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Training events are the 2nd Friday of every month.
Cost: $10 / CEU hour
Non-Profit discounts available with purchase of learning bundle.
What is included:
Have a specific issues, question, or concern? We offer individual and group consultation services (which count towards CEUs for social workers and counselors). Purchase consultation a la cart or as part of a learning bundle, which includes access to our resource library and training event tickets.
Examples of Consultation Questions:
- How do we engage more effectively with youth?
- Youth are bringing up issues around bullying. How do we address it?
- More youth are coming to my office with issues around family conflict. I’ve tried several interventions and nothing seems to be working.
For more information and to schedule, contact the Professional Development Team at profdev@huck-house.org or by phone 614-294-8097.
Coffee & Consultation Panel Discussion
Topic: Preparing for the New School Year in Uncertain Times
What You’ll Learn:
- Things to consider with the upcoming school year
- Impact of COVID-19 on students
- Understanding of skills & techniques to improve youth experience
- How back to school experiences vary for youth
Coffee & Consultations are designed for participants to ask questions and our panel share their secrets to success. This coffee & consultation focuses on Preparing for the New School Year in Uncertain Times. Panel will focus on sharing skills and techniques they use to prepare youth for this upcoming school year. We will explore things to consider addressing prior to the start of the school year and how these experiences vary.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 1 CEU hour
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 1 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX07190
Target Audience: Mental Health & Education Professionals with beginner to intermediate experience
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Cultural Humility & Ethics in Mental Health Assessments
What You’ll Learn:
- How to ask, identify, and explore a client’s cultural identity
- Learn common considerations, issues, and barriers of different populations
- Enhance the type and format of questions asked about cultural
- Improve overall cultural humility
Participants will explore how cultural humility plays a role in the mental health assessment process from rapport building to gathering needed information. Focus will be on learning about various populations and important information to gather. Practice using cultural appropriate terms and phrases in questions, as well as participate in activities that build your own cultural identity awareness, implicit bias understanding, and understanding the impact of privilege.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 3 CEU Hours Ethics
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 3 CEU hours of ethics; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Mental Health Professionals with beginner to intermediate experience
*Please note information presented in this training was gathered from Huckleberry House staff, youth, as well as evidenced-based and culturally informed material. Our goal with this training is to improve professionals’ knowledge base of a variety of cultures to improve services provided.
Next Live Webinar Date: July 10th, 2020 12 pm – 3 pm – Get my ticket
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Crisis Intervention & De-escalation with Youth
What You’ll Learn:
- Gain knowledge of crisis intervention strategies
- Improve ability to use crisis intervention techniques with youth
- Learn how to de-escalate and reduce crisis with youth
Due to frequent changes in adolescence, youth go through crisis frequently, but often lack the support, tools, or awareness to respond to crisis themselves. Participants will focus on learning effective crisis intervention, de-escalation, and management techniques with youth. Role play techniques used to help decrease future crisis and de-escalate crisis as they occur. Participants will gain information on strength based, motivational interviewing, and other therapeutic models that intersect with crisis intervention.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 2 CEU Hours
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 2 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Mental Health Professionals, Direct Service Staff, and Educational professionals with beginner to intermediate experience
Next Live Webinar Date: August 14th, 2020 1 pm – 3 pm – Get my ticket
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Goal setting with Youth
What You’ll Learn:
- Gain knowledge on youth development
- Improve ability to engage with youth and their support systems
- Set effective goals with youth
This trainings is a free introductory course. In the goal setting training, we focus on how to set quality goals with youth. We cover their influences and how practitioners can engage in a youth-informed way. Participants are also given skills and techniques to use during the goal setting process for engaging with youth, parents, and other support systems. Participants are also given information on Huckleberry House and services.
Clock Hours: 1 CEU Hours
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 1 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, and Direct Service staff with beginner to intermediate experience
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Lethality Assessments with Adolescents
What You’ll Learn:
- Participants will have increased confidence when screening and assessing adolescents with lethality concerns, identifying elements unique to this age group.
- Participants will be able to identify WHEN to complete a lethality assessment
- Participants will gain understanding of all elements of lethality assessment and be able to successfully IMPLEMENT with adolescents.
- Participants will effectively use assessment to guide safety planning with adolescents and the caregivers.
Participants will learn the keys needed to screen, assess, and engage with adolescents during lethality assessments. Using “model, skill, or guide”, participants will be able to gauge an adolescent’s risk level, helping create more effective safety plans. To help participants transfer skills from workshop to practice, this workshop will include adolescent focused case studies and scenarios.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 2 CEU Hours / Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 2 CEU Hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Mental Health professionals with beginner to intermediate experience
*Not available for private group trainings
Guest presenter: Tishia Gunton, MSW, LISW-S
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Get My Ticket – Live Webinar: September 14th 2 pm – 4 pm
Engaging Teens Around Sexuality
What You’ll Learn:
- To define and expand knowledge of sexuality and sexual development from birth to young adulthood, including identification of what behaviors are clinically significant.
