QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) trains housing providers and community members on the warning signs and risk factors of suicide, how to have a conversation with someone who may be suicidal, how to persuade a suicidal person to not end their life, and how to appropriately refer a suicidal person to behavioral healthcare professionals. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer: the 3 simple moves anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people training in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.
You can register for the training by clicking the link below the training you would like to attend.
The Ohio Adult Care Facilities Association is excited to announce that we will be offering two online opportunities for Residential Facility operators and staff to attend the Personal Care Services and Assistance with Self-Administration of Medication training. These trainings will be in a live webinar and will be presented by Dr. Wendy Umberger.
Dr. Umberger has been on the faculty of Kent State University College of Nursing since 2002 and is currently the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. She is certified as a psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurse since 1987 and has over 30 years of advanced practice nursing experience in the community. Dr. Umberger’s clinical expertise is with patients and families experiencing mental illness who also have co-morbid chronic diseases such as chronic pain and those who are diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness.
Please only sign up for one webinar. Each person attending the webinar must be registered with a valid email. Certificates of attendance for licensure and certification will be emailed to only those that are registered and attend the webinar for the duration of the training.
You can register for the trainings by clicking the link below the training you would like to attend.
eBased Academy Training: http://www.ebasedacademy.org/learn/course/external/view/elearning/103/rcf-personal-care-services-and-assistance-with-self-administration-of-medication-training
Registration Instructions for the eBased Academy: To register yourself to the system click “Register” next to username and password fields on the top left of the homepage.
A pop-up login form will open. Fill all the required details and ideally also the optional ones. Be sure to select the “I accept the terms of the privacy policy” box and click the REGISTER button.
Once you have clicked register, you will receive an additional confirmation message on the screen, which requires you to access your e-mail and confirm your identity by clicking on the confirmation link provided. It may take up to two days (and sometimes longer) to gain access to the training as your registration needs to be processed through our help desk. You can email the helpdesk if you have any questions or issues at: MHAHelpDesk@mha.ohio.gov. Once processed, you can access the training using your username and password that you registered with.
If you have any questions about Personal Care or Assistance with Self Administration of Medication during or after the training, please contact your surveyor or you can email your questions to: liccert@mha.ohio.gov.
The primary purpose of this training is to introduce you to the "Starting Your Residential Facility Class 2 Toolkit" and to aid you in getting started in the licensure process to become a good Residential Facility Class 2 (ACF). This training should provide you the necessary skills to help you on the path of becoming a licensed home.
Owning and operating a Residential Facility Class 2 takes time, lots of preparation, and a commitment to serving the unique needs of your residents. This training will help prepare you for what lies ahead.
Getting licensed to operate a Residential Facility Class 2 means that you want to be a business owner. You will learn what is involved in starting, owning and operating this type of business.
This training will go over the basic information and best practices about operating a Residential Facilities Class 2: Business Plan Development; Getting Your Home Licensed; Business Startup; How to Organize Your Business; Staffing Your Business; Paying Your Staff; Business Finances; Marketing; Forms; and, Getting Residents.
Please note this is not a required class but you will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
Residential Facility Class 2 (Adult Care Facility) Operators and staff will receive 6 hours of mental health training that can apply toward the training requirement from Licensure and Certification.
The family dynamic created in group living is greatly impacted when family members have a serious mental illness. Operators and staff of residential facilities (ACF's) are the family of those living in their homes, many who are struggling with serious mental illness. Understanding the impact of these illnesses in terms of the physical, emotional and symptomatic behaviors can reduce tension in the family dynamic. This training will provide those attending with a recognition of the impact of the illness, the inability to control some behaviors and techniques to most effectively dealing with the dynamics of mental illness in their home. This training will provide information to help recognize behaviors as symptoms and to respond appropriately, will improve communications with clients by utilizing techniques offered in the training, and will create a more stable home environment as a result of increased understanding and symptom management. This is a great training for those providers and staff new to mental health or who are looking to review what they have already learned.
This 6 hour training is broken up into 3 modules (2 hours each). You will need to register only once and attend all 3 modules to receive 6 hours of mental health training for Residential Facility Class 2 licensure and certification.
Please register for Mental Health 101 for 3 modules dated November 10, 2020, November 17, 2020 and November 24, 2020 at this link
(please note you only register once for all 3 modules): https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4785064018367169295
Residential Facility Class 2 (Adult Care Facility) Operators and staff will receive 6 hours of mental health training that can apply towards the training requirement from Licensure and Certification.
Residential Facility Class 2 (Adult Care Facilities) staff members and other housing providers who treat individuals suffering from mental illness in out of home facilities require skills that bring calm while managing mental health crises and aggressive behaviors while maintaining a safe treatment environment. This requires knowledge of best practices in crisis management with knowledge of legal and state mandated resources .
