Your evidence-based organization (and staff) encounter complex challenges daily, so properly preventing and resolving them is critical, not just to the success of your organization, but also the individual clients who are facing real-life challenges.
How well you do your job often determines the trajectory of your client’s lives. Done poorly, you could actually cause harm (or enable) them.
Is your organization structured in a way to maximize the impact of your practitioners? Are your practitioners equipped with the most sound direction on how to resolve complex human challenges?
Institute evidence-based approaches and framework where both the practitioners and their clients can thrive in the short and long-term.
Joyfields Insitute is uniquely equipped to identify and fill in the gaps preventing your organization from excelling at the highest level. We offer solution which help you "adapt" what you already are doing - not start from scratch. We’ll dive into the trenches alongside you and your team while implementing in-person training and coaching guidance to support you where it's needed most.
Our numerous customers and their staff have great things to say about our strong training program. View what some have to say below.
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"The role plays, practice and demonstrations during the training helped to reinforce what was being taught"
"This training truly helped me get a grasp of what evidence-based really means!"
Using examples and practice exercises, this training lays out the template of how leadership at an agency or program can produce durable client outcomes while achieving organizational success, sustainability, and consistently reaching or exceeding expectations they, their stakeholders and funders have. Participants in this course are eligible for Certifcation in Evidence-Based Leadership (CEBL).
This course also is required of leadership at organizations seeking Certification as Evidence-Based Organizations (CEBO). Learn More >>
Formal education for client-facing professionals on the common elements of evidence-based approaches for helping clients regain their abilities to perform critical life functions they “lost”. These common elements are essential in any life domain for helping recipients of services to incrementally improve versus “punishing” or "rehabilitating".
Participants in this course are eligible to become Certified as Evidence-Based Practitioners (CEBP). Learn More >>
>Participants learn evidence-based & strength-centered case management practices. Participants will be able to differentiate traditional deficit-centered practices vs. evidence-based and strength-centered practices we are moving toward. Using relevant examples, participants will learn how they can help their clients achieve desired outcomes through promoting quality and effective interventions which link individuals to appropriate resources.
Effective client transition and supervision programs result in successful citizens who are assets to communities to which they return. This program examines how in a mandated setting, case management is the pivotal activity by which all other supports and services are made viable.
A cognitive-behavioral approach is a foundational model for facilitating change. This program is designed to support the work of behavioral change in populations under various forms of supervision. It offers a comprehensive set of worksheets for use in helping recipients of services acquire and practice skills necessary for lasting behavioral changes.
Thinking Matters Evolution for Decision Making is an evidence-based approach to integrating cognitive behavioral skills into decision making. Principles of effective intervention are employed using adult learning theory, social skills theory, problem solving and cognitive restructuring theory. A comprehensive set of worksheets are used to acquire and practice skills necessary for lasting behavioral changes.
We have developed several training presentations on this but now use the SAMHSA Manualized Presentations. Sometimes it is necessary to expand the detail on a part of this training which we are able to do.
DBT strategies arose from a recognition that typical skills-focused programs concentrate on a change to the exclusion of validation or acceptance, with the result that clients experience invalidation around their suffering as well as the difficulty or lack of readiness to make changes. The particular value of DBT stems from it combining acceptance and change strategies together.
Managers and supervisors can spell excellence or otherwise for your agency. Their use of effective supervisory skills ensures that staff is getting resources and the support it needs to get work done and achieve good if not superior outcomes for clients in its care.
Success at any organization depends to no small extent, on the employee performance review process. Yet well-meaning managers and supervisors avoid it, or at best do not look forward to it. Ultimately the appraisal they "throw together" is one they themselves would not want.. Change that immediately with two simple steps you will look back and be proud you did!
Teaches skills for keeping a team of employees motivated and working well together and as individuals. How do you create an environment where employees enthusiastically want to return to everyday? That's the assignment.
Family Group, Conferencing, and Teaming at its core. Clients with supportive families and other adult caregivers achieve more durable sustainable outcomes. Our family engagement trainings are have been rated very high. They teach participants evidence-based and strength-centered methods for identifying, engaging and involving families of recipients of services in their communities.
This is training on evidence-based and strength-centered approaches for understanding, addressing and engaging youth, adults and families around gender concepts, terms, and inclusion.
Joyfields Institute offers a comprehensive series of trainings on MI designed to help staff learn, apply, coach and train others. The Core and advance skills program is a formal training to teach MI skills. It is designed for the basic and advance level practitioners.
In a world post-covid19, teletherapy has rapidly become an essential service modality. Unfortunately, many evidence-based practices are not designed to be implemented online. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based practice that already has a wealth of research supporting it is an effective telehealth strategy. This interactive session will introduce the topic of motivational interviewing (MI) as an evidence-based practice. Relevant research that supports Motivational Interviewing as an effective telehealth strategy and intervention will be reviewed. Online MI considerations will be introduced and an opportunity to practice some basic MI skills will be provided. Information on how to obtain further in-depth training on telehealth MI will also be provided.
This is a formal training to teach skills for combining the two methods. Clinical trials demonstrate that CBT combined with MI is four times more effective! The challenge is learning to combine the 2. We know how!
This program has been developed to train trainer the skills for training agency staff the skills of Motivational Interviewing (MI). Training inhouse training staff ensures an agency will have internal resources for sustaining and strengthening what has been taught. In additions, the agency will be in a position to train new as well as existing up and coming staff the skills of MI without the typical down time traing to arrange an outside trainer.
