This is the Masterclass for client facing practitioners. It is the standardized process for becoming a professional able to confidently and efficiently provide services and supports to clients through the application of a set of skills characterized as evidence-based "common elements". It teaches practitioners the essential skills they must possess, and use during client contact moments. In a world of countless “evidence-based” approaches, the aim of this course is to teach practitioners the critical collaborative and assistive skills they must possess for being evidence-based and strength-centered. These "common elements" in EBP demonstrate a shift from Diagnostic Driven, Clinically Driven, and Problem Driven Approaches to “Partnering” as an advanced skill. “Partnering” is a term that operationalizes a deeper knowledge and skillful application of sophisticated facilitation skills by the practitioner. In effect this advances the skills of the practitioner beyond expert knowledge of disorders and their remedies to a level of facilitation that impressively enables the person being served to benefit from the contact moment, in any method, program or practice. This is the core course for individual seeking certification as evidence-based practitioners.

This is the Masterclass for learning how organizations become evidence-based. The process lays a foundation for helping organization achieve enduring client outcomes and consistently reaching and exceeding the expectations of stakeholders and funding providers.  Agencies are encouraged to participate as teams to help accelerate the adoption and transition toward becoming an EBO.

A participant in this course is eligible to become Certified as an Evidence-Based Leader (CEBL).

This course also is required of leadership at organizations seeking Certification as Evidence-Based Organizations (CEBO).

>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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

>This is a present-focused, coping skills approach developed as an integrated treatment for PTSD/substance abuse which does not require the client to dwell on the past, although it can be combined with trauma-processing methods.

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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

Trauma-informed organizations, programs, and services are based on an understanding of the vulnerabilities or triggers of trauma survivors that traditional service delivery approaches may exacerbate, so that services and programs can be more supportive and avoid re-traumatizing survivors.

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 Employment (HIRE). Basic and advanced skills training is taught.

The course 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.

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