Below are the identified required trainings that all mobile crisis team members and service providers complete prior to receiving approval to implement the new benefit. Please review the updated list of required trainings, which also includes a list of recommended trainings.
Upon completion of the recorded training, please email mobilecrisisinfo@cars-rp.org with the subject line: Certificate of Completion. If you are requesting multiple certificates, you can include the training names and dates completed in the body of the email.
The first of the required core trainings. This 3.5-hour training shares best practices for mobile crisis assessment. It provides an overview and orientation to a transformed mobile crisis assessment that prioritizes a person-centered, brief intervention, and resolution-focused approach.
Trauma Informed Care Training: How our Brains Respond to Stress and Trauma
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Eve Fitch and Arianna Mellinger
This 3-hour core training shares trauma-informed care concepts that equip mobile crisis responders to understand how trauma and stress impact those we serve, as well as the impact to our immediate response to crisis. An understanding of trauma-informed care supports all mobile crisis team members, including clinicians, peers, community health workers, and others to provide person-centered and resolution-focused crisis services.
Harm Reduction Strategies Training
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Jennifer Hodgson and Arianna Mellinger
This 3-hour core training is grounded in the foundational principles of harm reduction with special attention to historical learning, intersectionality, and cultural responsiveness, along with the practical implementation of harm reduction strategies to mitigate risk associated with substance use and prevent the spread of infectious disease. The training will focus on evidence-based and best practice strategies for supporting individuals with co-occurring disorders and equipping them with life-saving tools and information to create positive change in their lives.
Collaborative, Culturally Responsive Crisis Safety Planning
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Joyce P. Chu, PhD; Christopher M. Weaver, PhD; Avery Belyeu, MDiv
Collaborative Crisis Safety Planning can be instrumental to creating psychological safety for individuals in crisis served by mobile crisis teams. When approached with the principles of strengths, empowerment, collaboration, person/family-centeredness, and cultural responsiveness, crisis safety plans can support individuals to achieve self-driven resolution of the crisis. This training will cover foundational knowledge and interactive practice in crisis safety planning and will provide evidence-based guidance for integrating critical cultural considerations throughout all aspects of the safety planning process. This training aims to equip all qualified community mobile crisis team providers (including peers, community health workers, first responders, and clinicians) with the skills needed to deliver effective, stabilizing crisis safety planning interventions for culturally diverse community members across the State of California.
Introduction to Culturally Responsive Crisis Care in Diverse Communities
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Joshua Severns, LCSW, ACADC; Anitra Warrior, PhD; and Holly Echo-Hawk, MSc
This training will provide mobile crisis team members with knowledge and practical skills on culturally responsive intervention and de-escalation skills with community members from a wide range of cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, racial and ethnic identities, gender identities, and abilities, etc.
Co-Occuring Disorders/Responding to Substance Use Disorder Crises
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Arianna Mellinger; Jennifer Hodgson, PhD, LMFT; Joshua Severns, LCSW, ACADC
Responding to crises where an individual has a co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) requires a specialized set of knowledge, skills, and experience. This training is designed to support mobile crisis team members in recognizing when a person is struggling with co-occurring disorders, to adopt evidence-based protocols for guiding the team’s response, and to implement evidence-based practice strategies for delivering safe and high-quality person-centered care.
Introduction to Culturally Responsive Crisis Care for Tribal and Urban Indian People
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Holly Echo-Hawk, MSc; Joshua Severns, LCSW, ACADC; and Anitra Warrior, PhD
This training supports mobile crisis teams and supervisors to employ culturally responsive interventions when working with Tribal and Urban Indian people across California. Participants will increase their knowledge of culturally responsive crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques and practice applying this knowledge through case study scenarios.
Crisis Intervention and De-escalation Strategies
Friday, September 22, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Sydney Bice, Person with Lived Experience; Angela Castellanos, LCSW; and Kappy Madenwald, MSW, LISW-S
This training introduces crisis intervention and de-escalation strategies in the context of the strength-based, person-centered, resolution-focused transformation of care for mobile crisis response in California.
Crisis Response Strategies for Adult Individuals with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (I/DD)
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Kristin Dempsey, Ed.D, LMFT, LPCC
Mobile crisis teams are effective in supporting individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) in crisis. Well-prepared and sensitive crisis responders can make all the difference for individuals and families who are managing their own distress or their loved one’s crisis. In this training, we will discuss how crises manifest in the lives of individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Crisis Response Strategies for Children, Youth, and Families, Including Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD)
Friday, September 29, 2023
Training | Presenter(s): Kristin Dempsey, Ed.D, LMFT, LPCC
Mobile crisis teams effectively support youth and their family members during times of crisis; well-prepared and sensitive mobile crisis teams can make all the difference for individuals, youth, and families managing their own distress or their loved one’s crisis. In this training, participants will discuss how crises manifest in the lives of children and youth, including youth with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD), and consider how mobile crisis teams can effectively assess crises from a culturally responsive lens.