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Opportunities for self-paced training modules to earn CE units or certificates of completion.
The Mental Health Technology Transfer Center is funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and provides free webinars around mental health for school mental health professionals and school leadership. This 5-hour series focuses on the unique challenges and considerations for mental health practitioners, educators, and parents face when they respond to mental health crises and the risk of suicide in a school setting. Learn recommended best practices for assessing children and adolescents for suicide and initiating appropriate responses to youth experiencing thoughts of suicide in a K-12 school setting. Free certificates of completion are available. Option available for 5 contact-hour CE units for a small fee.
This course was developed by the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center with funding by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This 12 hour course offers recommendations to cultivate a compassionate school community that will buffer against the negative effects of trauma, build resilience for all students, and provide stress-relief and enhanced well-being for teachers and other school personnel as well as students. Participants will learn how to implement the Compassionate School Mental Health model being used to enhance services to schools and districts in the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center's Childhood Trauma-Learning Collaborative. Learn about the neurobiology of trauma and toxic stress, how it affects staff and student well-being, and best practices for preventing, responding to, and alleviating the effects of trauma. Get guidance on developing a vision to transform into a compassionate school community that includes the voices of many stakeholders. Gain understanding of how a compassionate school mental health support system can help schools create systems, policies, and protocols to prevent, address, and recover from tragedies and crises including staff or student suicide, school violence, natural disasters, and global pandemics.
The Mental Health Technology Transfer Center is funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and provides free webinars around mental health for school mental health professionals and school leadership. This 6-hour course builds capacity of frontline interdisciplinary personnel to address the mental health needs of children and youth in schools by embedding strategies through the day. Learn how to implement the Every Moment Counts model programs and strategies with an interdisciplinary team. Free 6.0 contact-hour certificate of completion.
The Mental Health Technology Transfer Center is funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and provides free webinars around mental health for school mental health professionals and school leadership. Mental health care professionals commit time and energy to the care of others every day, yet it can be difficult to find the time and energy to address their own self-care. This 3-hour course offers self-care strategies, practices, and wellness frameworks to increase resilience and flourish in one’s personal and professional life. At the conclusion of this course, participants will know about self-care strategies to survive and thrive, frameworks and strategies, and personal and professional resilience. Free certificate of completion. Option available for 3 contact-hour CE units for a small fee.
Free 1 hour webinar with CE titled DSM-5 Differential Diagnosis for Clients with a History of Trauma: Four Steps to Accurate Diagnosis. Dr. Margaret Bloom reviews a 4-step framework to help guide you to the most accurate diagnosis possible.
Free 6.25 CEs! Compassion Fatigue Certification Training for Healthcare, Mental Health and Caring Professionals with Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD, C-IAYT. Exposing yourself to the trauma your clients and patients are experiencing daily can leave you feeling worn down, burdened by the suffering of others, and dreading your next day on the job. This is Compassion Fatigue. And it’s a threat to the safety of your patients, your own wellbeing, your relationships, and your career. Compassion Fatigue Certification Training for Healthcare, Mental Health and Caring Professionals can help you rediscover your resiliency and optimism so you can perform at your best for your clients.
Free offering of lifetime access to the comprehensive online certification training for telehealth. Therapy is changing. Connecting face-to-face with clients is more difficult than ever. Telehealth is all but required for any clinician with hopes of growing their practice. Like any new therapy method, there are questions that need to be answered before you add it to your offerings: Are there compliance risks? Is distance therapy even effective? How do I get started?
In this free, 12-hour certification training you’ll get those answers and more! Complete this 12-hour training, and you’ll have the education you need to become a Certified Clinical Telemental Health Provider (CTMH); however, there are more steps and a fee to obtain certification.
Free 1.5 hours webinar with CE in which Dr. Barkley reviews more than 80 recommendations and proven strategies to help children and adolescents with ADHD.