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Are you looking to advance your career? Provide skill enhancement for your team? Our comprehensive training courses offer a wide range of topics designed to enhance your skills and knowledge. Whether you are seeking professional development, career advancement, or personal growth, we have the right program for you.

Our courses are taught by experienced instructors who are passionate about creating supportive, engaging, interactive learning environments that foster your growth and development.

Professional Development Training Courses

Trauma First Aid for Peers & Supervisors Interactive Training (VIRTUAL - Zoom)

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Define your role as a peer in the trauma story. Learn how to encourage healthy boundaries. Know when and how to make a referral.

Trauma First Aid for Peers is designed to educate peers on trauma-responsive care.

  • Explore universal precautions, the prevalence of trauma in substance use disorder, recognizing trauma responses, preventing re-traumatization and practice engagement strategies for a referral.

  • Practice setting good boundaries and using trauma-responsive language with practice scenarios.

  • Leave with self-care techniques to prevent compassion fatigue.

    Peer Supervisors will become familiar with how peers can support trauma-responsive care through effective supervision, helping the peer stay safe while practicing critical self-care.

Embracing Families in SUD Recovery

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Reluctant to include families in your substance use disorder work with clients? Fear they may cause more harm than good?

Explore these concerns, including issues about confidentiality/boundaries, family dysfunction, and client resistance. Learn how to effectively integrate families into your care and treatment of clients with SUDs.

 In this course, you will…

  • Explore the current peer-reviewed research that supports family engagement.

  • Understand what family dynamics are in play when a family member has a SUD issue.

  • Self-reflect on your own concerns and biases that may be a barrier to family engagement.

  • Learn two family engagement strategies from the proven CRAFT model.

  • Develop your own engagement strategy that is open, warm, and welcoming.

Teaching methods used

This workshop includes dyadic components but is focused primarily on practice and self-reflection. Role plays, small group brainstorming, family sculps, and sociometric floor exercises will be utilized.

 Who should attend?

  • CASAC’s/CPP/CPS and other health care professionals.

  • Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Case Managers, Supervisors

  • Anyone interested in working with families

 Fee

  • $150.00/person

 Continuing Education

  • Approved for 6 hours of CASAC, CPP, CPS, Renewal Hrs.

Group Discounts

Refund Policy

All registration is final. There are no refunds. If we are notified within 24 hours of the class, we can roll your enrollment fee to an alternative training or training date.

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Motivational Interviewing: Spirit, Skills & Practice

Please contact us for upcoming trainings@ lisa@apurpose4life.com.

June 19, 2024 @ 9 am - 3:30 pm

Are your SUD clients struggling with ambivalence? They know they “should” change, but don’t really want to change for a number of reasons, causing them to remain struck.

The answer to fostering high engagement and retention while nurturing the ideal conditions for lasting change?

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, evidence-based strategy for engaging individuals and resolving ambivalence. It’s centered on the idea that each client is the expert of their own life and already has the answers they need. They just need a little help uncovering them.

In this training, you’ll learn how to use affirmation and reflections to quickly get on the same page as your clients. You’ll also learn to engage clients with compassion, critical listening skills, and strategies to help them uncover their own motivation toward change and move through the critical stages of change.

In this training you will learn these Motivational Interviewing Skills:

  • PACE: Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Evocation

  • OARS: Open-ended Questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summaries

  • DARN-CAT: Desire, Ability, Reasons, Need, Commitment, Actuation, Taking Steps

Through the use of practical, interactive activities, you will practice these skills as you learn to identify and emphasize change talk and minimize sustain talk. You’ll explore specific techniques to help your clients get clarity.

Fee

  • $150.00/person

Continuing Education

  • ASAP-NYCB approved for 6 hours of CARC electives, CARC/CRPA Renewal

  • OASAS approved for CASAC, CPP, CPS, Renewal Hrs.

  • Social Work credits

Who Should Attend

  • Human Service Providers, Social Workers, Addiction Professionals, Criminal Justice Professionals, Peer Professionals, Case Managers

Group Discounts

  • Available for 3 or more participants from a program.

  • Email Lisa Ardner - lisa@apurpose4life.com for company check processing.

Refund Policy

All registration is final. There are no refunds. If we are notified within 24 hours of the class, we can roll your enrollment fee to an alternative training or training date.

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Trauma Responsive Care - Intermediate

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Get the real skills to put your basic trauma-informed care training into practice. In real life. With confidence and ease.

Discover the answer to the question, “I have had trauma-informed care training. Now what?“

Combine the empowering tools of Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Care to effectively work with clients and avoid re-traumatization.

 In this course, you will learn…

  • Practical trauma debriefing skills to gain the confidence to work with distressed individuals so that if you’re the first person they tell about their trauma, you know how to handle any retriggering that may occur.

  • The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (PACE: Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Empowerment) for a trauma-informed approach that creates a space of safety, trust, and choice.

  • How to increase empathy and compassion and maintain professional boundaries.

  • How to recognize vicarious trauma and empathy fatigue and turn them into vicarious resilience.

  • Emotional regulation to remain calm and centered to create trust and safety and get better engagement and retention when working with clients who have a trauma history.

 Who should attend?

  • CASAC’s/CPP/CPS and other health care professionals

  • Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Medical Professionals, School Counselors, Case Managers, and Criminal Justice Professionals

  • Everyone looking to improve their supervisory skills

  • All who want an Advanced or Master’s CASAC in NYS

  • Team leaders or professionals on track to become supervisors

Fee

  • $150.00/person

Continuing Education

  • NYS OASAS approved for 6 hours of CASAC, CPP, CPS, Renewal Hrs.