- To expand knowledge of the intersections of sexuality and social work to understand why sexuality must be addressed in order to treat, or work with, the whole individual and uphold
ethical guidelines set forth by the NASW Code of Ethics. - Define “sex positive” within social work and society at large. Apply sex positive principles to current practice.
Sexuality is an integral part of life and overall health at any age. Too often, social work ignores its impact on clients, especially adolescents. This program will explore adolescent sexuality and development. This workshop aims to give tools and language for all practitioners to feel confident assessing sexual health of clients and to provide a starting point for treatment. There are additional considerations when working with adolescents and parents regarding sexuality. This program operates from a sex positive and body positive lens..
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 2 CEU Hours / Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 2 CEU Hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Mental Health professionals with beginner to intermediate experience
*Not available for private group trainings
Guest presenter: Abigail Hust, MSW, LISW-S
Get My Ticket – Next Live Webinar Date: July 24th 9 am – 11 am
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Mental Health 101: Youth Focus
What You’ll Learn:
- Gain knowledge on youth development
- Improve ability to engage with youth and their support systems
- Identify mental health needs
- Identify housing needs
This training focuses on the unique behavioral, mental health, and risk factors that youth face. Participants will learn how to spot signs of mental health, suicide, and other risk factors for youth. As well as, gain a detailed understanding of how mental health and adolescent development impact a youth’s behavior.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 1 CEU Hours
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 1 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, and Direct Service staff with beginner to intermediate experience
Get My Ticket — Next training date May 18th 11 am – 12:15 pm
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Teen Dating Violence: 10 Must Knows
What You’ll Learn:
- Gain understanding of teen dating violence
- Learn to identify unhealthy teen romantic relationships
- Implement key interventions and tools to improve interactions with teens
Teen brains are wired for connection, yet, many find themselves trapped in unhealthy or violent relationships. It’s important to help teens in violent relationships build healthy connections and gain a sense of control over their life trajectory. In this training, learn 10 interventions and techniques that address unhealthy relationships with adolescent clients. Learn key warning signs that indicate a teen may be in a violent relationship. Learn how to evaluate a teen’s insight and understanding of their relationship, as well as learn effective interventions that build a teen’s sense of security within healthy relationships. Gain insight into addressing safety concerns within mandated reporting guidelines, confidentiality, and parent’s expectations. Participants will leave with key information on addressing violent teen relationships and practice utilizing skills.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 1 CEU Hours
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 1 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, with beginner experience or with more experience but new to teen dating violence
Get your Ticket – Next Training May 11th 11 am – 12:15 pm
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Trauma Informed Care: Changing the Way We Think
What You’ll Learn:
- How to define, describe, and identify trauma in clients
- Identify trauma responses, triggers, and reactions
- How to respond to clients when triggered
- Impact of secondary trauma and the importance of self-care
This training provides education on evidenced based trauma informed care models, effects of trauma, and how to identify trauma histories in adolescents and young adult clients. Participants will practice various interventions to use with clients, learn how to identify if a client is within their window of tolerance, how to recognize trauma related symptoms, and how to engage with clients when they are experiencing a crisis or traumatic response. Participants will also gain education on signs of secondary trauma, stressors that contribute to secondary trauma, and how to reduce or prevent secondary trauma.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 2 CEU Hours
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 2 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, and Direct Service Staff with beginner to intermediate experience
Get My Ticket – Next Live Webinar Date: May 7th, 4 pm – 6 pm
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Helping Youth in Unhealthy Relationships
What You’ll Learn:
- Identify unhealthy youth relationships
- Improve techniques to respond to unhealthy youth relationships
- Prevent youth relationships from becoming unhealthy or violent
This training focuses on the various forms and types of unhealthy romantic relationships. Participants will learn the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships for youth, as well as the difference between teen dating violence, intimate partner violence, domestic violence, and mutual violence. Gain needed skills to identify, assess, and safety plan with clients in unhealthy relationships. Enhance your ability to engage with clients through youth specific case studies, ethical discussion making prompts, and practice using youth informed language. Participants will also gain an overview of the various systems presented to youth in unhealthy relationships and how this impacts mental health work.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 3 CEU Hours
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 3 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, with beginner experience or with more experience but new to teen dating violence
Get My Ticket – June 12th 9 am – Noon
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Essentials for Working with Teens
What You’ll Learn:
- Gain knowledge on teen development
- Gain techniques and tools to increase positive interactions with teens
- Improve how comfortable you feel working with teens
Participants will review adolescent development, with an emphasis on brain development and factors that influence development trajectory. Participants will explore key communication, rapport building, and crisis intervention skills. Each skill taught will be practiced through case studies and team discussion activities.
