Training Offerings
Please contact us if you are interested in any of the following trainings we currently offer.
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The Center offers a diverse portfolio of training and professional development opportunities designed to meet the evolving needs of professionals and communities. Most trainings are developed in-house, drawing on the center’s research, clinical expertise and community partnerships, while others are well-established, evidence-based curricula implemented through grant-funded initiatives. Offerings can be tailored to specific audiences and delivered in a variety of formats, including in-person, virtual and hybrid, to maximize accessibility and relevance. The center's trainings aim to strengthen practice, enhance impact and support community well‑being.
Mental health & crisis support
A 12-module parent training series focused on prevention and support for opioid use in teens
- Module 1: Prevalence of substance use and opioid use disorder
- Module 2: Opioid use risk and protective factors
- Module 3: Trauma, mental health and opioid use
- Module 4: Impact of use
- Module 5: Motivational interviewing and opioid use
- Module 6: Opioid use decision making and responsibility dynamics
- Module 7: Peer pressure and refusal skills
- Module 8: Role of parents and family in opioid use
- Module 9: Healthy relationships and development
- Module 10: Effective communication and conflict resolution
- Module 11: Help-seeking and evidence-based interventions
- Module 12: Relapse prevention
A certification program for collegiate coaches, athletic trainers, and other health and performance staff supporting student athlete well-being
- Learn how to recognize and respond to student athlete stress and mental health issues
- Review how to manage your own stress and prevent secondary trauma and burnout as you support your athletes
A skills-based workshop for staff and faculty to better support college students through mental health challenges
- Review rates and impact of mental health and trauma issues for college students
- Name risk and protective factors that build resilience
- Learn how to engage students in conversations regarding mental health, assess next steps for students facing a mental health challenge and recommend students for appropriate mental health interventions
- Become aware of a variety of mental health interventions and resources
An evidence-based program designed for early youth to late adolescence that teaches skills to avoid or address unhealthy and abusive relationships, promote healthy relationships and cope with the impact of relationships on various areas of well-being
- Build skills and knowledge for navigating romantic, friendship and family relationships
- Learn how to manage conflict and making responsible decisions about relationships
An evidence-informed curriculum reviewing trauma and its many effects on our lives and building coping skills across multiple domains to promote healing and positive outcomes
- Build self-soothing, coping and resiliency skills
- Learn how to identify and name feelings and thoughts, differentiate between the two and map the interaction of senses, thoughts, feelings and behaviors
- Review relationship skills, identify a key supporter and learn empathic listening skills
- Learn about the different types of trauma people experience and the various impacts trauma has on the brain and areas of functioning
A client-centered approach focusing on resolving ambivalence and increasing motivation for change by evoking the client’s own motivation for change
- Review the history, theoretical foundations, and evidence base for motivational interviewing (MI)
- Learn the four key principles of MI
- Identify traps to avoid, interaction techniques and core change strategies for MI
- Learn the unique applications of MI to various practice settings
A three-day training to prepare social workers to handle the common challenges faced by families in which a family member has had suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide
- Learning how to conduct a suicide risk assessment and determine the appropriate level of response
- Specifying family factors affecting both youth and adult suicide risk
- How to consider a family component even when working with only the suicidal individual
- How to help families understand how they can best support their suicidal loved one
A suicide prevention training program teaching individuals to intervene in a suicidal crisis
- Recognize the warning signs and risk factors associated with suicide
- Understand common myths and facts surrounding suicide
- Demonstrate how to ask someone directly about their desire or intent for suicide
- Persuade the person to seek and accept help
- Identify and describe appropriate referral resources available to help someone in a crisis
- Know how to get help and save a life
A workshop exploring the significant impacts of the social determinants of health (SDOH) on child welfare
- Define and articulate the key components of SDOH and explain how they contribute to disparities in child welfare
- Evaluate and discuss how various social determinants, such as socioeconomic status, access to healthcare and education directly affect the well-being and outcomes of children in the child welfare system
- Identify implicit biases and understand how they can influence decision-making and interactions within the child welfare context, both at the micro (individual) and macro (organizational) levels
- Engage in reflective practices and create inclusive environments in child welfare settings, acknowledging their own privilege and considering strategies to address disparities
Trauma & resilience
A skill-based training exploring the historical context of racism, intervention strategies to confront microaggressions, biases and paths for advocacy
- Review and understand American history though an anti-racism lens
- Learn about several forms of systemic racism and how it impacts BIPOC
- Be able to identify where they are in the process of understanding their own racial identity
- Learn about bias
- Learn to recognize microaggressions
- Learn about the impact of microaggressions on BIPOC
- Learn how to effectively respond to microaggression by using micro-interventions
