Competencies are also never limited to what you find here. If you find a training class or course that will further your career goals, please submit a proposal. It should substantially align with your current career plan goals and objectives, and if it does, we will work with you to define the competencies you will obtain from it.
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Annual Refresher Training
After completion of the initial training period, all staff who provide client services are asked to complete refresher training annually in the topics listed in the table below. The purpose of these refreshers is not that you put the policies and procedure to memory, rather these brief trainings designed with the intention of:
re-familiarizing you with the guide so that you can more easily find answers to questions when you have them, and
to point out and changes that have been made since your last refresher.
You will take a quiz (or complete a return demonstration) for each of these refreshers. These quizzes are open book. To complete the training:
Open the guide link to the policy below. Read through it.
In an second browser tab, log in to Tabs and navigate to Annual Training, then open the quiz with the topic name below.
Find the answers to the quiz quesions in the guide.
Tap to score your quiz. Once you achieve a passing score, you may approve the quiz yourself.
Document your time using the service type: "Annual Required Training" and list in the note which training you completed. (These trainings are designed to be completed in 30 minutes or less.)
Employees in the Training Period
New employees monthly trainings scheduled in those first four months (months that overlap with the 90-day traning periond, but should begin immediatley completing referesher training in the first month following completion of 90 days of employment.
Month
Topic
Guide References
January
Risk Assessment, Crisis, and Relapse Prevention Planning
Meeting core competencies (general and for the specific services you provide - most service-specific competencies still need more definitions in other service-specific parts of this guide).
This section desribes available Advanced competency-based training. These might apply to one or more services, and the applicable services will be listed in the header information for each.
Advanced training courses are available for any staff member in any position who has successfully completed their orientation/probationary training requirements and is in good standing (not currently working under a Performance Intervention Plan).
Competencies based on completion of training will be awarded a commenurate pay increase at the start of the next quarter to anyone who completes the training and return demonstration, and who is meeting core at the time of completion.
Tap on the plus sign to view detailed information for the training. To register tap ">> Sign me up!" in the specific course. If the course date and time is not yet listed, you will be registered and recieve specific information in a follow-up email.
*Your request to attend the training must be approved by your Program Manager.
If no prerequisite is identifief for a specific training, there is none. Where identified, please note.
Quarter 2-3 2024 Advanced Training Courses
More are coming soon...
Suicide Risk Assessment
Instructor: Matylin Grutzmacher
Date/Time: 5/22 @ 12:30PM
Applicable Services: All
Total Potential Competences: 10
Estimated Class Time: 1 hour
Return Demonstration: Tabs Quiz
Instructor Description: Suicide. A devastating word to hear in your personal and professional life. How do you address this topic? How do you work with a client who is suicidal? Learn how to assess and intervene when a client has either suicidal ideation or intent using a standardized assessment. Learn the types of resources available to clients and when you should seek additional support from your supervisor. This training will teach you how to address suicide with your client population.
Motivational Interviewing 4
Instructor: Brian Hammers
Date/Time: 5/22 @ 12:30PM and 5/15 8:00AM
Applicable Services: All
Total Potential Competences: 10
Estimated Class Time: 1 hour
Return Demonstration
The zoom session for that will be 5/13 from 12-2:30 and the in person session will be 5/15 from 8am-10:30am.
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