Mental Health First Aid® teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. This training gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to appropriate … Continue reading Mental Health First Aid® →

Dr. Greg Vachon MD, MPH, Deena Pourshaban, MPH, and Leslie Brooks of Health Management Associates will co-facilitate a 60-minute webinar that will provide an overview of the fundamentals of empanelment, describe the methodology of assigning patients to provider panels, outline necessary staff roles to sustain empanelment processes and how to self-assess your own empanelment environment. … Continue reading Empanelment Training Series: Fundamentals of Empanelment →

This 90-minute interactive workshop equips mental health professionals, first responders, and community/peer workers with mind-body interventions to support individuals and families displaced by wildfires. Participants will learn how to integrate the Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (EMDR-ASSYST) procedures, Community Resiliency Model (CRM) skills, and somatic resiliency strategies to help stabilize the nervous system, reduce overwhelm, and … Continue reading Somatic Approaches to Crisis Recovery: Integrating Embodied Stabilization Strategies for Displaced Wildfire Survivors →

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, person-centered communication style. MI skills were derived from clinical practitioners who demonstrated the importance of genuineness, rapport building, accurate empathy, understanding and acceptance of differing viewpoints with the purpose of identifying priorities and setting goals in pursuit of behavioral change. In accordance with the core values of counseling, MI … Continue reading Motivational Interviewing →