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Clinicians and child providers are often pulled into the expectation of “fixing” a child’s behaviors, emotions, or functioning — a pressure that can create exhaustion, frustration, and even rupture with caregivers. Join us to teach caregivers how to “out therapist” the therapist instead.

• Learn how to collaboratively operationalize and track symptoms with caregivers to support meaningful behavior change.
• Explore practical strategies for helping caregivers apply Functional Behavioral Analysis (FBA) to identify effective parenting approaches.
• Discover ways to re-engage caregivers who feel discouraged, empowering them to take an active and confident role in their child’s growth and healing.

Latiné families, especially immigrant families, continue to experience significant levels of stress and trauma exposure. Despite the need, service utilization remains low due to structural and cultural barriers. This training explores how culturally informed, evidence-based, and evidence-supported trauma care can enhance engagement and outcomes among Latiné children and families.

Participants will gain tools and strategies to bridge gaps in care, integrate cultural values into trauma interventions, and strengthen trauma-informed practices within Latiné communities.

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In this three-day training brought to you by California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS), National trainers Cindy Rollo, LCSW will assist behavioral health practitioners in understanding the basics of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), an evidence-based practice for children, adolescents and their parents and caregivers impacted by trauma. 

This training explores one of the most challenging and often unspoken dynamics in family work—when caregivers experience resentment, aversion, or emotional distance toward their child. Caregivers, under chronic stress or trauma exposure may find themselves emotionally disconnected or even repelled by their child’s behavior. Participants will learn how to approach this topic with empathy using attachment-based and trauma-informed strategies to uncover the roots of disconnection, reduce shame, and rebuild capacity for positive regard. The course will include live demonstrations, experiential activities, and case examples to teach clinical skills and techniques. This course builds your ability to support the engagement of a more supportive caregiver for the child, which is one of the most gratifying skills you will add to your clinical practice.

Proficiency Recertification is now required for TF-CBT proficient clinicians who were trained through CIBHS. Recertification ensures that clinicians providing Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) continue to deliver services with fidelity to the model and in alignment with the most current research, clinical evidence, and culturally responsive adaptations necessary to achieve the best outcomes. As the field of trauma treatment evolves, new findings, practices, and implementation standards are regularly introduced.

All clinicians trained through CIBHS between 2007 and 2020 are now due for recertification.

Please join us for the first Recertification Course on March 9 & 10, 2026, followed by a short written exam to receive your TF-CBT Proficiency Recertification, valid for five years.

This training focuses on the ABC’s of emotional regulation, addressing a core skill often missing in children who present for treatment. Most clinicians feel confident with Affect Expression work—it’s often squarely within our comfort zone. Regulation, on the other hand, can feel more challenging, and many of us are less sure about how to teach these skills effectively to caregivers. Help children and teens manage their emotions and strengthen caregiver-child relationships with practical, evidence-based strategies.

This introductory workshop is designed to equip behavioral health professionals to engage their clients in collaborative, goal-oriented conversations that strengthen motivation and commitment to change. The training focuses on the core principles of Motivational Interviewing including partnership, acceptance, compassion, and evocation and aims to create space to elicit change talk and respond effectively to ambivalence.

This workshop builds upon comprehensive DBT by adapting the standard principles and strategies for adolescents. Behavioral health and clinical staff will understand how to support young people in managing intense emotions and behaviors through an acceptance and change-based approach. Emphasis will be placed on the unique dialectical dilemmas faced by adolescents and caretakers. Attendees will be able to teach the key DBT skill modules of mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation, along with the DBT-A specific Middle Path skills. Additionally. participants will be able to manage youth-specific challenges and engage clients and families in a dialectical approach to reduce self-harm, improve outcomes, foster healthier coping skills, and build a life worth living.

Recovery capital is the internal and external resources that support individuals with substance use and mental health challenges to initiate, sustain, and continue recovery. This 2-hour webinar introduces recovery capital as a systems-informed framework and presents the Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC-10) as an evidence-based tool. Participants will learn how housing, employment, social connection, and system access shape recovery outcomes and how to ethically apply recovery capital data in treatment planning and recovery-oriented systems of care.