Train supervisors and management on skills for coaching staff to become effective practitioners of MI skills. MI is a simple concept to understand. The chellenge is in the practice and application of the skills. Having supervisory personnel learn to coach their staff on effective use of the skill will add significant value to outcomes an agency and clients it serves will derive.
Understand this disorder and its implications both for the recipients receiving service and other stakeholders that are impacted.
Learn and ask questions about what persons with this disorder need from professionals, what helps in recovery, barriers they face, and how professionals can help them address the barriers.
Supportive services are offered to maximize housing stability and prevent returns to homelessness as opposed to addressing predetermined treatment goals prior to permanent housing entry.
This program is designed to teach participants skills for supporting guiding clients who may be dealing with the issues around anxiety disorder brought on by major trauma from various events such as war, imprisonment, assault, sexual abuse or natural disasters.
Trauma-informed organizations, programs, and services are based on an understanding of the vulnerabilities or triggers of trauma survivors. Traditional service delivery approaches often fail to appreciate this and cause more harm.
Trauma-informed services and programs are better positioned to be more supportive and avoid re-traumatizing survivors.
Review and help staff get clear on Sexual Harassment and Misconduct. At the end of the training participants will be in a position to prevent situations in regard to staff communicating and interacting inappropriately among themselves and with clients.
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All-inclusive training adaptable to specific agency needs. This program examines pharmacology, impacts on the human brain, recovery orientation, matrix, group, family, and substance abuse counseling techniques/interventions
We focus on the impacts of various aspects of traumatic stress, how to recognize and leverage those impacts for service excellence
Skills for Helping Individuals Regain (and keep) Employment (HIRE). Basic and advanced skills are taught.
Training offers custom options for various barriered populations, including Returning Citizens. In addition, other modules include, Culture of Poverty, Model of Accountability, Performance Measurement & Evaluation - Modular training, information, and technologies to engage staff, enhance outcomes and customer satisfaction.
An Evidence-Based and Strength Centered Workforce Development Approach
The H.I.R.E program is designed to train workforce teams on evidence-based and strength centered employment focused approaches. It is a comprehensive program to help staff obtain skills for helping their clients become gainfully employed even if they may have severe barriers.
H.I.R.E. directs focus to training clients for skills that are currently demanded by area employers. It also works to expand the range of resources available for meeting the job search and job retention needs of clients. The typical workforce system, by design of the federal government, includes a tiered approach to entering employment. Core services or self-directed job search is through a universal access system open to the public. This self-directed model may work for some, although for others it presents immense challenges.
We work to ensure our programs are sensitive to diverse backgrounds and cultures. In addition, the training will account for the implications of COVID-19.
Learning Goals and Objectives
The H.I.R.E program will train participants to provide supported and structured case managed navigation through the career exploration, job search, job placement, and job retention processes. For applicants or recipients who do not possess key skills to complete self-directed job search that lead to gainful employment a more intensive job, search and placement assistance services are needed. Various funding sources must be identified to assist the job placement, TANF and Justice-Involved included.
If barriers are still present and need to be addressed with education or talent development, then referral to training services through various Workforce and Career Services remedies may be provided. This tiered approach is designed to assist those who need more progressive support in their employment endeavors.
Participants will learn evidence-based workforce development, job creation, and workshop facilitation skills.
Other Relevant Workshops
Model of Accountability, Performance Measurement, and Evaluation - Modular training, information and technologies to engage staff, enhance outcomes and customer satisfaction (Half-Day).
This training focuses on the use of MI skills invocational rehabilitative settings.
This training is extremely useful for both mental health and substance use disorders treatment and especially for co-morbidity. It involves identifying targeted issues using stage-wise treatment and strength-based approaches
In some cases, training needs to go direct and deeper. This is where coaching modules help tremendously for equipping your evidence-based organization.
Our coaching services are designed to help you meet your program goals. We work with you assistively and collaboratively to determine what to focus on and prioritize activities. Coaching is tailored to address specific questions and/or situations and case vignettes that demonstrate various challenges faced or being addressed can be the focus.
Also, we are available when needed and follow-up as deemed necessary to support work you are doing. Staff may also need tactical help that has come up or deduced from a program evaluation and efforts to address findings and the recommended remedies.
Services may also be warranted especially at the early stages of an implementations ranging from simple feedback sessions, case and audio/video taped sessions reviews, additional training online and boosters, or may entail additional evaluation to insure you are meeting program goals.
See available coaching modules below.
We collaborate with you to review programs being utilized for delivering services, summarize findings and provide existing research to support (or not support) your use of that programs. Specifically, we will:
Provide further guidance via phone or email during the contract phase regarding the curriculum contents.
We facilitate an organization's efforts to become an evidence-based organization (EBO). Or experts work with your agency to help you navigate the process of becoming an EBO and going all the way to becoming a certified EBO. The entire process may include onsite visits for training and ongoing capacity building.
This program is the standardized process for becoming evidence-based practitioners. We guide agency staff through ongoing training, coaching and development to confidently and efficiently provide services and supports to clients. We coach them to learnn to apply a set of skills characterized as evidence-based "common elements".
We invite you to train up your evidence-based organization in the areas that matter with the people who care.
If you have clarity on which training modules you need, let's talk. If you're unsure, we'll walk you through an exploration process to determine a customized program that fits your needs and budget.
Here's what else you can expect while working together:
If you're ready to explore this further, we're happy to discuss and build a training plan for your organization. If you're not yet ready, check out our complimentary article on creating an evidence-based organization.
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