Table 3.

Content for Indigo-Local community health worker / service user training

Module title	Aims and objectives	Teaching methods
1. Mental health and mental illness	Aim: Learn about mental health and mental illness Objectives:  • Recognise behaviour that is a cause for concern  • Recognise the features of some mental illnesses  • Understand that people with mental illness need help from health care professionals	• Introductory lecture • Interactive activities:  1. What is normal behaviour; what is a cause for concern?  2. Small group discussion - Learning about mental health problems  3. Carousel - How can we teach our communities about mental health and mental illness?  4. Quiz - Mental health and mental illness
2. Human rights and mental illness	Aim: Learn about human rights and mental illness Objectives:  • Understand five human rights laws and how these relate to people with mental illness  • Feel equipped to help prevent human rights abuses in the community	• Introductory lecture • Interactive activities:  1. What would you do if...?  2. How do human rights laws relate to people with mental illness?  3. Case study discussion  4. Prisons and mental illness quiz
3. Caring for people with mental illness	Aim: Learn about caring for people with mental illness in the community Objectives:  • Understand the principles of mental health promotion and education  • Know how to refer somebody to a clinic  • Understand the principles of medication used to treat mental illnesses and recognise types of side-effects  • Understand the principles of monitoring recovery and assisting rehabilitation in the community	• Introductory lecture • Interactive activities:  1. Small group discussion - How can community health workers help?  2. Referral to a health clinic  3. Role play - Supporting recovery  4. Quiz - What community health workers need to know about treatment
4. Stigma and mental illness	Aim: Learn about stigma and mental illness Objectives:  • Understand the core problems in stigma  • Recognise examples of stigma  • Be aware of different ways to reduce stigma	• Introductory lecture • Interactive activities:  1. Guest speaker - Living with mental illness  2. Case study discussion  3. Designing posters  4. Group discussion - What does stigma and discrimination mean to you?
5. Practical steps	Aim: Learn about practical steps for promoting rights and reducing stigma Objectives:  • Have a workable plan about how to teach their community about mental illness, promote rights and reduce stigma	• Introductory lecture • Interactive activities:  1. Post-it notes - What I have learnt?  2. Practical steps - Planning of stigma reduction activities in the community