Mental Health Awareness Month 2025: Training that Turns Awareness into Action

May 1, 2025 | Articles

Key Takeaways:

  • Mental Health Awareness Month 2025 aims to turn awareness into action, focusing on building resilience and managing common mental health challenges.
  • Litmos offers a number of eLearning courses focused on mental health, including resources for recognizing and managing personal and workplace stress.
  • Courses such as Psychosocial Risk Management and Handling Personal Stress help employees and managers foster a healthier and more supportive workplace.

The theme of Mental Health Awareness Month in 2025 is “Turning Awareness into Action,” by encouraging individuals to prioritize their mental health by building resilience, managing challenges, and learning how to thrive.

In the workplace, learning can be a powerful tool for raising awareness of mental health issues. Mental Health America encourages individuals to reflect on the steps that they can take to support a healthier, more supportive world, from providing ongoing support to friends, to contacting policymakers to advocate for more mental health resources. At Litmos, we are spending the month of May exploring how learning can help us foster a more balanced and psychologically safe workplace.

Using learning to support mental health in the workplace

eLearning can give leaders, managers, and employees the tools and confidence to turn awareness into action when it comes to mental health. Here’s how:

1. Accessibility and Flexibility

Online training delivers huge benefits by reaching remote, agile, or casual workers with the skills and information they need. Learners can engage at their own pace, making it easier for them to identify, share, and care for their own mental health.

2. Engaging and Interactive Content

eLearning platforms often provide engaging and interactive content that can make mental health training more effective. Through videos, quizzes, discussion boards, and other interactive elements, employees can better grasp the importance of mental health awareness and action.

3. Consistent and Scalable Training

eLearning ensures that all employees receive the same quality of mental health training regardless of their location or work schedule. It allows organizations to scale training efforts efficiently, ensuring that mental health awareness becomes a core aspect of the workplace culture.

Online training can deliver huge benefits, reaching remote, agile, or casual workers with the skills and information they need.

How Litmos can help

Litmos has a new range of online courses designed to help build the skills and knowledge we all need to improve our mental health.

Awareness is the first step, and the Mental Health at Work is an excellent resource for all employees, helping them to be aware of their own mental health issues, build resilience and know when it’s a good time to share their challenges and get help.

If you’re a manager and want to learn the essentials of managing and maintaining good mental health, you can check out Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing.

And remember, as well as gaining essential knowledge and skills themselves, managers can improve mental health awareness culture and support culture by offering training resources like Handling Personal Stress to give employees tips for navigating these busy and stressful times, no matter whether they are remote, part-time, or contracting.

Litmos customers in the US, UK, and Australia can also access Psychosocial Risk Awareness courses, which can provide the knowledge that employees and managers need to recognize and minimize causes of the stresses of work and life in general:

– Psychosocial Risk Management (AU)
– Psychosocial Risk Awareness for Employees (AU)

As we navigate Mental Health Awareness Month 2025, it is crucial to recognize the importance of mental health in our daily lives. The array of courses offered by Litmos provides invaluable resources for both employees and managers to build resilience, manage stress, and foster a psychologically safe workplace.

Whether you are seeking to understand your own mental health better, learning to support your team, or managing psychosocial risks, we hope that Litmos courses can be a crucial first step in taking action to support mental health awareness.

To learn more about how Litmos courses can help you contribute to a healthier, more supportive work environment, check out the full Litmos course catalog.