Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Center of Excellence and Center for Innovative Practices

This is a 3-part series that can be attended in any order. Orientation & Phase 1 focuses on the main components of the IHBT high-fidelity model along with the key techniques and strategies utilized to engage families and complete multidimensional assessments. Phase 2 focuses on resiliency orientation and applications to increase skills, improve relationships, and enhance social support networks. Phase 3 & Special Topics focuses on multisystem collaboration, family team meetings, and case closings with empowerment and celebration. Additionally, a variety of issues unique to IHBT are presented including strategies to support the workforce and unique topics to home-based family treatment. This is an excellent orientation for administrators and program managers, and a must-have start up training for new programs and new workers.

IHBT is an intensive, time-limited behavioral health service for youth with serious emotional disabilities and their families. It is provided in the home, school, and community where the youth lives with the goal of stabilizing behavioral health concerns and safely maintaining the youth in the least restrictive, most normative environment. This is a 3-part series that can be attended in any order. Orientation & Phase 1 focuses on the main components of the IHBT high-fidelity model along with the key techniques and strategies utilized to engage families and complete multidimensional assessments. Phase 2 focuses on resiliency orientation and applications to increase skills, improve relationships, and enhance social support networks. Phase 3 & Special Topics focuses on multisystem collaboration, family team meetings, and case closings with empowerment and celebration. Additionally, a variety of issues unique to IHBT are presented including strategies to support the workforce and unique topics to home-based family treatment. This is an excellent orientation for administrators and program managers, and a must-have start up training for new programs and new workers.

Presented by Heather Distin

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Designed for professionals already certified in CANS. This training will teach participants how to administer the CANS in order to meet FFPSA requirements including, roles, responsibilities, family and permanency team engagement, engagement in “teaming”, use of the decision support model, crafting a concise justification and developing necessary court documentation.

3 CEs pending for SW, C, Psych, RN, LPN and Chemical Dependency Counselor
Connection: To ensure CIP COE provides top quality training and learning experiences, all participants must have their cameras on for the entire training event to attend and receive credit. The attendance and participation expectations are the same for virtual and in-person training events: no multitasking, follow along, engage, and participate in discussions and other activities, no traveling in a car or attending concurrent meetings.

Note: If you join the training without your camera on, you will be removed and need to reschedule.

1. Bandwidth issues: inform your agency and make plans to access a connection that is conducive for camera-on, engaged learning.

2. Chromebook or similar devices generally complicate your connection. You will not be able to obtain chat information etc.; you will need alternative options.

3. Phoning in with audio (no video) cannot verify attendance, you will be removed from the training and unable to earn credits.

This training will present the core Mobile Response Stabilization Service (MRSS) model and components. MRSS is a mobile stabilization intervention for youth, young adults, and their families who are experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis. The purpose of the program is to serve children in their homes, schools, and communities, reduce the number of visits to hospital emergency rooms, divert children from inpatient hospitalization if a lower level of care is a safe and effective alternative, and decrease the number of unnecessary arrests in school or in the community.  

Offered once per month on the second Thursday of each month from 9am-10am. Designed for professionals to “drop in” and receive technical assistance on implementation, operations, and practice applications. Register once and select dates you would like to attend.

One of the four pillars of wraparound practice is the identification and utilization of unmet need statements within the care planning process. Participants in this session will gain an understanding of unmet need statements as a tool for articulating the underlying conditions that give rise to the challenges faced by individuals and families. Participants will learn ways to use need statements to frame concerns held by youth and families in a way that speak to the “why” rather than simply the “what” of a situation. Participants will learn to use this framework in supporting teams to build effective help and support plans with families they get to serve.

This training will present the core Mobile Response Stabilization Service (MRSS) model and components. MRSS is a mobile stabilization intervention for youth, young adults, and their families who are experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis. The purpose of the program is to serve children in their homes, schools, and communities, reduce the number of visits to hospital emergency rooms, divert children from inpatient hospitalization if a lower level of care is a safe and effective alternative, and decrease the number of unnecessary arrests in school or in the community. 

The Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS assessment tool has been developed for broad application across multiple systems, including youth involved in child protection, developmental disability, department of youth services, and mental health and addiction. The CANS assessment tool gathers all dimensions of the youth and family story to determine needs and strengths and integrates multiple storytellers capturing the voice of the youth and family to produce a full consensus-based assessment. This training will satisfy the Ohio live training requirement and prepare participants to take the CANS certification exam.

The Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS assessment tool has been developed for broad application across multiple systems, including youth involved in child protection, developmental disability, department of youth services, and mental health and addiction. The CANS assessment tool gathers all dimensions of the youth and family story to determine needs and strengths and integrates multiple storytellers capturing the voice of the youth and family to produce a full consensus-based assessment. This training will satisfy the Ohio live training requirement and prepare participants to take the CANS certification exam.

Moderate Care Coordination (MCC), model specific training explores the core functions of wrapround informed care coordination principles and practices. Participants will examine how the wraparound practice pillars are applied within the constructs of the wraparound informed model, MCC.

This 3-hour training aids in identifying areas of challenges for collaborative youth and family engagements and offers guided strategies toward increasing success in this area.  It is built on the foundations from the Ohio Children’s Initiative TCOM and CANS training and the CANS Assessment 101: The Initial Assessment – Guided Conversations and Collaborations training, though neither are prerequisite for attending this training.  While the ideas and strategies are applicable to an initial CANS assessment, the greatest utility may be for those updating CANS with children/youth and their families and for Care Coordination.

This training will cover core skills and tasks necessary for facilitating effective High-Fidelity Wraparound (HFWA) meetings. Topic areas included are HFWA meeting format and structure, pre-meeting planning tasks, and team formation and member engagement. Examples of micro skills frequently utilized (redirecting, reframing, summarizing, validation, reflecting) will be illustrated.

One of the practice pillars of wraparound is “Determined by Family”, often articulated as “family voice and choice”. This training will provide participants with skills and understanding about how this critical feature of the process can be implemented in ways that assure family voice and choice in valid ways throughout the Care Coordination process. Participants will explore a brief history of efforts to build inclusive settings for families in the care process, tools for understanding family perspective, and opportunities to help others around a family align with this perspective in their interactions with families and teams.

The MRSS Learning Community is a semi-structured group learning environment that offers a mix of didactic learning, applied case consultation, reflective discussion, and peer to peer learning opportunities. Learning community is focused on the MRSS standards and practice applications. Target audience: MRSS staff, supervisors/leadership.

Intensive Care Coordination (ICC), model specific training explores the pathways, tasks, and skills used by Care Coordinators to implement High Fidelity Wraparound within the Care Coordination process. Participants will examine the application of core wraparound practices across the stages of implementation.

This training will present the key elements of MRSS Supervision. Key areas that will be covered include the core supervisory roles and functions in MRSS including program management and clinical oversight of Mobile Response Stabilization Services (MRSS). Supervisors will learn how to utilize the MRSS practice standards to provide supervisory oversight of staffing, caseload management, and progression through MRSS practice phases. Tracking and staffing 24/7 outreach availability and the use of daily team meetings for progress updates will be discussed.

One of the four pillars of wraparound practice is teaming for planning and delivering help and support with families. This session will explore the unique nature of wraparound teams, the ways in which they are similar to and vary from other team-based approaches. Qualities and features of effective teams will be reviewed with an emphasis on helping participants identify practice patterns that will support the development of effective teams in the Care Coordination process. Aspects of team membership and member support will be highlighted.

Care Coordinators providing High Fidelity Wraparound experience multiple ethical challenges in their daily work. This training will introduce the Care Coordinator and their Supervisors to ethical issues commonly encountered in Wraparound and strategies for managing them. This training will include the following content areas: 1) Managing confidentiality in Wraparound; 2) Maintaining professional boundaries with all child and family team members; 3) Professional responsibilities for mandated reporting; 4) Working within your scope of practice; and 5) Managing ethical dilemmas.

There is a social justice movement that is occurring about the importance of being identified as neuro-divergent. In this training we review the definitions of neurodiversity and neurodivergence and discuss its connection to social justice and neurodevelopmental disorders. We will review the diagnostic criteria and assessment processes for neurodevelopmental disorders. Finally, we will discuss ways to adapt our practices to better serve all our clients.

