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• Heal Vicarious Trauma with Healing Informed Self-Care

  • When
    04/23/2024
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    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    48
  • Registered
    12 registrants

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  When working with people who are in the midst of personal crisis, trauma, or emotional distress, it is common to eventually exhaust yourself from vicarious trauma (aka secondary trauma or compassion fatigue). This workshop is focused on ways to exercise self-care and self-compassion for human services professionals. Self-compassion involves treating ourselves with the care that you would offer a close friend. We will discuss the benefits of self-compassion and how to cope with caregiver fatigue. We will also talk about how to incorporate self-compassion into everyday life. We encourage you to fight caregiver fatigue by taking this time to learn to care for yourself at this enjoyable, interactive workshop.

  Participants will learn about the impact of traumatic stress on the brain and on the body. Concepts of vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout will be addressed. Finally, we will explore organizational and personal strategies that can be employed to mitigate the effects of secondary traumatic stress.

  Causes of vicarious trauma

  Your clients may have experienced trauma associated with childhood abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault or other violent crimes, disasters, war, forced migration, or even political torture. Vicarious traumatic stress is now recognized as an occupational hazard of providing direct services to populations with histories of trauma. Vicarious trauma involves a transformation which occurs in the inner experience of the human services practitioner as a result of empathetic engagement with their clients' traumatic experiences. The emotional costs of caring for clients with histories of trauma can be significant, including the loss of personal and professional resiliency. A growing body of research evidence has demonstrated that secondary traumatic stress has the potential to erode work performance, undermine motivation and morale, and adversely impact the personal health of the practitioner.

  Healing (Trauma) Informed Self-Care (HISC) is an important best practice model for all direct care workers to understand. Understanding Healing Informed self-care is at least as important in the direct care field. Research in trauma, neuropsychology, positive psychology and other disciplines identify several approaches to self-care that help mitigate stress, trauma, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue and burn-out. Understanding how we are affected, as well as how we can care well for ourselves and others, will undoubtedly help us lead and shape the future together. Learning objectives include the following.

  By the end of the training, learners will be able to:

  • Describe Stress, Trauma, Secondary Trauma, Burn-Out, Compassion Fatigue, Zoom Fatigue, Moral Fatigue &/or Comparative Suffering;
  • Be able to identify symptoms in yourself and others and know how to access help;
  • Understand what predicts Vicarious Trauma;
  • Become aware of causes and consequences in order to help decrease vulnerability;
  • Practice self-administered stress reduction relaxation techniques
  • Identify at least one way to insulate themselves from Vicarious/Secondary Trauma, Burn-Out &/or Compassion Fatigue
  • Identify at least one thing they will do for better Self-Care.

  
  

  

  Presenter: Melinda Marasch, LCSW
  Aspire Training & Consulting

  It is my honor to do exciting work with the amazing, compassionate people in the nonprofit world! It has been my life’s passion to help others, first as a psycho-therapist and now as a consultant. I specialize in clinical supervision in the form of training (in-person and online), as well as individual and group sessions. We serve licensed and unlicensed individuals, as well as programs and organizations. I have expertise in many areas, including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, mental illnesses and much more. I also provide coaching to clients who are motivated to maximize their assets. 

  Eligible for 3 hours Certificate of Completion

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• Healing (Trauma)-Informed Care

  • Start
    05/02/2024
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  • End
    05/03/2024
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    43
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  This two-day training series provides a foundation of knowledge and skill in providing Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) to clients of all walks of life. This training focuses on enhancement of knowledge, skill and confidence of direct care providers in work with those stressed and/or traumatized. Information regarding stress and trauma will include common terms (e.g. secondary trauma, burn-out, compassion fatigue, etc), and will create an understanding of the holistic effects of stress and trauma on individuals, as well as the effects on direct service providers. This content will also provide an understanding of the impact of trauma on the brain, planning, processing, learning, relating and more. Motivational Interviewing and other approaches will be utilized to apply TIC and other concepts to client scenarios.

