Behavioral Health Workforce Training Clearinghouse Updates

...for Massachusetts Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) and Behavioral Health Help Line (BHHL) staff and clinicians.

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In September We Highlight Suicide Prevention

Featured Resources & Online Training

Resources

Check out the Clearinghouse Resources page for ongoing updates.

We will be launching a self-paced online course on Suicide Prevention and Safety Planning next month!

The following two online trainings include suicide prevention strategies when someone is in crisis.

Mobile Crisis Intervention Core Training Series: Understanding the Crisis Response, Crisis De-escalation, and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention

The Mobile Crisis Intervention Core Training Series is 3-hours and comprised of three learning sessions. One session each on: understanding the crisis response, crisis de-escalation, and therapeutic crisis intervention. Understanding the crisis response provides a basic understanding of how the crisis is experienced in the brain and body and the crisis team’s overarching approach when responding to the crisis. Crisis de-escalation provides learners with an understanding of various strategies to help an individual move from a heightened state of arousal to a calmer state. Therapeutic crisis response covers key components of building rapid rapport, engaging in crisis assessment, providing stabilization, and co-creating an intervention plan. Together these three learning sessions weave in concepts from trauma-informed care, harm reduction, equity, and inclusion. They provide a foundational base of knowledge for responding to a behavioral health crisis.

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Trauma-Informed Crisis Response and De-Escalation

This 30 min training, Trauma-Informed Crisis Response and De-Escalation is designed to offer an understanding of trauma, its impact and how this may contribute to difficult encounters with our clients. In this training, we will review some basic principles of what trauma is and how it effects the brain. More specifically, how the brain’s arousal system perceives danger or threat when addressing challenging encounters with program staff. We will explore what and how a trauma related trigger may contribute to challenges in developing a safe and therapeutic relationship with your client. We will review safe approaches in addressing a client who may be struggling and offer strategies to de-escalate a difficult encounter, manage your reactions and safety, and create an opportunity to provide your client effective coping strategies.

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Live Online Training

LAST CHANCE!

1 Live Online Training Now Available for Registration

Introductory Workshop for Motivational Interviewing

Speaker: John Rodolico, PhD, is the Director of Military and Veteran Consultation at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Part-Time at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rodolico is committed to using evidence-based treatments to help people with substance use disorders across the life span and his experience working with adolescent addictions spans over 30 years.

Description: The Motivational Interviewing approach has been researched extensively in diverse settings, including primary care, mental health, addictions, education, and facilities under the department of corrections. Continuously evolving MI strategies has necessitated ongoing education for all types of healthcare workers.

This 4-hour live Zoom introductory workshop held over two days is designed to help a variety of behavioral health professionals interested in learning the basic MI principles to translate that knowledge into practice. The workshop will review the four processes, spirit of MI, patient-centered communications skills, change and sustain talk, and approaches to people who are “resistant” to change. Multiple learning approaches will be used throughout the course, including didactics, video demonstrations, role-plays, and small group discussions.

Schedule:

September 16, 2024: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm and September 17, 2024: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm.

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Leadership Corner

LAST CHANCE for Clinical Supervisors ...

Clinical Supervision Training Focus Group

Please join a focus group discussion on September 24th from 12:00-1:00 to shape and define clinical supervision training development. We're excited to hear your feedback and dialogue related to learning topics for future clinical supervision training!

Self-Paced Online Training

37 Self-Paced Online Trainings Now Available

To access Self-Paced Online Training a ForHealth Consulting Learning portal account is required. Need help logging in to access your training? Follow the full written or video instructions on the Resources>Online Training Access page. All courses are free and many are CE/CME credit-eligible!

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1 Self-Paced Online Training Added

Eating Disorders Throughout the Lifespan

This 1.5-hour online course will discuss the epidemiology of eating disorders (EDO), including prevalence and risk factors; diagnostic criteria and sub-types of EDOs; specialized levels of care for EDO; evidence-based therapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatments for EDO; and information regarding prognosis, monitoring, and relapse/remission for patients across the lifespan with EDO.

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2 Self-Paced Online Trainings Coming Soon

1 Self-Paced Online Training Expiring Soon

Effective Approaches to Caring for Individuals with Substance Use Disorder

Expiring 11/30/24

This 4-hour self-paced, online course focuses on evidence-based care with an emphasis on Relapse Prevention, Harm Reduction, Trauma Informed Care, and core principles from Motivational Interviewing. The course includes a review of practical strategies for:

Screening, assessment, and diagnosis
Addressing the needs of individuals with co-occurring mood disorders, anxiety, and trauma
Treating individuals using Nicotine, Alcohol, and Opioids
Supporting the use of medications
Privacy and coordination of care with family members

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1 Self-Paced Online Training to Consider

Brain Injury, Screening and Resources

This brief training provides an overview of brain injury and a screening tool that BH Clinicians can utilize in their work. The connection between brain injury and behavioral health is becoming more recognized and pertinent in our everyday work. This training looks at the bi-directional relationship between brain injury and behavioral health, high-risk populations, and the importance of screening for brain injury in behavioral health settings. Understand how to identify potential exposures to brain injury and how it can support someone’s ongoing engagement in behavioral health treatments and services.

Online Brain Injury Screening and Support System or OBISSS is a tool that can support providers, agencies, and community champions to identify potential exposures to a brain injury and support someone with potential cognitive impairments. Learn about the basics of brain injury, histories, and populations that could indicate a potential risk for brain injury. A review of valuable accommodations, available state services, and community-based resources to support someone with a potential brain injury are discussed.

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Live Group Consultation

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Group consultation with subject matter experts to support clinicians on specific evidence-based treatments will be offered throughout the year.

Please contact BHClearinghouse@umassmed.edu

if you are interested in future Group Consultations.

The BH Clearinghouse website has numerous General, State Agency-specific, and Technical Assistance (TA) Resources for Fidelity Assessments and Coaching Models to assist you in leading your clinical teams.

Resources

The BH Clearinghouse website Resources tab contains training access instructions, continuing education (CE) credit information, Job Aids & Resources, and historical BH Clearinghouse newsletters. Check it out!

Continuing Education Credits (CEs)

Additional CEs and CMEs are being added to online courses as we receive them. Check the bottom of each course page for a listing.

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