StarkMHAR Trainings
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Working in partnership with clients, families, healthcare, and behavioral health providers, local county systems such as education, criminal justice, law enforcement, health and human services, elected officials, businesses, faith-based organizations, and community members, StarkMHAR strives to offer a full curriculum of educational events to inspire innovation and to ensure accountability and effectiveness in our local system of client care.
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April 2024
Verbal Intervention
April 12 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEUs Not Applicable
Verbal Intervention (VI) Training prepares your staff to identify, respond to, and prevent low-risk crisis behavior with non-restrictive intervention techniques. VI teaches trainees non-restrictive verbal interventions, such as limit-setting, that effectively de-escalate challenging behavior. Instills the confidence and skills to verbally de-escalate disruptive behaviors.
Understanding Grief & Loss
April 17 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
This program will focus on defining mourning, grief, bereavement and complicated grief as well as discussing the difference between complicated and normal grief. It will also look at the factors that make our grief unique from one another. Because grief is something that 100% of the population experiences, we will discuss the diagnostic criteria and the ethical issues surrounding it’s inclusion in the DSM5.
Trauma Mindfulness
April 17 | 1:15 pm – 4:30 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
Trauma is a complex condition and according to Peter Levine, PH.D., “The most avoided, ignored, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” This workshop will help the professional gain a better understanding of trauma, obvious and less obvious ways in which it can occur, and how it impacts the grieving process. The importance of using sensory interventions in the therapeutic process will be explained and examples will be shown. Techniques will be learned through interactive participation.
Trauma Informed Care for Substance Use Disorders
April 23 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
This workshop will address the issue of trauma as it affects individual clients, clinicians, and systems of care. A history of trauma is extremely common in individuals presenting for mental health and/or substance use disorders treatment. Attention to trauma issues occurs on a continuum ranging from trauma-informed to trauma-sensitive to trauma-integrated. A trauma-informed approach seeks to raise awareness about trauma among all behavioral and physical health caregivers. A trauma-sensitive approach promotes screening and treatment methods that take past trauma into account without re-traumatizing the client and fully integrates trauma issues into all aspects of care delivery especially through the use of specific models used to treat trauma.
QPR – Question.Persuade.Refer.
April 24 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm @ Stark County Educational Service Center | CEUs Not Applicable
QPR (Question. Persuade. Refer.) is an evidence-based training that teaches three simple steps anyone can learn to help prevent suicide. Just like CPR, QPR is an emergency response to someone in crisis and can save lives. QPR is the most widely taught Gatekeeper training in the world.
CIT Fire/EMS
April 29 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm @ Jackson Township Safety Center | CEUs Not Applicable
Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery supports the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training of Fire and EMS professionals in our community. Crucial to reducing violence and ensuring successful intervention of mental health and substance use situations, Fire and EMS personnel are trained in proven and effective communication and de-escalation techniques.
May 2024
CIT Dispatcher Training
May 1 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm @ StarkMHAR | Not CEU Applicable
Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery supports the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training of law enforcement professionals in our community. Crucial to reducing violence and ensuring successful intervention of mental health and substance use situations, dispatchers are trained in proven and effective communication techniques.
Motivational Interviewing I & II
May 7 and 8 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change. It is a way of working with persons to assist them in accessing their intrinsic motivation to change behaviors that contradict their essential values and interfere with the achievement of their life goals…
QPR – Question.Persuade.Refer.
May 9 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm @ The 708 | CEUs Not Applicable
QPR (Question. Persuade. Refer.) is an evidence-based training that teaches three simple steps anyone can learn to help prevent suicide. Just like CPR, QPR is an emergency response to someone in crisis and can save lives. QPR is the most widely taught Gatekeeper training in the world.
Equity & Inclusion: Cultural Competence & Humility in Health & Human Services – Part 2
May 14 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
The Cultural Competency Training (CCT) Advanced module will increase the awareness, knowledge and skills required to function effectively with cultural differences that may be present in the area of medical services, service organizations and agencies, medical interpretation and community partnership. The CCT Advanced curriculum includes, but is not limited to: building a culturally competent system of care and community partnership.
Ins and Outs of Medical Cannabis in Ohio
May 17 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ Virtual | CEU Applicable
The medical use of cannabis was legalized in Ohio in 2016. This interactive webinar will provide an overview of the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program, with an important focus on laws related to the use of medical cannabis. This presentation will also focus on the potential harms and benefits of medical cannabis use and the impact of medical cannabis use on mental health and substance use outcomes.
Youth Peer Support
May 29 – June 2 | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm @ Virtual | Not CEU Applicable
The OhioMHAS Youth Peer Support Training is a 40-hour training curriculum that is the only approved training for Certified Youth Peer Supporters in the state of Ohio. This training provides participants with an understanding of youth peer support and equips them with tools and supports that can be used when working with peers in a provider setting.
June 2024
Family Peer Support
June 3 – 7 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEUs Not Applicable
This training is for parents with lived experience raising a child with behavioral/mental health challenges who are interested in learning how to support other families in navigating youth-serving systems.
Recovery Management
June 11 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
Recovery Management (RM) is a philosophical framework for organizing addiction treatment services to provide pre-recovery identification and engagement, recovery initiation and stabilization, long-term recovery maintenance, and quality of life enhancement for individuals and families affected by severe substance use disorders. Recovery Oriented Systems of Care, such as the RM model developed by William White, have begun to shape the future of addictions treatment programming. Acute Care (AC) models of treatment are not the best frameworks treating severe and persistent opiate and other substance abuse problems. This workshop will explore the core principles of the Recovery Management model and will look to advance the discussion about how treatment services can be made more relevant and effective for individuals with severe and persistent opiate and other substance abuse treatment needs.
QPR – Question.Persuade.Refer.
June 17 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEUs Not Applicable
QPR (Question. Persuade. Refer.) is an evidence-based training that teaches three simple steps anyone can learn to help prevent suicide. Just like CPR, QPR is an emergency response to someone in crisis and can save lives. QPR is the most widely taught Gatekeeper training in the world.
The Costs & Gifts of Caring: Moving from Compassion Fatigue to Compassion Resilience
June 28 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm @ Stark State College | CEU Applicable
This training will explore how to promote healing and hope in those we serve, our staff, each other, and ourselves. Develop skills for coaching to help us walk with and empower those we support instead of rescuing them. Explore the origins of the differences between, and ways to, address vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, and burnout in our staff and ourselves. As well as its impact on the agency and what can be done about it. We will look at what research tells us, what our work experiences have shown us and develop a plan to assist us, our staff and those we serve in negotiating this work that is as challenging as it is needed.