  By the end of the TIC training series, you will be able to...

  • Explain TIC to a colleague;

  • Understand the ways stress/trauma might impact clients or you;

  • Explore ways you can be more healing-informed in your work;

  • Identify at least one thing you could do for effective self-care

  • Apply TIC approaches to client scenarios; and

  • Develop a plan for utilizing TIC strategies on the job.

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  WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Front-line workers and supervisors across mental health and human services sectors. Includes (but is not limited to) those working in assisted living, homelessness, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, community and family services, juvenile justice, corrections.

  Testimonials
  

  • For someone new to the field, this was extremely helpful!
  • This training really improved my interactions and gave me the push I needed.
  • Use information on a daily basis. Helps structure meetings and address critical issues.
  

  • Loved this training! So applicable and valuable in our positions

  Eligible for 6 hours Certificate of Completion

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  Presenter: Melinda Marasch, LCSW
  Aspire Training & Consulting

  It is my honor to do exciting work with the amazing, compassionate people in the nonprofit world! It has been my life’s passion to help others, first as a psycho-therapist and now as a consultant. I specialize in clinical supervision in the form of training (in-person and online), as well as individual and group sessions. We serve licensed and unlicensed individuals, as well as programs and organizations. I have expertise in many areas, including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, mental illnesses and much more. I also provide coaching to clients who are motivated to maximize their assets.

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• Direct Service Provider Series 2024

  • Start
    05/09/2024
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  • End
    06/26/2024
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    44
  • Registered
    6 registrants

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  Are you providing the kind of high quality service you want to offer? Do you or your employees need skills training in multiple competencies in order to get up to speed? Are you taking care of your clients in the most effective and efficient way? Are you taking care of yourself and your career?

  This comprehensive training and certification program can help. The Network is proud to present the Direct Service Provider Series in partnership with Aspire Training and Consulting. Most direct care resources and trainings focus on psychotherapy. This series focuses on practical approaches, successfully modified to fit case management and other helping relationships, that are NOT primarily therapeutic in nature.
  

  This series of six intensive workshops will be conducted from May 9 through June 26.  All are half-day webinars. The goal of each session is to enhance knowledge, skill and confidence in providing effective client-centered care. 

  18 hours of intensive personal online training and coaching with over 8 hours of supplemental virtual training for a total of 26 hours training and coaching.

  Learning Objectives

  • Define my Success
    
  • Understand Self Care
    
  • Review Best Practices in Case Management/Navigation
    
  • Understand the Process of Change
    
  • Learn about the Care Cycle (Intake through Discharge)
    
  • Learn about Therapeutic Communication
    
  • Understand Crisis Management
    
  • Learn about the Care/Treatment Cycle (Intake through Discharge)
    
  • Apply MI & Other Skills in Work with Clients (Intake through Discharge)
    
  • Apply Information & Skills to Case Scenarios
    
  • Plan to Implement Information & Skills on the job
    

  Supplemental Online Trainings include the following topics:
  

  1. Helper as a Person (50 minutes)
     
  2. Therapeutic Communication (40 minutes)
     
  3. Multiculturalism (1 hour 10 minutes)
     
  4. HIPAA (45 minutes)
     
  5. Mandatory Reporting (45 minutes)
     
  6. Stages of Change (40 minutes)
     
  7. Harm Reduction (30 minutes)
     
  8. Service Planning/Monitoring (40 minutes)
     
  9. Approaches to Difficult Situations (30 minutes)
     

  Direct Service Provider Certificate
  

  Aspire Training will provide a certificate of completion for the Direct Service Provider Certification Program, documenting all hours of both in-person and online trainings. Eligible for 26 hours continuing education credit.

  Testimonials
  

  • For someone new to the field, this was extremely helpful!
    
  • You’re awesome, thank you for this opportunity to improve my working relationship with my clients.
    
