Many clients in community behavioral health settings as well as probationers on active probation supervision struggle with co-occurring serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD). Engaging clients with co-occurring disorders can be difficult, as can case planning and/or treatment planning to determine appropriate case and/or treatment objectives. This training provides an overview of serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and the interplay between SMI and SUD in behavioral health and community supervision settings. Participants will learn and practice engagement techniques, motivation to change, and developing appropriate case and/or treatment plans for clients with co-occurring disorders.

Behavior change can be a challenging task. Utilizing the evidence-based approach of Motivational Interviewing has been proven to facilitate the change process and increase the likelihood of lasting behavioral change. Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered process focused on identifying and fostering the individual's intrinsic motivation for change and creating specific goals for achieve the desired change. Although Motivational Interviewing is a counseling style most often utilized by healthcare professionals, it can be an effective technique in a variety of fields including education, youth services, coaching/mentorship, and community corrections.

This course offers participants an overall understanding of the spirit and methodology of Motivational Interviewing (MI). Through interactive presentation, demonstration, and practice exercises, participants will learn:

• The history, definition, and purpose of MI

• The Spirit of MI: PACE

• MI General Principles: DERS

• MI Core Components: COARS

• 11 Essential Characteristics of MI

• MI 4-Step Fundamental Process: Engage, Focus, Evoke, Plan

• Stages of Change and how to identify the characteristics of each stage

• Helping Styles

• How to identify Change Talk and Sustain Talk: DARN(AC), EARS

• Basics of Goal Setting/Case Planning

Our Motivational Interviewing trainings can be tailored to meet the needs of your employees, based on your professional field!

Child and Family Team Meetings (CFTs) are at the core of Continuum of Care reforms in the sate of California and nationally. As a result , it is imperative agencies uphold the fidelity of Child and Family Teaming. As part of this training, our trainers can meet with your department to develop a plan for CFTs in the future. This includes CFT basics, building a CFT template for use during meetings, training for CFT facilitators, and more!

Many interventions in Community Behavioral Health and Community Supervision settings involve group facilitation. Whereas many existing group intervention training focus on specific curriculum, CCT has found that the training of facilitation techniques are lacking overall, and facilitators only trained in the specific curriculum become compliance monitors of the curriculum content, often missing important opportunities to engage their clients within the curriculum. This training will utilize motivation techniques to increase group facilitators' skill set to increase effective facilitation of any curriculum.

At times, Behavioral Health staff struggle with the rigors of compliance regulations in managed care settings. The language of public systems, insurers, and the State often feels cold and impersonal, whereas staff are often driven to service by deeply personal reasons. This training provides Behavioral Health Professionals an opportunity to explore the spirit of service, discuss in depth what brought them to a profession of service, and explore how to maintain compliance while keeping soul in their practice.

Employees in Community Behavioral Health and Community supervision settings (Probation/Parole) are exposed to extremely traumatic material. Whether it be holding space with clients who have ongoing complex trauma, reading police and Court reports with depraved and traumatic material, to witnessing matriculated struggles and “treatment failures” can be heavy weight for a professional to carry. Whereas departments often talk about “self care”, productivity and documentation demands often take precedent to staff care. Learn about compassion fatigue, secondary, vicarious, and sanctuary trauma. Learn self care techniques and learn how to develop community care interventions with your teams and in your departments.

Many clients in community based settings are mandated to participate and would not choose to participate if given the choice. Engaging clients and increasing amenability to treatment interventions are important to successful completions of programs and Probation/Parole, and increased community safety. Learn about the transtheoretical model of change (stages of change), practice the art of engagement, and learn how to match treatment and case plan objectives to the clients motivation for change.

With statutes like Mental Health Diversion and programs like Mental Health Court, Defense Attorneys often find themselves representing criminal defendants who suffer from severe mental illness, and whose mental illness often plays a role in the commission of the criminal offense. Whereas Court actions to divert criminal matters for treatment is ideal, how attorneys engage clients with mental illness, as well as their understanding of the mental health system is paramount to client success in court programs. This training will help attorneys understand the nuances of the community mental health system, as well as prepare them to engage clients with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders.