Trauma-Informed FlourishCare Training and Certifications

The Community Health Worker (Tier 1) Foundational training prepares learners for certification as community health workers (CHWs) in the state of Kentucky. 

Our Trauma-Informed FlourishCare curriculum explores and applies all core competencies.

• Communication
• Use of public health concepts and approaches
• Organizational and community outreach
• Advocacy and community capacity building
• Care coordination and system navigation
• Health coaching
• Documentation, reporting and outcome management
• Legal, ethical and professional conduct

Community health work is a growing field of work, and our trauma-informed lens of training prepares learners to integrate community health work into any team for holistic care of all served. 

This curriculum is approved by the Kentucky Department for Public Health Office of Community Health Workers to provide Foundational (Tier 1) training for community health workers.

This foundational training is a state-required prerequisite to training as a family peer support specialist or youth peer support specialist. 

Learners explore the six competencies of family leadership in this 15-hour training.

• Leadership roles and styles
• Communication skills
• Decision-making skills
• Dealing with conflict
• Effective advocacy
• Collaboration and partnership 

This 30-hour training and certification training prepares learners with lived experience and a desire to assist others through peer support. Adult peer support specialists (PSS) are self-identified consumers of mental health, substance use, or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder services who have successfully completed the adult peer support specialist training. 

The role of a PSS is not to replace current clinical mental health staff but to offer additional and alternative options to help people in their efforts to recover. 

This curriculum explores the six competencies of adult peer support.

• Problem-solving
• Wellness recovery action plan
• Stages in the recovery process
• Effective listening skills
• Establishing recovery goals
• Using support groups to promote and sustain recovery. 

This is a 10-hour training that prepares learners to be certified as community support associates in Kentucky. Learners must have at least one year of full-time experience working with individuals who receive services for treatment of a mental health disorder or co-occurring disorder. 

The training covers ten competencies. 

• Engaging consumers and family members
• Behavioral health crisis management
• Self-advocacy and navigation skills
• Behavior modification: planning and implementation
• Ethics
• Cultural competency
• Documentation and regulations
• Mental health and substance use issues
• Strength-based approach to services
• Developmental perspectives across the lifespan

The Trager Institute is approved by the Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (DBHDID) to provide the above trainings.

This 30-hour training prepares learners to support children and families through peer support. Family peer support specialists are self-identified parents or other family members who have lived experience with a child client receiving services related to a mental health, substance use, or co-occurring mental health and substance use disability from at least one child-serving agency. 

The Trager Institute is approved by the Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (DBHDID) to provide this 30-hour training and certification.