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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FEBRUARY 2025
Grounding in an Ungrounded World
“In some ways counselors are like our society’s medicine men and medicine women. They work in uncharted territories to bring comfort and healing to emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical suffering”. (Rudick, 2012, p.555).
February 7 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ VIRTUAL | CEUs Pending
The difficulties mental health workers face daily require a particular amount of self-care. This workshop will focus on self regulation when working in challenging circumstances. Attendees will participate in exercises for self-care and connection and create understanding of our unique individual roles and commitments to the work we do. We need to care for ourselves in specific ways if we want to care for others. To enhance this process our workshop will be experiential and interactive.
Equity & Inclusion: Cultural Competence & Humility in Health & Human Services – Part 1
February 11 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
The Cultural Competency Training (CCT) will cover topics that are fundamental to cultural competency and cultural humility, which will assist with the understanding of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) and develop skills in understanding diverse communities that can be applied to behavioral health service delivery. The CCT curriculum includes but is not limited to: Compelling Reasons for Cultural Competence, The Dynamics of Diversity, The Impact of Personal Culture on Communication, The Cultural Bumps, and Communicating Effectively through an Interpreter.
Social Media, Behavioral Healthcare, and You: Navigating Online Forums and Ever-Evolving Legal Implications
February 19 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ VIRTUAL| CEU Applicable
The prevalence of social media in our lives is not slowing down or disappearing anytime soon, and it can present huge impacts on our provider roles and the clients we serve in the behavioral health world. This presentation will focus on the myriad ways social media continues to present both benefits and challenges in the industry, with important legal considerations to focus on.
QPR – Question.Persuade.Refer.
February 25 | 2:30 pm – 4:00 9m @ Alliance Commons | 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.
Family Centered Engagement in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
February 25 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
Family centered engagement is a foundational principle in the success of families that experience substance use disorder and other mental and behavioral health issues. This training will highlight what family centered engagement is and place an emphasis on its importance in the behavioral health field. Additionally, the training will explore barriers and benefits in family centered engagement. Evidence shows that trauma informed family engagement strategies are an effective tool in increasing the engagement of families struggling with substance use disorder and through examining the six principles of trauma informed care, attendees of the training will be able to gain strategies to engage families affected by substance use disorders and develop a trauma informed engagement plan to utilize in their family engagement practices.
MARCH 2025
Ethics & Boundaries in Mental Health Treatment
March 4 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ Virtual | CEU Applicable
Curriculum includes an overview of the ethical and legal issues in managing boundaries in clinical work. It includes a lecture on common boundary challenges and the complexities involved. Participants will discuss ethical scenarios to enhance growth and development of ethical decision making around professional boundaries with the goal of helping clinicians maintain ethical/legal standards.
Understanding Grief, Loss, and Trauma
March 7 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
Grief is something that 100% of the population experiences. This program will focus on the defining mourning, grief, bereavement and complicated grief as well as discuss the difference between complicated and normal grief. It will also look at the factors that make our grief unique from one another. Special focus will be on the clinical issues surrounding suicide loss, and how to support families who have experienced that. Participants will leave with a greater knowledge of traumatic loss and interventions to support the bereaved in their community.
HIPAA Compliance and the Behavioral Health System: An Update on the Federal Confidentiality Laws (HIPAA, 42 CFR, and FERPA)
March 11 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ VIRTUAL | CEU Applicable
Federal confidentiality laws, while long established, continually require revisiting for modern application and understanding. This training will provide an overview and updates on HIPAA, 42 CFR, student behavioral health records under FERPA, and an explanation of how compliance with each of these confidentiality laws affects our ongoing provider coordination of care.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Introduction and Practice Skills
March 12 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEU Applicable
This course is designed to provide each participant with an understanding of the science and theory behind the practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Participants will review material, engage in discussions and participate in activities centered on developing a working knowledge of this practice. Participants will learn how ACT can benefit the clients they serve as well as gain an understanding of how to explain the approach and use basic concepts in the treatment of mood disorders, substance use, PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Support Staff Documentation
March 13 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am @ Virtual | CEUs Pending
CEOs, COOs, Clinical Supervisors, QMHS, Case Manager Specialists, and Peer Supporters – Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your support team’s understanding of behavioral health documentation requirements. This dynamic one-hour session will focus on CPST, TBS, PSR, Case Management and Peer Support services, providing practical guidance on meeting Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) standards, demonstrating medical necessity, and preparing for audits with confidence. Learn actionable best practices to improve compliance, streamline workflows, and ensure your documentation highlights the critical interventions and supports your clients receive. Reserve your spot today and equip your team with the tools they need for success!
QPR – Question.Persuade.Refer.
March 13 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm @ Massillon City Health Department | 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.
