Trainings

Proudly partnering with Meraki Institute on Learning, the ECR is offering a webinar series for the 2024 fiscal year.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 Cultivating Safety: A foundation for providing effective treatment services

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Wednesday, December 27, 2023 Mindfulness for Human Service Workers 

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Understanding Emotional Dysregulation and Trauma Informed Responses 

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Person Centered Approaches

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Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an interactive 8-hour certification class that introduces participants to risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of their impact, and overviews common treatments.

Specifically, participants learn:

• The potential risk factors and warning signs for a range of mental health problems, including: depression, anxiety/trauma, psychosis and psychotic disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and self-injury,
• An understanding of the prevalence of various mental health disorders in the U.S. and the need for reduced stigma in their communities,
• A 5-step action plan encompassing the skills, resources and knowledge to assess the situation, to select and implement appropriate interventions, and to help the individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional care,
• The appropriate professional, peer, social, and self-help resources available to help someone with a mental health problem.

Similar to CPR, you will become certified as a Mental Health First Aider.

Participants for each training vary, but include hospitals and federally qualified health centers, state policymakers, employers and chambers of commerce, faith communities, school personnel, state police and corrections staff, nursing home staff, mental health authorized support staff, young people, families, and the general public.

For more information on this evidence based class, please visit the Mental Health First Aid website or contact Jan Heidemann.

The MH/DS of the East Central Region is proud to provide Trauma Informed Care Training.

Trauma Informed Care training will cover the impact trauma has on your biology, the effects of trauma in a person’s life, how behavior is a learned defense to protect oneself from their previous trauma, and the foundation of looking at clients from the focus of “What happened to you?” as opposed to “What’s wrong with you?”.

Over the course of 2015, 17 people from various agencies within the Region have attended classes on trauma informed care.  These classes have been conducted by Dr. Robert Macy and Frank Grijalva of the International Trauma Center.  They also provided the TCI training that is used at Tanager Place and the training for the Pediatric Mental Intensive Care centers in Iowa.

The 17 students were recruited from various provider agencies throughout the Region and are available to provide information and instruction in trauma informed care for your staff.  Because the Region financed the training at no cost to the various agencies, the training will be provided to everyone within the Region at no cost.

The training is designed to fit your agency’s needs.  We will work to ensure that the class fits within your time frame.  The amount and depth of the material can be adjusted to match the needs of the attendees and the time allotted.

If you would like to have someone present a class on Trauma Informed Care to your staff, please send the following information to Jan Heidemann.

• The name of your agency or group
• Your name and contact information
• The time and date of the training
• The location of the training
• The availability of computer equipment
• The length of the training
• The approximate number of attendees

LivingWorks ASIST teaches participants to provide a skilled intervention and develop a collaborative safety plan to keep someone safe and alive. For more information or to schedule a training, please contact Jan Heidemann.