Trainings

Primeros Auxilios de Salud Mental (MHFA) de Adultos para las Comunidades Hispanohablantes enseña a las personas a reconocer los signos de un problema de salud mental o de uso de sustancias en adultos de 18 años o más; cómo ofrecer y proporcionar la ayuda inicial y cómo guiar a una persona hacia la atención apropiada si fuera necesario. Los temas tratados son la ansiedad, la depresión, la psicosis y las adicciones.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for Corrections Professionals equips staff with the knowledge and skills to identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance use challenges in their peers. By providing support and resources, correctional facilities can help staff cope with the challenges they face, reduce burnout, and promote a positive work environment that benefits both staff and the people they serve.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for Higher Education helps prepare your campus to address mental health and substance use challenges in higher education settings. This course teaches early intervention techniques and improves mental health literacy to help you understand, identify, and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges on campus.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for Fire and EMS can help strengthen your community and get your firefighters and EMS personnel certified in a trusted, evidence-based early intervention training program. Firefighters and EMS personnel are constantly exposed to traumatic events and life-threatening situations that can take a toll on mental health. This training can help create a healthier, more resilient, and productive department.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for Military, Veterans, and their Families is developed for adults to learn how to help and support members of their community who may be facing a mental health or substance use challenge. This training specifically focuses on mental health as it is related to military culture. You will learn about specific risk factors such as mental and physical trauma faced by many service members and their families, how to break down stigma, and how to reach out to those who suffer in silence and are reluctant to seek help.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for Older Adults teaches skills to help and support older adults who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge. Older adults have high rates of late-onset mental health challenges, like anxiety and depression, and low rates of treatment. Whether you need to help today or years from now, this training gives you the confidence you need to support older adults live as comfortably and independently as possible.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for Rural Communities helps adults acknowledge and begin to address disparities in access to care in rural settings as well as identify the many strengths that come from living in a community of supportive neighbors, friends, and families. In this training you will learn to identify, understand, and help someone who may be facing a mental health or substance use challenge.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is designed for adults who often interact with young people such as parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, health care workers, and more. The goal of this training is to teach adults how to help adolescents (age 12-18) facing a mental health or substance use challenges or in crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical development and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations.

In this training you will learn to recognize and respond to adolescents age 12-18 who may be facing a mental health or substance use challenge or crisis. This training is created specifically for Tribal Communities and Indigenous peoples. It acknowledges and honors Tribal Communities’ and Indigenous Peoples’ practices while sharing practical tools to help youth facing mental health challenges.

Adult Mental Health First Aid teaches people how to recognize signs of mental health or substance use challenges in adults, how to offer and give help, and how to guide a person toward care if needed.

Medicaid Essentials training made for representatives who help guide people interested in learning more about Medicaid Expansion and is available in both English and Spanish. The training includes steps to figure out and confirm if a person is eligible for Medicaid, answer common questions, and share resources.

In this training you will learn what a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is as well as who may be eligible for the Waiver. You will also hear about the supports that are offered for members on the Waiver and learn about local resources.

In this training you will learn what trauma is, the different types of trauma, the impact of trauma, and the power of resiliency.

Change for Life: Tobacco-Free Recovery empowers behavioral health organizations to: • Adopt and implement tobacco-free campus policies • Integrate best practice tobacco treatment into services • Employ shared messaging that supports a positive tobacco-free culture of care for clients and staff This training gives an overview on why it is important for behavioral health agencies to adopt a tobacco-free campus policy and integrate best practice tobacco treatment into their services.

In this training you will learn about the types of diabetes, risk factors for diabetes, the life impact of diabetes, and tools and resources for diabetes management.

This 1-hour training gives an overview of Alliance Health and the Tailored Plan. This includes topics such as eligibility, services covered, and who to reach out to with questions or concerns.

Eating Healthy on a budget: During this training you will learn the benefits of healthy eating along with tips and tools for meal planning and keeping to your budget.

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer. These are the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. People trained in QPR learn the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.

NC Medicaid Managed Care: This training provides and overview of NC Medicaid Transformation.

Stewards of Children® is a trauma and evidence-informed training that teaches adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Through the lived experience of survivors and the testimony of experts, Stewards of Children® teaches adults practical actions they can take to lower chances of child sexual abuse in their organizations, families, and communities.

Better at home: Housing is healthcare. The Better at Home housing training series is designed to increase provider and stakeholder competencies around supportive housing as a means to increase health and well-being for the people we serve.

During this one-hour overview training you will learn about the values and principles that guide SOC, how SOC is working in your community and how you can be a part of it.

During this three-hour training you will learn the fundamentals of Child and Family Teams, and skills for engaging with parents using the values and principles of CFTs.

In this training, you will learn tools to manage a crisis or conflict as well as de-escalation skills. We will also share community resources and the session will end with role play and feedback.