Learning Center

Join us! Dr. Kristin Dempsey's Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) workshop will address how to use evidence-based strategies for assessing lethality and how to initiate collaborative conversations to engage at-risk individuals in safety planning and linkage to care. Building community resources and creating support networks for staff and community members will also be addressed. 

In this introductory workshop, the four essential components of motivational interviewing: "spirit" of MI, MI micro skills, MI process, and change talk will be explored. Join Kristin Dempsey, EdD, LMFT, LPCC full-time faculty member at the Wright Institute and practicing psychotherapist who will discuss how each of these components work together to help engage individuals in problem exploration and/or behavior change.

Join Dr. Rick Goscha, co-developer of the Strengths Model, accomplished author, and international speaker and Ally Mabry, LMSW, Strengths Model implementation specialist, to learn how to make a positive impact in people's lives while keeping your work grounded and purposeful. Dr. Goscha and Ally Mabry have worked with organizations providing case management services around the world to make practice changes that lead to improved outcomes.

Join Erica Thomas Immenschuh, a licensed clinical social worker in Kansas and Missouri and founder of ETI-LLC, for this introductory DBT workshop. It is presented in three segments to provide an overview of the core DBT principles that improve clients’ safety and their emotional and behavioral control. Daily emphasis is placed on understanding and practicing a DBT specific clinical approach and the skills within the Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance modules.

In this three-day training brought to you by California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS), national trainers Alison Hendricks and Cindy Rollo will assist behavioral health practitioners understand the basics of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), an evidenced-based practice for children, adolescents and their parents and caregivers impacted by trauma. A master’s degree in counseling (e.g., social work, counseling, etc.) is required to attend this training and become proficient in the model at the conclusion of the training protocol.