Trainings

AFSP Interactive Screening Program

AFSP’s interactive Screening Program is used by mental health services at hundreds of schools, workplaces and other organizations, giving people a safe and anonymous way to reach out for support. ISP has connected over 180,000 people to help they would not have sought otherwise.

AFSP Project 2025

Project 2025 is an initiative lead by AFSP with the goal to reduce the national suicide rate 20 percent by the year 2025. As a catalyst, AFSP brings together leaders in their respective fields to collaborate on new ideas and solutions in four critical areas identified as having the greatest chance to save the most lives in the shortest amount of time.

CCBHC Consulting

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) have revolutionized behavioral health care and strengthened services for those who most need them. CCBHCs are a new provider type in Medicaid â€“ organizations defined not just by the comprehensive array of services they provide.

Case to Care Management Consulting

Position your organization for success in the changing health care landscape by taking the lead in case to care management. As health care reform advances and health homes become the norm, behavioral health case managers are in demand.

More knowledgeable and better skilled case managers can effectively move your organization toward a broader care management approach, applying their experience to the new world of health homes, integrated care and more â€” while providing you with a new marketable service for the broader health care system.

Crisis Text Line Crisis Counselor Training

Crisis Counselors answer texts from people in crisis, bringing them from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning. This all begins with training. In 30 hours, you’ll walk away knowing reflective listening, collaborative problem solving, and crisis management.

DBSA Course: Living Successfully with a Mood Disorder

This DBSA course is designed to help both people living with mood disorders as well as people who want to learn more about mood disorders. The course is designed in three video sessions that help people with mood disorders create goals, explore treatment options, and make a plan for living successfully with a mood disorder.

DBSA Peer Support Specialist Course

DBSA offers a 5-week Peer Support Specialist Course that gives students the opportunity to reflect on their own mental health journey and develop specific skills that will help them work effectively with peers. Their course blends independent study with real-time distance learning, and also includes a 5-day Building the Skills workshop where students will engage in live role play and discussion.

Eating Disorders Community Education & Trainings

The Alliance offers an extensive array of outreach and educational programs, including presentations providing continuing education units for licensed professionals across the country. Presentations address a variety of topics related to eating disorders, co-occurring mental illnesses, trauma, and other topics. Training may be provided to mental health clinicians, healthcare professionals, treatment facilities, social service agencies, community organizations, schools, and more.

Fountain House: Social Practice

This Fountain House resource guides folks on social practice, a non-clinical treatment approach that uses an intentional community to help people with mental health conditions. This resource takes people through the five key elements of social practice: social design, engagement, relationship development, natural feedback and intervention, and transitional environments.

Integrated Health Consulting

The National Council’s wide array of training and consultation fosters effectiveness, efficiency and sustainable integrated services to improve the overall health and wellness of individuals who are at risk for and living with chronic health conditions including mental health concerns and addictions. Our team of consultants have expertise in organizational readiness, integrated care models, workforce and clinical practice, health and wellness, and financing and sustainability. We will partner with you to create a customized approach to advance integrated care and health outcomes.

Just Five

Just Five is an online, self-paced, mobile enabled program focusing on increasing awareness, reducing stigma, and sharing information about addiction prevention and treatment. Just Five includes six five-minute learning experiences. Lessons combine animated and expert videos, interactive learning, and supplemental materials. The program is available directly through employers.

Mental Health First Aid Training

Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches people how to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges. Courses are available for different populations, including Veterans, Fire and EMS, Public Safety, Youth, Teens and more. You can sign up for a training near you at https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/.

Middle Management Academy

The Middle Management Academy is the only program of its kind designed specifically for future health care leaders. It’s an intensive, practical and highly interactive training steeped in proven business strategy that helps participants understand what great managers do differently. It gives managers the skills they need to manage work and people as it connects them to the bigger vision of their organizations. They become stronger links in the management chain who motivate staff and improve productivity by communicating effectively and fulfilling their role as influential frontline leaders.

Mind Share Partners works with global organizations across industry and size to create mentally healthy workplaces. We offer discounted services to qualifying nonprofits and advocacy organizations.

Motivational Interviewing Consulting

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective communication tool to help people living with mental illness, addictions and other chronic conditions make positive behavioral changes to support their overall health. Based on four fundamental processes â€” engaging, focusing, evoking and planning â€” it provides a framework for creating a dialogue about behavior change. Health care providers can use these tools to create conversations that empower the people you treat to make meaningful changes.

