To join call: Phone #: +1 513-395-0022 Conf. ID#: 121 957 546#
Team A members are expected to be present at the February and August meetings while Team B members are expected to be present at the May and November meetings. Committee members are welcome and encourage to attend all Steering Committee meetings.
PartnerSolutions – Steering Committee Teams
| Team A (February and August) | Team B (May and November) |
| Ashland | Ashtabula |
| Ashtabula | Belmont/Harrison/Monroe |
| Columbiana | Delaware/Morrow |
| Hancock | Jefferson |
| Mahoning | Trumbull |
| Portage | Union |
| Stark | Wayne/Holmes |
**You will only need to register once to attend both days.
Must attend both days – MI I on Wednesday, March 8 and MI II on Wednesday, March 22
Who should attend: Open.
About the training: 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.
Foundations of Motivational Interviewing: Part 1 introduces participants to the philosophical roots and essential constructs of the model. Participants will be introduced to the Engaging process and learn skill-building exercises designed to assist them in utilizing person-centered approaches and engaging people in change discussions. They will practice strategies to respond to resistance in work settings for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
Foundations of Motivational Interviewing: Part 2 reviews the basic concepts learned in Foundations of Motivational Interviewing: Part 1 and discusses with participants their experiences integrating the model into their work. They will be introduced to the Focusing, Evoking, and Planning processes. Participants will learn specific techniques to recognize, evoke and strengthen change talk, as well as consolidate a person’s commitment to change. Participants will have an opportunity to practice these techniques in role/real-play and other group exercises.
Cost – This is a free training.
Education credits – 12.0 total
OCSWMFTB – counselors, social workers.
Chemical Dependency Professional Board – CDCA, LCDC II, LCDC III, LICDC
COVID-19 Protocols: Please visit the Training Center to view the current protocols in place as StarkMHAR adapts safety measures as needed to be in alignment with the CDC and Governor DeWine’s recommendations.
Who should attend: Priority will be given to direct behavioral health provider staff such as peer supports, case managers, counselors/therapists, and nursing and medical staff. However, in-direct staff such as reception, fiscal, front office, support staff, maintenance, housing, and any other non-clinically licensed individuals may also attend.
Description: A global pandemic, the fight for social justice, and significant system transformation has impacted the children, youth, and families in ways that are not yet clear. In addition, these drivers have had an unprecedented impact on workforce that requires a new vision for moving forward. Reimaging Trauma will explore the strategies to manage the current challenges and how trauma impacts individuals and the systems that serve children, youth, and families. This training will assist you in understanding how your own experiences impact your interaction with others in the work environment. Being aware of how you interact (what you say and how you communicate it) with people seeking services at your organization is important to how the person feels about the agency, their services, and even whether they return. Reimaging trauma is about you, your work, your health, and your life.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the impact of trauma on the workforce and child serving systems.
- Identify common elements, core components, and characteristics of trauma informed care as strategies for caring for the workforce.
- Identify and define concepts that are foundational to building trauma informed systems including, but not limited to the adverse childhood experience, vicarious trauma and burnout, and the role of systems in supporting the workforce.
- Identify potential strategies to include in a plan of self-care for individuals, supervisors, and organizations.
Cost: Free
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Education Credits: 3 CEUs
General Continuing Education: Counselors and Social Workers
P2 – Prevention Education & Service Delivery: OCPC, OCPS, OCPSA
C7 – Prevention Strategies: CDCA, LCDC II, LCDC III, LICDC
Please register by: March 8, 2023
Who should attend: Priority will be given to direct behavioral health provider staff such as peer supports, case managers, counselors/therapists, and nursing and medical staff. However, in-direct staff such as reception, fiscal, front office, support staff, maintenance, housing, and any other non-clinically licensed individuals may also attend.
Description: A global pandemic, the fight for social justice, and significant system transformation has impacted the children, youth, and families in ways that are not yet clear. In addition, these drivers have had an unprecedented impact on workforce that requires a new vision for moving forward. Reimaging Trauma will explore the strategies to manage the current challenges and how trauma impacts individuals and the systems that serve children, youth, and families. This training will assist you in understanding how your own experiences impact your interaction with others in the work environment. Being aware of how you interact (what you say and how you communicate it) with people seeking services at your organization is important to how the person feels about the agency, their services, and even whether they return. Reimaging trauma is about you, your work, your health, and your life.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the impact of trauma on the workforce and child serving systems.
