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Grief Support Specialist Certificate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This one-of-a-kind, 40-hour, online certificate with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy, peer educators and others. It provides knowledge and skills to create/enhance a professional specialty to support people who have suffered a major loss.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 16, 2024–Dec. 6, 2024
    $1,249 through September 27; $1,449 after
    Group-paced
  • March 12, 2025–May 2, 2025
    $1,249 through February 26; $1,449 after
    Group-paced

Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence: Foundational Application to Practice

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Human Services
This 4-hour, interactive live webinar with instructors from Share Collaborative targets helping professionals, workplace leaders, and others. By exploring the principles of cultural humility we'll enhance your ability to serve increasingly diverse client populations and work with diverse teams.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 7, 2024
    $129
    Live online
  • Jan. 16, 2025
    $129
    Live online

Promoting Women's Leadership in Human Services

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Human Services
This seven-hour live webinar (offered over two 3-hour sessions plus self-study) with instructor Jodi Vandenberg-Daves is for women and allies in human services who want to learn how to develop allyship and gender-inclusive leadership, practice self-advocacy and advocate for gender-fair workplaces.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 8–15, 2024
    $165
    Live online

Enrich Your Practice: Clinical Supervision

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This 2-hour live webinar with instructor Erri Hewitt reviews topics related to clinical supervision in the provision of mental health care including defining competency, setting expectations and enhancing supervisory relationships. The course is designed for health and mental health professionals.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 4, 2024
    $59
    Live online

Disenfranchised Grief

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This one-hour live webinar with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy and others. It explores disenfranchised grief, the impact of minimizing or hiding grief, and shares strategies for coping with grief in personal and professional contexts.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 13, 2024
    $29
    Live online

Dementia: Exploring Grief and Loss

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This two-hour live webinar with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals working with an aging population. It explores the grief of the person with dementia and their caregivers. You'll gain both an understanding of grief and effective strategies that are uniquely associated with dementia.
Upcoming Dates
  • Jan. 10, 2025
    $59
    Live online

Etiology of Suicide and Provider Self Care

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This 6-hour live webinar (offered over two days) with instructor Meghan Henderson targets social workers, therapists and other helping professionals. It discusses common etiology of suicidal behavior, as well as risk assessment, intervention, safety planning and prevention. We also review self-care.
Upcoming Dates
  • Feb. 4–5, 2025
    $169
    Live online

Advancing Motivational Interviewing

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Motivational Interviewing
This 20-hour blended (online and live Zoom sessions) course with instructors Laura Saunders and Melody Cole is for learners who want to strengthen their existing MI skillset. Develop strong skills and outline an implementation plan. Not sure which course is right for you? Check out our MI info page.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 4, 2025–May 6, 2025
    $875
    Live online

Cultural Reverence: Dialogue vs. Debate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Human Services
New: This 4-hour, interactive live webinar with instructors Adesola Oni and Shawn Smith builds on the Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence course. Further explore frameworks for engaging in dialogue, avoiding debate and building skills for healthy discussions regarding culture, identity and more.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 6, 2025
    $129
    Live online

Building Motivational Interviewing Competency Certificate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Motivational Interviewing
This 38-hour blended (online and live Zoom sessions) course with instructors Laura Saunders and Adrienne Allen is for participants wanting to learn or relearn the knowledge and skills necessary to reach MI proficiency. Not sure which MI course is right for you? Check out our MI information page.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 11, 2025–May 13, 2025
    $1,299 The registration fee includes two practice sessions with a simulated client and instructor feedback and access to Canvas, an online learner management system. The course workbook is not included in the fee. Please see the summary for details on where the text can be purchased.
    Live online

Mindfulness for Clinicians: An 8-Week Intensive Course

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This intensive, 20-hour blended course (8 weekly live webinars plus self-study) with instructor Mare Chapman is for clinicians who want to incorporate mindfulness into both their lives and practice. Learn to be more present in your work and develop confidence in applying mindfulness with clients.
Upcoming Dates
  • Not scheduled at this time. See page for program description.

Seriously Playful: Approaching Climate Change with a Lighter Touch

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This new three-hour live webinar (offered over three days) with instructor Casey Meehan is designed for all human services providers looking to reimagine their relationship to climate change. Come explore the basics of play theory for adults and how you can lean into this to find energy and add more into your practice.
Upcoming Dates
  • Not scheduled at this time. See page for program description.