  • Great information, I enjoyed the examples; they helped me learn how to use these techniques.
    
  • This training really improved my interactions with customers and gave me the push I needed.
    
  • Great class – use information on a daily basis. Helps structure meetings and address critical issues.
    
  • Loved this training! So applicable and valuable in our positions.
    
  • Amazing presentation; so many good ideas and concepts. Great ways to implement.
    
  • As a result of this series:
    
  • I have found better solutions or ways to handle situations.
  • I am able to be a better listener by practicing MI approaches.
  • I feel more confident, and productive in conversations, and feel I more positively impact others.

  

  Presenter: Melinda Marasch, LCSW
  Aspire Training & Consulting

  It is my honor to do exciting work with the amazing, compassionate people in the nonprofit world! It has been my life’s passion to help others, first as a psycho-therapist and now as a consultant. I specialize in clinical supervision in the form of training (in-person and online), as well as individual and group sessions. We serve licensed and unlicensed individuals, as well as programs and organizations. I have expertise in many areas, including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, mental illnesses and much more. I also provide coaching to clients who are motivated to maximize their assets. 

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• Advanced MI Training to address trauma in clients and prevent vicarious trauma in professionals

  • When
    05/16/2024
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    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    57
  • Registered
    3 registrants

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  Trauma is increasingly recognized as a driving factor for causing major mental health and addiction symptoms and can create challenges and obstacles in our work with clients. There is also a growing awareness that professionals get impacted with secondary trauma which can lead to serious symptoms and burnout. A lot of agencies are struggling to help their staff in dealing with trauma in their clients and to help their staff in preventing burnout.

  
  

  Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based practice that is proven to support positive change for clients, but it is also an excellent skillset to prevent secondary trauma and burnout for the practitioner by changing the dynamics of not taking on the tension from our work.

  
  

  After this training you will:

  • Be able to understand and identify secondary trauma symptoms
  • Understand the neuroscience of trauma & PTSD
  • Learn how to turn trauma into resilience
  • Gain confidence in working with clients experiencing trauma

  
  

  Presenter: Avani G. Dilger, MEd, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, CAS, ADS

  Avani specializes in substance abuse prevention and treatment with adults, teens and their families. She is the founder and director of the “Natural Highs – Healthy Alternatives to Drugs & Alcohol” nonprofit program. Avani has been training professionals in in Motivational Interviewing and other evidence-based practices worldwide for over 20 years. Find out more about Avani HERE.

  
  

  Eligible for 3 hours Certificate of Completion

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• Verbal De-Escalation

  • When
    05/23/2024
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    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    45
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  De-escalation of disruptive behavior has become an essential skill, pertinent to all staff providing human services. The need for safe, effective techniques to manage the disruptive client is no longer limited to those who work with severe mental illness in residential or hospital settings.

  To add to the problem, the current de-institutionalization trend has injected thousands of individuals who once were treated on an inpatient basis, into a society which is not quite sure how to manage their behavior. Outpatient mental health facilities are being asked to service clients who formerly had inpatient care. Frequently, staff at a community-based treatment centers do not have the training or experience to manage the aggressive behaviors of clients who were once institutionalized.

  This training provides attendees with a safe, non-harmful techniques, designed to aid human service professionals in the management of disruptive clients. Strategies and specific skills for dealing with clients in varying stages of escalation will be presented and discussed. Non-restraining physical protective maneuvers will be reviewed, demonstrated and discussed. Principles of debriefing and using teaching moments will also be addressed.

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  De-escalation will be presented in three phases:

  • Phase 1 Avoiding escalation through Self Care and Awareness;
  • Phase 2 Anatomy of crisis development and de-escalating skill sets; and
  • Phase 3 Exit maneuvers and debriefing skills.
  

