Trauma-Informed FlourishCare Training and Certifications
Launch a new career in behavioral health
Do you have personal experience with trauma or substance abuse recovery and feel called to help others?
The Trager Institute offers state-approved trainings that lead to certifications and a rewarding career in the behavioral health field that will allow you to use your experience to support others navigating similar challenges.
Community Health Worker
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.
Kentucky Family Leadership Academy
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
Adult Peer Support Specialist
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.
Community Support Associate
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.
Family Peer Support Specialist
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 seeking approval by the Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (DBHDID) to provide the above trainings.
Requirements
- Must have experience with trauma or substance abuse
- Must be 18 years or older
- Must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident
- Must live or work in Kentucky
Because all sessions are held virtually, participants are expected to have the following:
- Computer or laptop with a webcam and microphone
- Reliable internet access
Community Health Worker Tier One: $1,000 training fee
Upcoming training sessions
Contact us
Natalie Gober
Program Manager
natalie.vickous@louisville.edu