Behavioral Health and Healthcare

This microcredential focuses on the following learning objectives:

• Understand how attitudes affect views on suicide and prevention.
• Provide assistance and suicide first aid to a person at risk.
• Identify the elements of a suicide safety plan and the actions needed to implement it.
• Value improving and integrating suicide prevention resources in the community.
• Recognize other aspects of suicide prevention, including self-care.

This microcredential focuses on the following workplace skills that are critical to case management:

• Active listening
• Clear communication
• Leadership abilities
• Measurement and analysis (data-driven)
• Research oriented
• Strategic thinking

This microcredential focuses on the following learning objectives: 

• Describe population-specific case management concerns and approaches. 
• Demonstrate the ability to perform advanced case management skills. 
• Evaluate current ethical and legal challenges faced by case managers.
• Explain the implications of required documentation processes and policies.
• Demonstrate awareness of how diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging impact case management practices.

This microcredential focuses on the following learning objectives: 

• Explore the history, causes, and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout. 
• Examine evidence-based approaches for the prevention and recovery treatment of traumatic stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and other adverse consequences of work-related stress.
• Explore an interdisciplinary approach to fostering resilience for enhanced job satisfaction with career longevity while improving the health, wellness, and mental well-being.

This microcredential focuses on the following learning objectives: 

• Examine the core principles of mindfulness and its application in everyday life. 
• Learn the skills and guidance you need to successfully incorporate mindfulness practices in your life to enhance mental well-being. 
• Learn formal and informal mindfulness practices to support health, wellness, and well-being. 
• Identify ways to manage stress and reduce stress, lower anxiety, improve attention, and improve emotional regulation.
• Improve mental well-being and change habitual reactivity patterns.

This microcredential meets National Institute of Behavioral Medicine Non-Clinical Certification: C-PRS requirements for the Certified Professional Resilience Specialist credential. Learners explore the history, causes, and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout. Skills include examining evidence-based approaches for the prevention and recovery treatment of traumatic stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and other adverse consequences of work-related stress. Provides skills in fostering resilience for enhanced job satisfaction with career longevity while improving the health, wellness, and mental well-being of the professional.

This certification from the Trauma Institute International attests that the bearer has completed the educational requirements necessary to actively build resilience and well-being in their own lives and also an introduction to the skills needed to help others accomplish the same. This certification emphasizes a Salutogenic approach to managing burnout, traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue with a focus on enhancing quality of life and improving a healthy lifestyle. This certification is for social services and mental health professionals, healthcare providers, emergency first responders, and other relationship-intensive occupations.

This microcredential focuses on the following learning objectives addressing a comprehensive and integrated approach to wellness: 

• Exploration of improving health and wellness 
• Describe the impact of physical activity on health and wellness 
• Explain the impact of nutrition on health and wellness 
• Understand the science of sleep
• Examine the impact of spiritual well-being on health and wellness

This microcredential focuses on the following learning objectives: 

• Learn the knowledge and skills to support trauma survivors on their path toward recovery. 
• Identify the principles of trauma-informed care with an interdisciplinary approach to empowering and supporting healing while fostering health and wellness.
• Understand professional resiliency; 
• Learn the principles, role, functions of trauma informed caregiving
• Examine theoretical trends and ethical considerations pertaining to trauma treatment.

Certified Trauma Support Specialist is a certification that attests that the bearer has completed the educational requirements necessary to help non-clinical care professionals learn the essential information and skills to help trauma survivors recover fully. This certification is valuable for non-clinical trauma professionals, mental health staff, nurses, and emergency first responders. Certification demonstrates knowledge of the essential information and skills to help trauma survivors recover fully from the events of their past.

This certification is intended to reintroduce the statewide Child and Family Team (CFT) Facilitator Course initiative and the two associated Train the Trainer courses for providers serving children and adolescents in our Children’s System of Care (CSOC) and have employees who facilitate CFT’s.

