Be There

Learn to support someone struggling with their mental health

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The Be There Certificate is a free learning resource designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to safely support anyone who's struggling with their mental health.

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Through 5 Golden Rules for mental health support, Be There explores 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.

Get Be There Certified

We all need the knowledge, skills, and confidence to support someone struggling with their mental health. The Be There Certificate provides you with a framework for giving support and builds your confidence by providing real life scenarios and activities to practice being there.

6 interactive lessons

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Less than 2 hours to complete

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Free Online Course

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Available in French, English and Spanish

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Golden rules

A practical guide to help you support someone struggling with their mental health.

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Be There’s 5 Golden Rules - a simple and actionable framework, teaching people how to recognize when someone might be struggling, understand their role in supporting that person, and learn how to connect them to the help they need

Say what you see

Learn how to break the ice and start the conversation

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Show you care

Learn how to build trust and support someone

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Hear them out

Learn to be an active listener and balance the conversation

Know your role

Learn to set boundaries to protect your relationship and your mental health

Connect to Help

Learn to access professional and community resources and what to expect from them

Questions?

We've got answers

What is the research behind building Bethere.org?

BeThere.org, is an online resource created by Jack.org in response to a needs assessment of over 1,200 youth. We compiled the most commonly asked 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.

Why did we build the Be There Certificate?

Since Be There’s launch, we received requests from young people and educators for a more formal online training program they can use to earn official recognition for their skill-building. That’s where the new Be There Certificate comes in. The Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced, interactive learning experience that dives deeper into Be There content and charts progress of participants learning through lesson badges and a certificate of completion.

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.

Thank you to our Partners

Our generous partners support the development of innovative youth-informed programs that ensure we continue to reach the young people who need it most, when they need it, and in the ways that matter to them.