SoC Best Practices | Autism 101: Essential Info for BH Providers

Presented by Barry Grossman, PhD & Ruth Aspy, PhD

The need for autism-informed providers far exceeds the availability of trained professionals. The Autism 101 course provides essential information for professionals who encounter autistic youth during the course of their work. The characteristics of autism and neurological foundations will be discussed. Participants will practice recognizing the characteristics of autism that impact behavior and may often be misunderstood.

3 CEUs 

TRAINING EVENTS ARE SPONSORED by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Ohio Department of Medicaid. These professional development events are free for Ohio’s System of Care workforce. If you are not a provider supporting Ohio’s System of Care, but are interested in a training, please click here to contact us.

Please review the following virtual training policies to ensure a productive and respectful learning environment.  

1.Registration: Each person must be registered individually and use their unique link to join the Zoom training. A reconfirmation email was sent to registered persons which contained your link to this training. Your unique link is used for attendance purposes and verification for CEs. 

2.Connection: Bandwidth issues: inform your agency and make plans to access a working connection. Chromebook or similar devices complicate your connection, and you will not be able to obtain chat information etc. Phoning in with audio (no video) cannot verify attendance, and you will be removed from the training. 

3.Artificial Intelligence: To ensure a safe training experience, there is no AI permitted. Any AI present will be removed. Zoom auto transcripts are available. 

4.Engagement: Please review your pre-training email with handouts (if available) before the training. Login on time and be prepared. Actively participate in group discussions and breakout rooms. Behaviors should be the same as in-person training, and limit multi-tasking activities (phone calls, side conversations or meetings, emails, driving in your car, being online in unrelated topics, etc.). Cameras must be on, and participants must be in view. If you do not have a working camera or wi-fi, please problem solve this before the day of training. 

5.Earn CE/Attendance Certificate: You must attend at least 90% of the training (attending breaks does not qualify towards CE eligibility). After the training, you will receive a Qualtrics link to complete an evaluation survey. NOTE: If you’re licensed, the license number you provided will be uploaded to CE Broker, so you can access confirmation. Attendance certificates will continue to be emailed. Please allow 4 weeks for distribution, and check your Spam/Junk folder before reaching out. 

Thank you again for joining us for this training. Please email Pat LeGrand pxl502@case.edu if you have any questions.

New IHBT Trainings Registration Platform and Protocol | CIPCCOE iTacit

To register for the forthcoming iTacit platform, you must create an individual iTacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.

The Center for Innovative Practice (CIP) and the Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (COE), as a training and technical assistance center, has made the decision to utilize a new learning management system to support and enhance all of our training and professional development spaces.

The learning management system selected was the Itacit system. The learning management system, Itacit, provides one centralized electronic hub where our learners can access:

– Our full catalog of training events and training modules
– New asynchronous training offerings
– Live virtual training event registration links
– An individual, personalized user profile of trainings completed by user
– User profile with certificates of attendance and/or CE certificates earned

The new learning management system supports the evolution and modernization of our training center while also improving the experience of our learners and providing learners with enhanced functionality and access to their training records.

We will be working towards full implementation of the new learning management system over the next nine (9) months.

We will slowly phase in various training topics and target audiences. At this time, we ask that you create your own personalized itacit user profile. We have provided a “how to” with screenshots below. If you have any questions or need assistance with the user profile creation process please email us at pxl502@case.edu

To access training you must create your own individual iTacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com.

Also, learn more about our new learning management system by click here for PDF of how to sign on to iTacit. And click here for PDF of How to Register for Training Session and Zoom Meeting.