The MRSS Learning Community is a semi-structured group learning environment that offers a mix of didactic learning, applied case consultation, reflective discussion, and peer to peer learning opportunities. Learning community is focused on the MRSS standards and practice applications. Target audience: MRSS staff, supervisors/leadership.

Sexual minority or queer youth are coming out at earlier ages, in part attributed to the higher visibility of LGBTQ+ people in everyday life, the media, and greater access to information about sexual minorities. Unfortunately, individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ have higher risk factors for suicidality, substance abuse, bullying, and homelessness. This training will begin by introducing the concept of queer theory and exploring how privilege and prejudice effect the queer community. Participants will learn current terminology while exploring LGBT+ history and the developmental processes of queer youth.

This monthly series identifies parents/caretakers as the natural family leaders and provides engaging, skill-building sessions that can be implemented virtually or in-person. It can be a challenge to engage parents/caretakers, who frequently have their own trauma histories and stressors to deal with, on top of their concerns about their children. These sessions are designed to help parents to reframe problem behaviors, upgrade or improve their parenting skills as their children move through new developmental stages, and strengthen their relationships. Providers at all levels will be able to engage and lead these 18 sequenced sessions (12 family sessions and 6 parent/caretaker sessions), designed to stabilize, support and strengthen families. Sessions are modular and flexible; providers can deliver them in one, or across several appointments.

The widespread impact of trauma is being recognized at the same time as the importance of knowledge on diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this training we will discuss ways to foster a climate the values diversity in the different families we serve. We will review how racism and structural disadvantage impact attitudes, behaviors, and expectations in behavioral health. Finally, we will discuss ways to increase equity in our interactions with the families we serve.

The MRSS Learning Community is a semi-structured group learning environment that offers a mix of didactic learning, applied case consultation, reflective discussion, and peer to peer learning opportunities. Learning community is focused on the MRSS standards and practice applications. Target audience: MRSS staff, supervisors/leadership.

This monthly series identifies parents/caretakers as the natural family leaders and provides engaging, skill-building sessions that can be implemented virtually or in-person. It can be a challenge to engage parents/caretakers, who frequently have their own trauma histories and stressors to deal with, on top of their concerns about their children. These sessions are designed to help parents to reframe problem behaviors, upgrade or improve their parenting skills as their children move through new developmental stages, and strengthen their relationships. Providers at all levels will be able to engage and lead these 18 sequenced sessions (12 family sessions and 6 parent/caretaker sessions), designed to stabilize, support and strengthen families. Sessions are modular and flexible; providers can deliver them in one, or across several appointments.

The MRSS Learning Community is a semi-structured group learning environment that offers a mix of didactic learning, applied case consultation, reflective discussion, and peer to peer learning opportunities. Learning community is focused on the MRSS standards and practice applications. Target audience: MRSS staff, supervisors/leadership.

The widespread impact of trauma is being recognized at the same time as the importance of knowledge on diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this training we will discuss ways to foster a climate the values diversity in the different families we serve. We will review how racism and structural disadvantage impact attitudes, behaviors, and expectations in behavioral health. Finally, we will discuss ways to increase equity in our interactions with the families we serve.

This monthly series identifies parents/caretakers as the natural family leaders and provides engaging, skill-building sessions that can be implemented virtually or in-person. It can be a challenge to engage parents/caretakers, who frequently have their own trauma histories and stressors to deal with, on top of their concerns about their children. These sessions are designed to help parents to reframe problem behaviors, upgrade or improve their parenting skills as their children move through new developmental stages, and strengthen their relationships. Providers at all levels will be able to engage and lead these 18 sequenced sessions (12 family sessions and 6 parent/caretaker sessions), designed to stabilize, support and strengthen families. Sessions are modular and flexible; providers can deliver them in one, or across several appointments.

There is a social justice movement that is occurring about the importance of being identified as neuro-divergent. In this training we review the definitions of neurodiversity and neurodivergence and discuss its connection to social justice and neurodevelopmental disorders. We will review the diagnostic criteria and assessment processes for neurodevelopmental disorders. Finally, we will discuss ways to adapt our practices to better serve all our clients.