  • Mental Health and Health Care providers, Support Staff

 Group Discounts

  • Available for 3 or more participants from a program.

  • Email lisa@apurpose4life.com for company check processing.

Refund Policy

All registration is final. There are no refunds. If we are notified within 24 hours of the class, we can roll your enrollment fee to an alternative training or training date.

Questions

Other Trainings Available:

  • Basic, Intermediate, Advanced & Coaching

    Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based communication approach that is useful across multiple disciplines. This simple conversation style has been shown to be most effective with people struggling with ambivalence. Motivational Interviewing is strength-based, person centered, trauma-informed approach that encourages autonomy. It has been found to improve engagement, retention, and listening and communication skills. People who practice MI embrace radical acceptance and adhere to the belief that the individual is the expert in their own life. Learn the importance of affirmations, reflections, unconditional positive regard, and choice in the change process.

    ASAP-NYCB approved for 5 and 10 hours CRPA/CARC renewal. Social Work credits available.

    OASAS approval for up to 12 hours of CASAC/CPP/CPS renewal.

  • Trauma First Aid for Peers is an interactive, experiential training for those who provide peer services and their supervisors. This training is appropriate for those working in a substance use, mental health, life coaching and medical settings. Peer supervisors will gain coaching skills to use with peers around Trauma Informed Care principles. Up to 85% of individuals with substance use disorder suffer from trauma in their past. Trauma can be a trigger to burnout, poor boundary setting and vicarious trauma. Trauma First Aid gives you the skills to navigate these situations, make good referrals, & practice good self-care.

    ASAP-NYCB approved for 6 hours (Trauma 101) and 7 hours (Trauma First Aid) CARC elective and CRPA/CARC renewal.

    OASAS approval for 6 hours CASAC renewal.

  • Cultural Humility: A Journey to Improved Outcomes training was developed by CCSI And OASAS 12-16 hours. 2 and 3-hour miniseries on Implicit Bias, Racism, and Microaggressions. This course is a journey on exploration of who we are, what motivates us and those we serve as well as where to best place our curious nature in growing an appreciation for those we serve as cultural beings. This will explore trauma-informed coaching through a cultural lens and Motivational Interviewing as a strategy for cross-cultural engagement and community in order to build rapport and trust. This course includes independent study and synchronous training.

    ASAP-NYCB approved for 12 hours (Cultural Competence) and 2 hours (Implicit Bias, Microaggressions/Racism) CARC elective and CRPA/CARC renewal. Social Work Credits available.

    OASAS approval for up to 24 hours CASAC renewal.

  • •Motivational Interviewing (4-hour asynchronous Thinkific course)

    •Embracing Families with a Loved One in Substance Use Disorder (SUD)

    •Healing from Loss (Grief and Loss during the Opioid Overdose Epidemic)

    •Intermediate Trauma Responsive Care & Motivational Interviewing

    •Motivational Interviewing Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced

    •Motivational Interviewing for Social Work Students

    •Motivational Interviewing for Groups

    •Motivational Interviewing for Employee Assistance Programs

    •Motivational Interviewing - Spirit, Skills, and Practice for Peers

    •Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Responsive Care

    •Vaccine Hesitancy using Motivational Interviewing

    •Nurtured Heart Approach for SUD

    •Nurtured Heart Approach for Peer Supervisors and Professionals

    •Trauma Responsiveness for Criminal Justice

    •Trauma Responsiveness for Behavioral Healthcare

    •Vicarious Trauma/Vicarious Resilience

    •Medication Supported Recovery (MSR) and MSR Train the Trainer

    •Trauma First Aid for Peers

    •Implicit Bias and Racism/Microaggressions

    •SBIRT and SBIRT Youth - Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment with a Motivational Interviewing Lens

    •Healing from Loss (Grief and Loss during Opioid Overdose Epidemic)

    •Wellness – the SAMHSA 8 Stages of Wellness

    •Journey to Wellness Retreat

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training: A Step-by-Step Guide to Empower Others Toward Positive Change and Growth

    Available 24/7, this on-demand course includes expertly designed lessons, demonstrations, and exercises led by skilled members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) with lived MI experience in numerous fields, including mental health, substance use disorder, and criminal justice.

    It also includes learning guides and quizzes to build confidence and competence in MI.

    This MI Training is based on the latest edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow and addresses the application of MI across fields, including healthcare, education, mental health, social services, criminal justice, restorative justice, and anywhere conversations of change take place. Click to learn more: Motivational Interviewing (MI) A Step by Step Guide to Empower Others Towards Change and Growth

  • Have you been wanting to include a family program n your SUD/Mental Health Program? Does your staff have all the theory and none of the practical skills? Hire us to equip your staffto support family members and Concerned Significant Others in the process. Register to Attend this virtual 6 hour Training on April 30, 2024 9-4 pm for an unforgettable training experience.

  • Resilience and Self-Care is an interactive, experiential 3 or 6 hour training designed to assist peer professionals, supervisors, and clinicians in dealing with stress, vicarious trauma, and empathy fatigue. It focuses on self-care and strengthening resilience to promote job satisfaction and longevity in the field.

  • Launching in Fall 2024, you will discover a menu of 1 and 2 hour on-demand continuing education trainings today's workforce are asking for.

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