Verbal Intervention
March 17 | 8:00 am – 5:30 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEUs Not Applicable
Verbal Intervention (VI) Training provides skills to build an effective culture of safety within an organization. It is designed to help professionals in any setting provide the best possible Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security for individuals presenting a range of crisis behaviors.
Implicit Bias – The Invisible Influencer
March 25 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEUs Pending
This training aims to educate participants about implicit bias, explaining what it is and how it can unconsciously affect thoughts, decisions, and behaviors. When biases aren’t addressed they can lead to discrimination, poor-decision making, decreased engagement and trust, and negative impacts on mental health. Participants will learn to recognize their own biases through simple self-assessments and group discussions. The training will also provide practical tips and strategies for reducing bias, fostering inclusive practices, and creating respectful environments. By the end of the session, participants will have the tools to recognize and tackle implicit bias in their personal and professional interactions.
APRIL 2025
Embodying Healing & Community Care: Deepening Our Understanding of Trauma
April 8 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm @ Stark County Educational Service Center | CEUs Pending
This training explores the link between oppression (i.e., poverty, racism) and trauma highlighting systemic challenges that affect mental health and functioning. Participants will learn to recognize trauma’s physiological and psychological signs and gain evidence-based tools for fostering resilience. Emphasis will be placed on culturally specific holistic approaches to prevention and treatment of mental health challenges.
The Costs & Gifts of Caring: Moving from Compassion Fatigue to Compassion Resilience
April 10 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm @ First Christian Church | 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.
QPR – Question.Persuade.Refer.
April 12 | 9:00 am – 10:30 am @ The Hope & Healing 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.
Adult Peer Recovery Supporter Training
April 28 – May 9 (Monday – Friday) | 9:00 am – 1:30 pm @ VIRTUAL | CEUs Not Applicable
The Adult Peer Recovery Support training is for individuals who are personally in recovery from a mental health and/or substance use issue and are interested in becoming a Certified Adult Peer Supporter. Peer Services are a process of giving and receiving support and education from individuals with shared life experiences. Peer Services are provided by individuals in recovery from mental illness and/or addiction who use their lived experience as a tool to assist others by sharing their personal journeys and knowledge. Individuals engaged in peer services play a vital role in laying the foundation for sustained recovery. They encourage, inspire and empower others to set recovery goals and achieve them.
MAY 2025
QPR – Question.Persuade.Refer.
May 14 | 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.
Motivational Interviewing I & II
May 13 & 14 | 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. Motivational Interviewing is both a philosophy and a set of strategic techniques. It is an evidence-based treatment with a broad range of applications. The Center for Evidence-Based Practices makes an attempt to incorporate exercises and examples specific to the unique practice settings of participants, with an emphasis on individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
JUNE 2025
Family Peer Support
June 9 – 13 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm @ StarkMHAR
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. The FREDLA Parent Peer Support Provider training is an approved training curriculum for certification to become an Ohio Certified Family Peer Supporter. Family peer support (FPS) is a unique workforce required to use their lived experience in a professional manner to support other families with children and youth with mental health challenges. This is a 5-day training and is nationally recognized in the competency areas identified by the National Family Peer Specialist certification exam. Because this curriculum is a practice model, there are many opportunities to practice the skills you will learn throughout the training. This training fulfills the training requirements of the certification.
Advanced Equity & Inclusion: Cultural Competence & Humility in Health & Human Services
You must have attended the Basic Equity & Inclusion Part 1 training to attend the advanced session.
June 10 | 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.
Verbal Intervention
June 18 | 8:00 am – 5:30 pm @ StarkMHAR | CEUs Not Applicable
Verbal Intervention (VI) Training provides skills to build an effective culture of safety within an organization. It is designed to help professionals in any setting provide the best possible Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security for individuals presenting a range of crisis behaviors.
SFY2025 COMPLETED TRAININGS
July | November |
7/10 – Community Client Rights | 11/5 – Equity & Inclusion Part 1 |
7/15 – QPR | 11/13 – 2024 Conference on Opiates & Addiction |
August | 11/13 – QPR |
8/14 – School-Based Kickoff | 11/18 – 40-hour CIT |
8/19 – CIT Fire/EMS | 11/18 – Family Peer Support |
8/19 – QPR | December |
September | 12/2 – QPR |
9/17 – QPR | 12/5 – Group Facilitation Skills |
9/23 – Adult Peer Support | 12/6 – Young Adult Peer Support |
9/23 – 40-hour CIT | 12/11 – Verbal Intervention |
October | 12/16 – CIT Dispatcher |
10/10 – Verbal Intervention | January |
10/11 – QPR | |
10/11 – Youth Peer Support | |
10/15 – Motivational Interviewing I | |
10/16 – Motivational Interviewing II | |
10/22 – Advanced CIT | |
10/29 – Building a Healing-Centered, Trauma-Responsive Organization | |
10/30 – Ethics in Practice |