This training is targeted for Residential Class 2, Recovery Housing and Permanent Supported Housing Operators, Managers and Staff.
This workshop is a follow up to the popular Personal Safety and Effective Communication training. It is a 3-hour course designed for the participant to gain a further understanding of what another person is thinking or feeling through Conscious Listening.
Conscious Listening is intentional listening. It involves hearing the words and use of voice and seeing the body language of someone as a method of understanding what they truly mean when they express themselves. It considers listening for what people aren't directly saying, what they might be reluctant to say, or don't realize they are saying.
Conscious Listening also involves asking insightful questions designed to induce the person speaking to share more and to think more deeply about what they are saying. In addition, residents and clients will feel like they are really being heard, which can increase rapport.
The goal of this workshop is to provide Conscious Listening tools for operators, managers, staff and case managers to better understand what's really going on for their residents and clients and to obtain that understanding more quickly.
The objectives for this training include:
- Understand the value and use of Conscious Listening
- Develop skills in Conscious Listening
- Develop skills in asking Conscious Listening questions
Workshop Value:
- What Makes a Good Listener?
- The Art of Conscious Listening: Why Conscious Listening?
- The Thing is Not the Thing: Three Stories in One
- Conscious Listening Tools
- Conscious Listening Practice and Application
Registration is required for this face-to-face/in-person training in order to attend. Please choose only one date to register for this training. If you sign up and find out later that you cannot attend, please cancel your registration as we are limiting the training to 30 attendees per training. If you do not cancel ahead of time and do not show up for the training, your name will be canceled out if you try and sign up for a new date. At that point your name will be added to a waitlist. You will be notified 2 days before if there is room available.
Please choose ONE date to register to obtain your 3 hours of mental health training towards Residential Facility Licensure and Certification Training Requirement 5122-30-20(H).
This training is targeted for Residential Class 2, Recovery Housing and Permanent Supported Housing Operators, Managers and Staff.
This Personal Safety and Effective Communication 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 and increase moral all leading to a reduced number of incidents and increase in staff performance.
The objectives for this training include:
- Increase staff skills in recognizing potentially threatening or dangerous situations.
- Increase staff skills in maintaining productive and safe interactions with residents and others they may have contact with.
- Provide staff with more choices in dealing with challenging situations.
The objectives will be met with the following areas of learning:
- The Personal Safety Template: Awareness, Assessment, Anticipation, Action.
- Approaches to Dealing with Anger: What angry people want and need.
- Effective Communication: It's not what you say- it's what they think you mean when you say it.
- Behavioral Risk Assessment: The earlier we see it, the more options we have.
- Verbal De-escalation Strategies: Getting to safe and productive.
- Transforming the Language: What we say to others; what we say to ourselves.
- Principles of Defusing: Ten to-do's and to-dont's.
- Congruent Communication: Transforming others by changing ourselves.
Registration is required for this face-to-face/in-person training in order to attend. Please choose only one date to register for this training. If you sign up and find out later that you cannot attend, please cancel your registration as we are limiting the training to 30 attendees per training. If you do not cancel ahead of time and do not show up for the training, your name will be canceled out if you try and sign up for a new date. At that point your name will be added to a waitlist. You will be notified 2 days before if there is room available.
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.
Please choose ONE date to register to obtain your 6 hours of mental health training for Residential Facility Class 2 (ACF) licensure and certification.
- 04/21/2020 | Tuesday | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Cincinnati | Hamilton County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, 2350 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45219
- 04/16/2020 | Thursday | 8:45 AM - 3:45 PM | Akron | Summit County Public Health, 1867 West Market Street, Akron, OH 44313
- 03/18/2020 | Wednesday | 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM | Maumee | Toledo Lucas County Public Library - Maumee Branch, 501 River Road Maumee, OH 43537
- 02/13/2020 | Thursday | 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM | North Olmsted | North Olmsted Branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library, North Olmsted, OH 44070
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
Please choose ONE date to register to obtain your 6 hours of mental health training for Residential Facility Class 2 (ACF) licensure and certification.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 6 hours of Continuing Education Units for Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Ohio RN and LPN's. 6 hours of Mental Health training for Licensure and Certification for Residential Facility Class 2 Providers and staff.
OhioMHAS Continuing Education Committee is an approved provider of Continuing Education for RNs and LPNs for the Ohio Board of Nursing and has awarded 6.0 CE contact hours per OBN003 92-2709CO.
OhioMHAS has been approved as a provider of Continuing Professional Education credit by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapist Board. 6.0 CPEs have been awarded to Social Workers per RSX088902-2987CO and to Counselors per RCX068915-2954CO.
Certificates will ONLY be given to attendees who attend the WHOLE training (6 hours of mental health training for licensure and certification; 6 hours CEU for SW, Counselors, RN and LPN). No adjusted/partial continuing education credit hours will be given for this training.
Please note that if you are seeking CEU credits, this training is prioritized for housing providers and their staff. Content will be geared towards these housing providers.
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.
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.
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.
The Ohio Adult Care Facilities Association is excited to announce that we will be offering four more opportunities for home operators and staff to attend the Personal Care Services and Assistance with Self-Administration of Medication training! These trainings 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.
You can register for the trainings by clicking the link below the training you would like to attend. There is a max of 50 attendees per training.
- 02/28/2020 | Friday | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Dublin | The Conference Center at OCLC, 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017
- 03/26/2020 | Thursday | 11:00 AM - 2:00PM | Warrensville Heights | Cleveland Marriott East, 26300 Harvard Road, Warrensville Heights, OH 44122
- 04/17/2020 | Friday | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Toledo | Reynolds Corners Branch Library, 4833 Dorr Street, Toledo, OH 43615
- 05/01/2020 | Friday | 11:00 AM - 2:00 pm | Akron| Summit County Public Health, 1867 West Market Street, Akron, OH 44313