NAMI Basics OnDemand

NAMI Basics is a 6-session education program for parents, caregivers and other family who provide care for youth (ages 22 and younger) who are experiencing mental health symptoms. This program is free to participants, 99% of whom say they would recommend the program to others. NAMI Basics is available both in person and online through NAMI Basics OnDemand.

NAMI Family & Friends Seminar

NAMI Family & Friends is a free 90-minute or four-hour seminar that informs people who have loved ones with a mental health condition how to best support them. It’s also an opportunity to meet other people in similar situations and gain community support.

NAMI Family-to-Family Program

NAMI Family-to-Family is a free, 8-session educational program for family, significant others and friends of people with mental health conditions. It is a designated evidenced-based program. This means that research shows that the program significantly improves the coping and problem-solving abilities of the people closest to a person with a mental health condition. It not only provides information and strategies for taking care of the person you love, but you’ll also find out that you’re not alone.

NAMI Seattle Professional & Community Trainings

NAMI Seattle offers interactive trainings for your staff, community group, or leadership team on a variety of mental health topics. Trainings are 1.5 to 2 hours long and facilitated by NAMI Seattle staff.

National Certified Peer Specialist Certification

The National Certified Peer Specialist (NCPS) certification is a voluntary, examination-based certification that allows peers to demonstrate a high level of experience and competencies in peer support. The NCPS does not replace state certifications but is an add-on to required state certifications. Individuals who earn the NCPS go above and beyond state certification to show their leadership and commitment to the growth and advancement of the field.

Practice Transformation Academy

The Practice Transformation Academy works with organizations to achieve the necessary competencies for operating in a value-based payment arrangement. This unique program combines in-person, one-on-on coaching with a web-based curriculum to educate providers in population health, how to effectively stratify their clients by risk and how to respond to client risk levels effectively by developing patient-centered care pathways. We also teach you effective project management, how to understand costs and data associated with value-based contracts, current contracting trends and how to articulate the organization’s value in contract negotiations.

RAINN

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es) in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.

Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral Consulting

Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce and prevent risky substance use. Health care and social service organizations have found that SBIRT can bolster an organization’s capabilities to address co-occurring disorders and implement integrated care. Through our training and coaching, participants learn how to use evidence-based screening tools to determine alcohol and drug use risk levels, respond with a brief intervention and operationalize referral to treatment.

Silence the Shame Corporate Wellness Services

STS partners with skilled facilitators to offer evidenced and research-based mental health and suicide prevention workshops and seminars to increase mental health literacy and promotion for businesses & companies, communities, schools, and faith institutions.

Suicide Prevention Training

The Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center offers several trainings in suicide prevention and treatment. We have specialized trainings for adolescents, adults, first responders, mental health professionals, among others. The length of trainings and costs vary. For more information or to schedule a training, call (424) 362-2909.

The Trevor Project Crisis Counselor Training

Digital Crisis Counselors are trained to answer chats or texts from LGBTQ young people who reach out on our free, confidential and secure 24/7 service when they are struggling with issues such as coming out, LGBTQ identity, depression, and suicide. Throughout training, volunteers will cover topics including counseling skills, LGBTQ identity, the structure of a conversation on our crisis services, and relevant policies, procedures, and protocols to prepare them to speak with young people in crisis.

Trans Lifeline Volunteer Hotline Operator

Provide crisis support for your community that’s divested from cops—in English or Spanish. All our operators identify as trans/nonbinary/gender non-conforming, as we firmly believe we are the experts on our lived experiences. You’ll receive 36 hours of online training and join a community of trans peers across the country on our nationally accredited hotline.

Trauma-informed, Resilience-oriented Care

The National Council’s Trauma-informed, Resilience-oriented Care (TIROC) training and consulting practice has helped organizations in primary care, behavioral health, schools, community services, managed care and government settings achieve the quadruple aim of enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs and enhancing the work life of their staff.

Whole Health Action Management (WHAM)

Developed by peers, for peers, Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) empowers peer providers to support the whole health of clients in organizations and promote physical and mental health. Peers learn to conduct one-on-one and group peer support to create and sustain healthy behaviors and identify strengths and supports in 10 science-based whole health and resiliency factors. The program helps counter the high incidence of chronic physical health conditions â€“ such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity â€“ among people living with behavioral health conditions.

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