This training focuses on creating a safe environment and providing for an understanding of risk behaviors, behavioral escalation, and trauma and violence prevention. A “core strategy” approach which centers on proactive de-escalation, data driven, and client centered interventions, debriefing and crisis/safety planning.
GOALS:
- Understand the core strategies of creating a “violence free/coercion free” environment
- Understand the emotional and mental illness factors that can lend themselves to a crisis
- Understand proactive interventions to a crisis
- Understand de-escalation and debriefing and the creation of crisis plans
- Understand the impact of suicide behavior and the factors that contribute to it
- Increase awareness of Ohio MH law and knowledge of resources
OBJECTIVES:
- Discuss what mental health crisis entails
- Discuss/review trauma and mental illness symptoms which may lead to a crisis
- Discuss antecedent interventions, behavioral interventions, problem solving skills and recovery interventions
- Discuss aspects of suicide prevention and safety planning
- Discuss empowerment and engagement principles
This 6 hour training is broken up into 3 modules (2 hours each). You will need to register only once and attend all 3 modules to receive 6 hours of mental health training for Residential Facility Class 2 licensure and certification.
Please register for Crisis Intervention and De-Escalation for 3 modules dated December 1, December 8 and December 15, 2020 at this link (please note you only register once for all 3 modules): https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6412855798873564172
Ohio Recovery Housing hosts and coordinates trainings and technical assistance opportunities for recovery housing operators and other interested individuals. Please refer to their website for the most up-to-date opportunities: https://www.ohiorecoveryhousing.org/training.
This training is targeted for Residential Class 2, Recovery Housing and Permanent Supported Housing Operators, Managers and Staff.
This Personal Safety, Effective Communication and Conscious Listening training will help operators, managers and staff be better prepared to deal with personal safety issues, increase staff confidence as the result of having more choices in dealing with safety issues at work, increase moral all leading to a reduced number of incidents and increase in staff performance and gain a further understanding of what another person is thinking or feeling through Conscious Listening.
Over the two module training, Topics Covered will be:
The objectives for this training include:
- Understanding Aner; “My Usual Approach, My Concerns, What I Want From This Training”
- Key Points about Anger: What Angry People Want and Need and The Game of Anger
- How We Communicate
- Reading the Warning Signs and De-Escalation Interventions
- Transforming the Language
- The Communication Stances and Conflict Management Styles
- Conscious Listening: Listening with Intention
- Self Care
This 6 hour training is broken up into 2 modules (3 hours each). You will need to register only once and attend both modules to receive the 6 hours of mental health training for Residential Facility Class 2 licensure and certification
Please register for Personal Safety, Effective Communication and Conscious Listening for 2 modules: December 6, 2020, Registration will be coming shortly.
OhioMHAS is sponsoring FREE trainings for Recovery Housing Professionals late this summer/early fall.
DESCRIPTION:
Medically-Assisted Treatment (MAT) has been a controversial topic in the recovery housing profession. There are legitimate concerns; however, it is a reality that, by law, recovery housing owners, operators, and volunteers, must deal with it. By the end of this training, some may even come to embrace it as a useful tool for achieving the goal of helping people achieve long-term recovery. This all-day workshop is designed specifically for recovery housing owner/operators, staff members, and volunteers! Participants will learn about the myths and realities of medically-assisted treatment (MAT) and how MAT can be converted into medically-assisted recovery (MAR) within their recovery houses. Included in the day will be a workshop to examine policies and procedures that might alleviate any fears staff may have about MAT/MAR while protecting their recovery house(s) from potential legal challenges. Participants will gain a great deal of knowledge about substance-use disorders’ effects on the human brain, how medicines can help, and how incorporating “best practices” can be adopted and adapted to their particular circumstances.
OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this eight-hour training session, participants will be able to do the following:
- Define MAT and MAR.
- Explain some of the underlying brain disorders and experiences that cause substance-use disorders.
- Describe in general terms the ways the brain processes drugs and alcohol.
- Explain why some people benefit significantly from MAT.
- Recognize the common medicines used for the treatment of substance-use disorders and explain how the medicines work.
- Counter the myths associated with MAT.
- Explain the legal issues related to non-compliance with Fair Housing and ADA laws.
- Incorporate best practices for dealing with MAT/MAR in a recovery house.
- Recognize effective policies and procedures for dealing with MAT/MAR in recovery houses.
Lunch and break refreshments are provided. Participants will receive a free course handbook filled with useful information and will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the training day.
Opportunities after the training:
All participants will have the opportunity to participate in up to three technical assistance call ins with the trainer to trouble-shoot MAT policy and procedure development
Sign up for FREE personal medication lock boxes for recovery house residents’ rooms (Limit 5 per agency)
For more information, you may also check out the training website here.