This microcredential focuses on developing skills, knowledge, and awareness of behavioral health interviewing microskills. The course includes theory and practice of communication skills to establish and maintain effective helping relationships, with an emphasis on verbal communication, nonverbal communication, rapport building, and active listening skills.

This microcredential focuses on developing skills, knowledge, and awareness of the various forms of documentation required in behavioral health practice. It serves as an introduction to documentation in the helping professions. This program also provides a review of best practices for creating, managing, and maintaining accurate records to enhance client care, service coordination, and manage risk in professional practice.

This microcredential focuses on developing skills, knowledge, and awareness regarding ethical dilemmas, as well as understanding the role of the supervisor and the responsibilities of the treatment team. Students will explore relevant ethical, legal, and professional issues in the helping professions.

The ITMHCA Endorsement® for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health is an internationally recognized credential that supports and recognizes the development and proficiency of professionals who work with or on behalf of pregnant women, infants and young children, birth up to 3-years old, and their families. The ITMHCA Infant Mental Health Endorsement® (IMH-E®) is based on a set of competencies designed to support and enhance culturally-sensitive, relationship focused practice within the framework of infant mental health.

This microcredential is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues.

This microcredential awards the Crisis Prevention Institute's (CPI) Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) Certification. This training will equip the student with problem-solving and decision-making skills to recognize the level of risk and apply the most appropriate verbal and/or physical interventions. It will also help students:

• Improve decision making
• Minimize physical interventions
• Gain the confidence to recognize risk behavior & respond to defensive behaviors
• Understand what’s behind behavior
• Address the needs of the individual

This microcredential focuses on developing skills and awareness needed to become resilient and remain in the behavioral health field. This includes the exploration of the factors related and capacity to build resilience and well-buing to prevent burnout, traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue for social services and mental health professionals, healthcare providers, emergency first responders, and other individuals in the helping professions

This microcredential focuses on addressing basic needs and reduces psychological distress by providing a caring, comforting presence, and education on common stress reactions. It empowers the individual by supporting strengths and encouraging existing coping skills.

The Registered Behavior Technician® (RBT®) certification is a paraprofessional certification in behavior analysis. RBTs assist in delivering behavior-analytic services and practice under the direction and close supervision of an RBT Supervisor and/or RBT Requirements Coordinator who is responsible for their work.

This microcredential focuses on developing skills, knowledge, and awareness of general mental health and addictions. Overview of mental health and addictions, exploring key concepts and common disorders. The course examines the biological, psychological, and social factors influencing these issues.

The Direct Care Worker Level I Fundamentals program is a training program for caregivers, personal

attendants, and direct support professionals. The program equips individuals with the essential knowledge and skills required to provide quality care and support to individuals in various healthcare and community settings. This comprehensive program covers a range of topics that are crucial for those aspiring to work directly with individuals in need of healthcare related assistance due to age, illness, or disability.

Principles of Caregiving: Aging and Physical Disabilities is Level 2 module of the Principles of Caregiving series. It builds on the Fundamentals module, and contains advanced material for Direct Care Workers working with older adults or persons with physical disabilities. The Fundamentals module should be completed first. Some review may be necessary before completing this module.

Principles of Caregiving: Developmental Disabilities is a Level 2 module of the Principles of Caregiving series. It builds on the Fundamentals module, and contains advanced material for Direct Care Workers working with individuals with developmental disabilities. The Fundamentals module should be completed first. Some review may be necessary before completing this module. 

This microcredential focuses on developing skills, knowledge, and awareness to become a leader, manager, supervisor, and coach in the Long-Term Care Careers fields. This microcredential focuses on the following learning objectives: 

• Learn how to define unconscious bias, identify your unconscious bias, types of unconscious bias, unconscious bias and the recruiting process, and give culture context. 
• Develop effective, ethical, innovative skills needed to positively influence services and outcomes.