Important Information:
Clock Hours: 3 CEU Hours
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 3 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, with beginner to advanced experience
Get my Ticket – Next Training Date: June 3rd 5 pm – 8 pm
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Working with Young Adults: Impact from Trauma, Housing Instability, & Survival Behaviors
What You’ll Learn:
- Human development from adolescence to adulthood
- Communication, Rapport Building, and Empathy Based skills
- Understand influences on behavior and determine the root trigger
- Improve response to resistance and negative behaviors
This training educates participants on key skills and intervention techniques to use when working with young adults. The course focuses on the impact of trauma and homelessness on human brain development, as well as building effective intervention skills to use with this population. Course includes in depth review of human development and how development impacts behavior during young adulthood. As well as, how to identify development, survival, or trauma related behaviors in clients. Participants will engage in empathy and awareness building activities to explore how housing insecurity, underdeveloped communication skills, and survival behaviors impact an individual’s ability to thrive. Participants are given 30 different communication, rapport building, and engagement focused skills.
Important Information:
Clock Hours for Clinically Focused Training: 4 hours, 4 CEUs
Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for 4 CEU hours; approved for Social Workers and Counselors. Provider # RSX031901, RCX071902
*2 hour curriculum available for non-clinical professionals
Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, and Direct Service Staff with beginner to intermediate experience
Get your ticket — Next Training Date: May 12th, 12 pm – 4 pm
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What is a learning bundle?
Purchase a learning bundle and have our trainers come to you or purchase a learning bundle and use the flexibility to send staff to training events throughout the year. With private group training events, you pick who attends and get customized training for your staff or co-workers.
What’s Included?
- CEUs for you and other licensed professionals*
- Access to our materials and handouts
- You pick the curriculum
- Customize scenarios to fit your needs
- Invitation to our Facebook Group
- Access to members only events
- Add consultation hours for you or your staff
How do I sign up?
Email the Professional Development team with the name of the curriculum or topic you’d like training on. Our staff will work with you to schedule, plan, and host a productive event.
Contact us at profdev@huck-house.org or 614-294-8097
Get access to worksheets, workbooks, guides, and more helpful materials by checking out our resource library store.
People say we’re pretty great…
“Role playing helped the information stick.”
“It was helpful learning to understand why young adults might response a certain way and what baggage they bring and how we can better respond to them.”
“The most helpful part was how devoted they were to conveying the information.”
“The most helpful part was learning practical strategies for difficult situations.”
“It was helpful hearing fresh ideas for working with young adults.”
“Excellent materials.”
“Great presentation”
“I can’t wait to share what I learned.”
“It was helpful that they provided multiple ways to learn information.”
What are the benefits of Huckleberry House training?
Experience:
Huckleberry House has over 50 years experience working with teens, young adults, and their families. The skills in our trainings are based on evidence based practices, trauma informed care, and 50 years of providing effective care to youth. Don’t just take our word for it, read what others are saying about us.
Support:
Get support throughout your career. When you attend, you gain access to Worksheets, Exclusive discounts, Peer support, Consultation Hours, Networking, CEUs*, and so much more.
Practice:
Skill building starts with understanding the foundation of why skills are effective, but the real trick to being an expert is practice. Every training event includes a practice component with youth focused case studies.
Research shows professional development reduces work related stress, turn over, and dissatisfaction.
While also improving productivity, quality of services, and morale.
Our training focus on what we do best: working with youth and their families.
About us
Huckleberry House works with Central Ohio’s youth and families who are dealing with some of the most difficult problems imaginable. Issues like abuse, violence, neglect, poverty, and homelessness. No matter how hopeless the situation may seem, we offer proven programs and committed people who know how to help young people and families take control of their lives. “From our house to yours” we focus on training professionals, how to engage with adolescents and young adults. When you attend our trainings, you gain access to effective skills, tools, and information that works. Our goal is for all adolescents and young adults in Ohio to get the best possible services. This starts with helping professionals have the tools they need.
Meet our Professional Development Coordinator
Leslie Scott started the Huckleberry House Professional Development program in 2019, establishing herself as a skilled trainer and Huckleberry House as experts in adolescent – young adult care. Leslie is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) through the SOH, CSWMFTB and has earned her Certified Trauma Practitioner – Clinical (CTP-C) certification. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Social Work (BSSW) from the Ohio State University and her Master of Science in Social Administration (MSSA) from Case Western Reserve University. Leslie has six years’ experience working in nonprofits in various roles, including crisis counselor, therapist, clinical assessor, and family advocate. Leslie has worked at Huckleberry House since 2016, in both the crisis shelter and the counseling center.
Contact the Professional Development Team
Contact us at profdev@huck-house.org or 614-294-8097.
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