Training Institute
Evidence-based trainings designed to enhance skills and knowledge for professional development within a cooperative learning environment.
What we do
We deliver engaging, interactive trainings and workshops discussing an array of mental health topics for people of any profession and level of familiarity.
National Peer Specialist Certification Training
A 40 hour classroom training program approved by Mental Health America as a National Certification Program for Peer Specialists. Learn evidence-based peer specialist techniques and tools developed in partnership with peers, clinicians, and individuals with lived-experience.
Schedule
Participants will meet twice a week for six weeks.
Important update
Enrollment will be sorted into only one cohort moving forward. The only remaining spots will meet Thursdays and Saturdays for the duration of the 6-week course
“The content in this training was actionable, rooted in research, and clear. I felt engaged the entire time.”
-Training Institute Alum
Topics
Self-care and community care
Focus: Self-care strategies for preventing and dealing with
compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma
Learn: Specific aspects of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout, as well as ways to assess and address them
Practice: Concrete steps to incorporate self-care into one’s daily routine to better sustain one’s experience, community, and work
Supportive Crisis Response
Focus: Crisis, distress, and one’s response to them, while minimizing the need to involve law enforcement
Learn: Compassionate, humane, and effective methods of addressing anger, fear, grief, etc.
Practice: Effective responses to the crises of community members, staff, or visitors to one’s organization
Supporting People with Cluttering (Hoarding) Challenges
Focus: The definitions and features of Hoarding Disorder
Learn: The impacts of stigma
Practice: Effective strategies to support individuals experiencing Hoarding/Cluttering challenges
Workplace Allyship
Focus: Allyship as it relates to a supportive work environment; privilege, power, and intersectionality
Learn: Specific traits of supportive allyship for one’s community
Practice: The concrete steps to support team members with diverse identities, and develop strategies around addressing workplace diversity concerns if/when needed
Managing Boundaries
Focus: The distinction between people who are vulnerable to boundary setting and those who benefit from maintaining boundaries; how to best communicate boundary setting for all parties involved
Learn: The different types of boundaries and how to identify them
Practice: techniques for setting appropriate boundaries within community relationships and settings
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Non-Clinicians
Focus: How to channel and convey one’s belief in recovery, empowerment, and personal choice
Learn: Classic Motivational Interviewing techniques
Practice: Strategies that promote person-driven changes and positive outcomes for all parties involved
Language Matters
Focus: How to create an environment that promotes recovery and wellness by understanding how language is used
Learn: How to take an integrative, person0centered approach to language
Practice: The necessary tools one needs to integrate the power of language in a valuable manner
Healing-Centered Engagement
Focus: Explore the connection between trauma, mental health, and recovery
Learn: What trauma is and why its effects have such an impact
Practice: Healing-centered engagement through group discussions of multiple trauma-informed scenarios
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP ®)
Focus: How to decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors, increase personal empowerment, improve quality of life, and achieve one’s personal life goals
Learn: How to create tools and techniques individuals can or already use as a crisis plan
Practice: Recognizing the wisdom that already exists in one’s experience
WRAP® Co-Facilitator Certification Training
For anyone who has completed a Seminar 1 Wrap workshop and has incorporated WRAP into their personal lives
Focus: A 5-day intensive certification course co-facilitated by Certified Advanced Level WRAP® facilitators
Learn: How to use the WRAP® facilitator manual to facilitate WRAP®
Mental Health/Illnes 101
Focus: Mental health recovery, with an emphasis on the possibility for individuals experiencing mental health challenges to define and experience their own recovery journey
Learn: Prevalent mental health condition features and risk factors, as well as the impacts of mental health stigma
Practice: Supporting individuals in defining/experiencing their own recovery journey
Additional Training Details
Trainings Schedule
Each training topic is taught in a 90-minute session. Topics can be combined for a 3-hour, half-day or a 6-hour, full-day format.
Trainings Pricing
COVID-19 Update
Each training topic is taught in a 90-minute session. Topics can be combined for a 3-hour, half-day or a 6-hour, full-day format.
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Training Institute Trainers
CW Johnson
Terri Byrne
Sabrina Mahoney