A pilot project to assist parents experiencing adversity to maintain and improve connections to their children in a group educational format
- Learn self-soothing
- Review developmentally appropriate discipline skills
- Identify parenting in adversity skills
- Explore resiliency skills
- Learn collaboration and intentionality skills
A training reviewing the impact of trauma and exploring evidence-based and trauma-informed interventions
- Define trauma and name how trauma impacts the brain, body and behavior and correlates with long term health outcomes
- Learn the neuroscience behind trauma responses and symptoms
- Name several trauma-informed interventions
An evidence-informed experiential learning opportunity to increase awareness and motivate action
- Increase understanding of the root causes of poverty by identifying the impact of policies, systems and structures on communities, families and individuals
- Increase understanding of the intricacies of navigating the child welfare system and other resources while living in poverty
- Connect experience with practice differences on a micro, mezzo and macro level
A training focusing on the understanding STS and learning strategies to prevent and overcome it
- Explore STS signs and symptoms
- Learn the rates and prevalence of STS
- Identify risk and protective factors
- Learn prevention and intervention strategies
An evidence-based curriculum for higher education professionals to gain knowledge and skills to create a trauma-informed environment
- Establish the need to build trauma-informed professionals and organizations in higher education to address stress, indirect trauma, burnout and turnover
- Learn trauma-informed organizational principles, programs and practices for individual and organizational well-being
A training that addresses sources, symptoms and solutions for secondary traumatic and general occupational stress associated with high demand roles
- Review the risk and protective factors for secondary trauma, signs or symptoms that stress has become toxic and may lead to burnout
- Learn concrete strategies to prevent, reduce or manage stress and promote personal and professional resiliency
- Identify sources of stress and secondary traumatic stress for essential workers
A series of evidence-based psychoeducational workshops for college students
- Learn methods to cope with all the questions you face as a college student
- Learn what distressed mental health looks like and build a wellness toolbox
- Understand the role of stress and trauma and take steps to build resilience
- Set and communicate expectations with clarity
A program developed to assist in the transition back to in-person activities and our new "normal" after the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Review new challenges in transition period
- Strengthen coping skills for transition
- Identify strategies to support students and other faculty/staff
- Learn how to manage ongoing mental health issues
An approach to leadership that addresses leadership styles, decision making, workforce characteristics, conflict resolution, strategies to support crisis and stress management and the parallel process of leadership for systems of care
- Learn leadership styles and how to utilize trauma-informed care principles to promote positive organizational culture and climate
- Identify support styles and how support style and coping strategies impact you, your staff and the work culture
- Develop strategies to overcome barriers to supportive relationships and promote healthy coping (i.e., provide solace and help solve problems)
Professional development
A training developed for DCBS Field Training Specialists
- Learn the history of the FTS program
- Review general coaching information
- Identify how individual differences can affect a coaching relationship
- Explain how the FTS Program goes beyond coaching to reinforce education and training
- Introduce the behavioral anchors
A unique approach to supervision focusing on using supervision and other techniques as an opportunity to improve the knowledge, skills and staff well-being
- Identify support styles and how support style and coping strategies impact you, your staff and the work culture
- Develop strategies to overcome barriers to supportive relationships and promote healthy coping (i.e. provide solace and help solve problems)
- Apply healthy coping strategies to your role in creating a supportive organization
A training for mental health clinicians supporting telehealth best practices
- Define telehealth and tele-social work
- Identify relevant state and federal regulations
- Recognize ethical considerations
- Describe benefits and limitations
- Obtain informed consent for telehealth
- Use technology securely
- Engage clients effectively online
An approach to leadership that addresses leadership styles, decision making, workforce characteristics, conflict resolution, strategies to support crisis and stress management and the parallel process of leadership for systems of care
- Learn leadership styles and how to utilize trauma-informed care principles to promote positive organizational culture and climate
- Identify support styles and how support style and coping strategies impact you, your staff and the work culture
- Develop strategies to overcome barriers to supportive relationships and promote healthy coping (i.e., provide solace and help solve problems)
Population-specific programs
Evidence-informed mental health program for student athletes
- Learn the impact of stressors and focus on methods to cope with uncertainty
- Learn what distressed mental health looks like, discuss the dimensions of mental health and create a wellness toolbox
- Complete a self-care assessment tool, review risk and protective factors and practice evidence-based mindfulness activities
- Learn about setting expectations and practice effective communication skills
- Explore cultural communication considerations and principles for smart relationships
A series of evidence-based psychoeducational workshops for parents of college athletes
- Learn how to recognize and respond to your child’s stress and mental health issues
- Review how to manage your own stress and prevent secondary trauma and burnout as you support your child
Interested in training?
If you are interested in any of the trainings we currently offer, please contact us to learn more.