- Identify common elements, core components, and characteristics of trauma informed care as strategies for caring for the workforce.
- Identify and define concepts that are foundational to building trauma informed systems including, but not limited to the adverse childhood experience, vicarious trauma and burnout, and the role of systems in supporting the workforce.
- Identify potential strategies to include in a plan of self-care for individuals, supervisors, and organizations.
Cost: Free
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Continuing Education Units: 3.0
General Continuing Education: Counselors and Social Workers
P2 – Prevention Education & Service Delivery: OCPC, OCPS, OCPSA
C7 – Prevention Strategies: CDCA, LCDC II, LCDC III, LICDC
Please register by: March 8, 2023
Date: March 13 – 17, 2023
Who should attend: Law Enforcement, Fire Department, EMTs, First Responders working in Stark County.
About this event:
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, officers are trained in proven and effective communication techniques.
The CIT model was first developed and implemented in 1988 by the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department. The Team was developed to address the special challenges to law enforcement posed by persons with mental illness and to better serve the community.
Local training is led by StarkMHAR and Law Enforcement Partners and involves area mental health/drug and alcohol service providers, NAMI of Stark County, and consumers of mental health/drug and alcohol services and their families. This specialized training has the following goals:
- To better prepare police officers to handle crises involving people with mental illness and substance use disorders
- To increase mental health/substance use consumer safety
- To increase law enforcement officer safety
- To increase the feeling of safety in the general community
- To make the mental health/drug and alcohol system more understandable, accessible and responsive to law enforcement to the greatest extent possible with community resources
- To divert persons with mental illness/substance use disorders to the mental health/substance use system, when appropriate, and not to incarceration
Since 2004, Stark County’s CIT Training program has certified hundreds of officers and first responders. Comprehensive 40-hour courses have been provided twice each calendar year. Law enforcement officers are selected by their Chiefs, Sheriff or their designers to attend this training. Participants should be volunteers and ideally should have good communication and interpersonal skills. The goal for all law enforcement agencies is to have, at a minimum, 25% of their first responders trained.
Location
Jackson Township Safety Center
Cost
This is a free training
Who should attend:
Open to the general public – anyone interested in learning how to help prevent suicide.
Description:
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.
What individuals will learn:
- The prevalence of suicide in Stark County
- How to ask directly if someone is thinking about suicide
- The common cause of suicidal behavior
- The warning signs of suicide
- How to get help for someone in crisis
Why participate?
With the number of individuals that die by suicide each day, there is a high probability that you will come in contact with someone struggling with suicidal thoughts.
These free trainings are approximately 90 minutes and are sponsored by the Stark County Suicide Prevention Coalition.
Location
StarkMHAR – Training Room
121 Cleveland Ave SW
Canton, OH 44702
Cost
Free
Continuing Education Units
Not applicable
Registration
Limited space, please register by March 10, 2023
Conference line number: 513-395-0022
Conference ID#: 946 496 169#
Date: March 13 – 17, 2023
Who should attend: Law Enforcement, Fire Department, EMTs, First Responders working in Stark County.
About this event:
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, officers are trained in proven and effective communication techniques.
The CIT model was first developed and implemented in 1988 by the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department. The Team was developed to address the special challenges to law enforcement posed by persons with mental illness and to better serve the community.
Local training is led by StarkMHAR and Law Enforcement Partners and involves area mental health/drug and alcohol service providers, NAMI of Stark County, and consumers of mental health/drug and alcohol services and their families. This specialized training has the following goals:
- To better prepare police officers to handle crises involving people with mental illness and substance use disorders
- To increase mental health/substance use consumer safety
- To increase law enforcement officer safety
- To increase the feeling of safety in the general community
- To make the mental health/drug and alcohol system more understandable, accessible and responsive to law enforcement to the greatest extent possible with community resources
- To divert persons with mental illness/substance use disorders to the mental health/substance use system, when appropriate, and not to incarceration
Since 2004, Stark County’s CIT Training program has certified hundreds of officers and first responders. Comprehensive 40-hour courses have been provided twice each calendar year. Law enforcement officers are selected by their Chiefs, Sheriff or their designers to attend this training. Participants should be volunteers and ideally should have good communication and interpersonal skills. The goal for all law enforcement agencies is to have, at a minimum, 25% of their first responders trained.
Location
Jackson Township Safety Center
Cost
This is a free training
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