Courses, skills and professional development for learners across Africa, the Caribbean and around the world.
Free Training
Suicide Awareness Training is a short, practical online course designed to help you recognise when someone may be struggling with thoughts of suicide, feel more confident starting a conversation, and understand what to do next.
Free · Approximately 30 minutes · Suitable for anyone aged 16 and over
Our courses
Browse a selection of our programmes.
Every course opens directly in our Tutor LMS learning environment.
Essential GDPR Awareness offers a clear understanding of GDPR’s core principles, data subject rights, and compliance strategies. This course covers key topics such as legal bases for data processing, data breach response, and cross-border data transfers, ensuring participants are equipped to manage and protect personal data in line with GDPR requirements.
This free CPD course gives clear, practical awareness of prostate health, with a focus on prostate cancer and the value of acting…
Suicide Awareness Training is a short, practical online course designed to help you recognise when someone may be struggling with thoughts of…
This course equips professionals, practitioners and anyone interested in personal growth with the knowledge and practical skills to understand trauma, rebuild confidence…
This course provides learners with a practical, trauma-informed approach to safeguarding children, young people, and adults at risk. It explores how trauma…
This course equips mental health professionals, and anyone who works with young people, with the knowledge and practical strategies to identify trauma…
Working with young people who are involved in or vulnerable to criminal exploitation, violence, trauma or high-risk behaviour requires more than goodwill…
Harm does not start at the point of gang affiliation. This 7-hour, trauma-informed CPD course addresses the vulnerabilities and pathways of girls…
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the immigration process for Ontario. It explores provincial pathways, eligibility criteria, and the essential steps…
Our Community
IIFAL is an organisation focused on using education and skills development to support people and communities. Our work reaches across:
We connect learners and educators across Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora — sharing knowledge, culture and opportunity across borders.
Our courses are built for real lives and real communities. Practical, relevant and rooted in the realities our learners navigate every day.
From essential skills to professional development, we help individuals grow — and through them, strengthen families and whole communities.
“Every learner has the potential to succeed, regardless of the obstacles they may face.”
— The IIFAL Promise
Celebrating the learners, instructors and achievements that make IIFAL a global force in education.
Diaspora
IIFAL was built to serve learners across Africa, the Caribbean and the global diaspora. Our online courses, CPD and skills training are accessible wherever you live, so you can keep learning, stay connected to your communities and build the skills that support life, work and progress.
For Organisations
IIFAL supports NGOs, schools, healthcare trusts, government bodies and businesses with accessible online learning — from off-the-shelf CPD to bespoke programmes built around your people.
Learning areas
CPR, first aid, positive mental health, suicide awareness, autism and nutrition.
Safeguarding, education and learning-related subjects for those who care for others.
Skills that support personal development, confidence and progression.
The Learner Journey
A clear, frictionless path. Once you enter a course, Tutor LMS takes care of your learning experience.
Browse the catalogue and find what fits your goals.
Read the syllabus, level and what you’ll learn.
Join the course through our IIFAL learning platform.
Access your learner account and dashboard.
Complete your course, track your progress and earn your certificate.
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