Offering an array of topics designed to enhance educational and skill development.
Topics for training include Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Informed Care, and many other topics.
These trainings are free for RADIAS Health Employees. If you are not an employee of RADIAS Health – please click here and use these forms to register for the training.
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9:00 am: Person-Centered Thinking, Planning and Client Rights: Whose Goal is it, Anyway?
The concept of Person-Centered Care is integral to how RADIAS approaches work we do with people we serve. This training provides a broad overview of the Person-Centered Approach in supporting persons served.
Participants will be able to:
Understand the context of person-centered care in Minnesota's systems
Be aware of examples of person-centered language (as well as language to avoid)
Practice using several tools to provide a person-centered approach
Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is an evidence-based practice (EBP) designed to help people diagnosed with mental illness learn new skills and knowledge to help manage their symptoms and stressors. You've likely heard people talking about it, or seen the big binder in your office. It's possible you've even looked into the binder and thought Geez, there's a lot of good stuff in here, but no way is Joe working on this binder with me. It looks boring! Come to this training, then - we'll explore the wonderful, 11 chapter world of IMR and we'll learn how to make the material come alive for your clients!
Objectives:
Participants will learn to assist clients in defining and setting recovery goals, understand how to help clients learn and practice skills, and how to structure sessions with clients
Participants will have a basic understanding of how to apply this practice in groups
Participants will receive a review of the IMR Modules
This course will give participants an overview of diagnoses most commonly seen in working with individuals who get services from RADIAS Health. Participants will be able to describe the diagnosis system and will be able to identify symptoms of mental illness. If you are new to the field, or want a refresher on things you may have forgotten in college or grad school, this course if for you!
Participants will learn about mental health diagnoses and symptoms as presented in DSM 5
Participants will reflect on the stigma of mental illness and its interplay for people we serve
Participants will discuss mental illness in the framework of cultural, social, political and racial perspectives
Participants will work on maintaining empathy for the people we serve in order to reduce stress and compassion fatigue
This training allows participants to learn and practice the evidence based practice of motivational interviewing.
1. Participants will be able to describe the following motivational strategies and techniques: Reflection, Affirmation, Summary, and Open-ended Questions. 2. Participants will learn how to identify, elicit and respond to Change Talk 3. Participants will learn effective ways to provide information.
This training will include a focus the use of task breakdown, individualized intervention planning, and the use of tools and formal structure to build skills for managing symptoms and skills across all functional domains.
Objectives:
Participants will receive training on the foundational principles of psychiatric rehabilitation
Participants will learn to connect symptoms to functioning, and functioning to intentional interventions.
This training allows participants to learn and practice the evidence based practice of motivational interviewing.
1. Participants will be able to describe the following motivational strategies and techniques: Reflection, Affirmation, Summary, and Open-ended Questions. 2. Participants will learn how to identify, elicit and respond to Change Talk 3. Participants will learn effective ways to provide information.
Homelessness is becoming more and more common among the people served by RADIAS Health. We offer this training to increase awareness, skill, and knowledge of available resources to support people we serve who are experiencing homelessness.
Objectives:
Attendees will be able to identify contributing factors to both short term and long-term homelessness
Attendees will learn strategies for engagement with people experiencing homelessness
Attendees will be aware of local resources available for persons who are in shelters and those who are living outdoors.
This half-day training will focus on learning suicide assessment and intervention skills. We will review the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale [CSSRS] that are located in our forms in Credible for all RADIAS Health Programs. We will learn how to administer the assessment while seeing clients in all settings. This training will eliminate assumptions that these forms are difficult to administer and use with clients. This training will also help with expanding your knowledge about the risks for suicide, assessing a client's suicidal behavior and ideation, and how to intervene. We will learn and practice safety planning.
Training objectives:
Develop wider knowledge of factors involved with suicide
Broaden one's experience with the Credible forms
Increase knowledge with assessing suicidal behavior
Expand skill set with crisis planning and assessment
This training will provide an overview of the civil commitment process with a focus on the case manager's role. We will review the steps leading up to commitment, the types of petitions, and what happens after someone is civilly committed. We will explain reporting requirements and revocations.
Objectives:
Learn steps to commitment process
Understand criteria for commitment and revocation
Understand types of petitions and orders
Learn reporting requirements and how to accurately prepare for the court
Let's face it - everybody has heard of this thing called CBT. Now is your chance to learn about what it actually is and ask the questions you were afraid to ask. Trust us, you're not the only one only pretending to know what the cognitive loop or cognitive restructuring is - this training will be open to all questions!
Objectives:
Participants will learn how the cognitive loop and how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are related to one another.
Participants will have an understanding of the role of CBT in treating Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.
Participants will be able to describe core concepts and how to apply CBT principles in their work, including how to form a basic CBT case conceptualization.
Participants will have an understanding of cognitive restructuring and the ABC framework.
Participants will increase their understanding of the definitions related to the LGBTQ+ community
Participants will review terminology pertaining to sex, gender identity, gender expression, gender role, and orientation - and the impacts on the lives of people who identify as LGBTQ+
Participants will become familiar with historical events pertaining to mental health, historical criminalization, social rights movements, and civil rights within the U.S.
Participants will gain understanding of current events
Participants will review common barrier and corresponding interventions pertaining to social, medical and systemic factors
Participants will become familiar with some of the health care services in the LGBTQ+ community
Participants are encouraged to explore their own biases related to this subject
Participants are encouraged to consider their role as an ally or as a member of the LGBTQ+ community and their work with individuals served
