and real life scenariosUnlimited accessYou'll learn: How to recognize signs of struggle What to say to start the conversation How to build trust and offer practical support Tips to become a better listener The importance of setting healthy boundaries How to help someone access professional and community resources How to maintain your own mental healthWhy get certified:Support your loved ones Just talking about mental health isn’t enough. We need the knowledge, skills, and confidence to step up and be there for one another.Improve your own mental health Your mental health is just as important as anyone else’s. Learn to recognize your limits and take care of yourself, even while supporting others.Build your resume It’s a competitive world out there! Whether applying to college, a new job or a volunteer opportunity, the Be There Certificate shows that you care about the people around you and know how to maintain your own mental health.The Be There Certificate is an essential resource for any person looking to strengthen their knowledge about how to support folks in times of stress or struggle, as well as ways to care for ourselves. One of my favourite components of the course is its diversity, not only in the learning content, but also in the ways that different experiences, cultures, bodies, and languages are celebrated throughout the course.Emily Sather|Mental Health Advocate, Disability Support Worker, Soon-to-be Social WorkerThe Be There Certificate is a creative and engaging approach to learning how to safely support our friends and loved ones with their mental health. With encouraging prompts and a variety of interactive activities, the course supports several learning styles.Joyce Erogun|Student Engagement Team Lead, SMH-ONThis course was an easy-to-use, straight forward and interactive way to further strengthen how  I can be there for my loved ones! I’m thankful to have access to a tool like this and recommend it to anyone who also wants to learn how to support their loved ones through difficult times.Angelica Buccini|Youth mental health advocateThank you to our partners!FAQsExperiencing issues on the site? Accessing as a group? Sometimes our site struggles with loading when groups try to access it at once. Please refresh the page, if you're still having issues please try again later.A gentle reminder to any groups to please refrain from completing the Be There Certificate course on one account. Our course was designed for individual use, and our team is unable to download individual certificates to send to groups. We kindly encourage everyone to please complete the course on your individual accounts.Struggling to log in? Try signing up with an email address and password instead of the Facebook or Google sign in options.Struggling to load a page? Sometimes we experience loading difficulties when lots of people are learning how to Be There at once. It might help to refresh the page, wait a bit or come and learn again later.The page is crashing? Uh-oh, if the page has crashed or you see an "application didn't respond in time" message, the site is too busy at the moment. Please try and refresh the page, or come back later.Repeating a section? If the continue button took you back to the section start, click Course Outline/Progress to see if it has saved. If it hasn’t, please complete this section again. We’re trying to fix this as soon as we can!Something else? Please contact BeThere@Jack.org with a description of what’s happened and we will get our best people on the case.Who provides the Be There Certificate? The Be There Certificate is offered by Jack.org, a Canadian youth mental health charity, in partnership with Born This Way Foundation.How can I be awarded the Be There Certificate? You can download a PDF of your certificate after completing all six modules of the free Be There Certificate online course.What is the research behind the Be There Certificate? The Be There Certificate is based on the content on BeThere.org, a resource created by Jack.org in response to a needs assessment of over 1,200 youth. We compiled the top 73 most common questions we heard from young people and scoured dozens of websites, blogs, articles and other resources to find the answers. It wasn’t easy; existing resources are fragmented, hard to find and full of impersonal clinical jargon. But the answers are out there (we didn’t make this stuff up!) we just had to find it and translate it into accessible language. References can be found in our Building Be There PDF.Read all FAQsLet’s create a world where we can all better support one another. Get StartedThe trademark BE THERE CERTIFICATE / CERTIFICAT ÊTRE LÀ is owned by Jack.orgCreated by AboutContactTerms of ServiceResourcesAdminenen1775034146https://betherecertificate.org

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