  By the end of the webinar, learners will be able to:

  • Recognize the importance of self-care in how it relates to escalating/de-escalating any situation;
  • Apply de-escalation techniques effective in approaching and reducing the • tension of an agitated person;
  • Understand the impact of their reactions on the agitated person;
  • Utilize tools to control their anxieties during interventions toward maintaining the best possible professional attitude; and

  • Describe nonverbal, para-verbal and verbal skills to maintain the best possible care and welfare, as well as safety and security, for all involved.

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  Presenter: Tracy L. Hutchinson, LPC, MAC, LAC 

  Tracy has been working in the field of Addictions and Mental Health for the past 40 years. Currently, through her Counseling and Consulting private practice, Tracy is a facilitator of professional growth and development for team building. See more information about Tracy HERE.

  
  

  Eligible for 6 hours Certificate of Completion
  

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• Motivational Interviewing June 11,13,18,20

  • Start
    06/11/2024
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  • End
    06/20/2024
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom webinar
  • Spaces left
    18
  • Registered
    13 registrants

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  This evidence-based approach has consistently shown positive outcomes in dealing with resistance and defensiveness. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. It has been successfully used with populations where resistance is prevalent, including adults and adolescents who deal with legal problems, substance abuse and mental health issues. 

  Motivational Interviewing provides a “tool box” of techniques and strategies which will help you to be more effective in working with clients who bring a wide range of challenges. This is a four-day online training with a four-hour session each day. A broadband Internet connection and working webcam are required for participation.

   Attendees will: 

  • Understand the basic principles and skills of Motivational Interviewing

  • Experience a collaborative versus an authoritarian communication style and see how you can effectively decrease defensiveness in clients​;​

  • Learn and practice resistance skills​;

  • Learn and practice directive skills that help move a client towards positive behavior change​;​

  • Be able to elicit commitment language from a client that is correlated to positive outcomes​;​

  • Explore proven implementation strategies that help improve your Motivational Interviewing skills in the field​.

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  Presenter: Avani G. Dilger, MEd, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, CAS 
  Avani specializes in substance abuse prevention and treatment with adults, teens and their families. She is the founder and director of the “Natural Highs – Healthy Alternatives to Drugs & Alcohol” nonprofit program. Avani has been training professionals in in Motivational Interviewing and other evidence-based practices worldwide for over 20 years. Find out more about Avani HERE.

  Eligible for 16 hours Certificate of Completion

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• MI for Supervisors & Champions - August 20 & 22

  • Start
    08/20/2024
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  • End
    08/22/2024
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    24
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  Motivational Interviewing provides a “tool box” of techniques and strategies which will help you to be more effective in working with clients who bring a wide range of challenges. This one-day advanced Motivational Interviewing Training is the next step for teams who are serious about an evidence-based implementation of Motivational Interviewing skills. The development and maintenance of MI skills is a challenge for front-line workers. Participating in the workshops is a great start but ongoing feedback and mentoring are needed in order for most workers to use MI skillfully. This workshop can help enhance both supervisor MI skills and the quality and nature of the mentoring process. It’s a win-win for clients and agency staff alike.
  This advanced MI training is only for those who have already taken the Motivational Interviewing Basic Two-Day training series. The training builds on the two-day MI Skills Training and teaches supervisors and professionals who are passionate about MI how to keep the practice of MI alive within their teams. If you have not undergone the MI Basic Series, please register for that course instead of this one; we conduct MI Basic regularly.

  Participants will leave with an understanding of:
  • the research-based building-blocks of a successful MI implementation
  • MI coaching skills
  • how to facilitate MI practice sessions
  • a manual with tailored MI exercises to build & sustain their team’s MI skills

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  Presenter: Avani G. Dilger, MEd, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, CAS 
  Avani specializes in substance abuse prevention and treatment with adults, teens and their families. She is the founder and director of the “Natural Highs – Healthy Alternatives to Drugs & Alcohol” nonprofit program. Avani has been training professionals in in Motivational Interviewing and other evidence-based practices worldwide for over 20 years. Find out more about Avani HERE.

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  Eligible for 8 hours Certificate of Completion

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