Live Trainings

The Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) tool guides the home visitor in assisting clients with both immediate feedback on potentially harmful behavior and a longer-term solution through referral to additional treatment or resources beyond what the home visitor can provide. This training explains the use of the tool and teaches how best to do a brief intervention. It also covers how to use screening tools, including Virginia’s Behavioral Health Risks Screening Tool for Women of Childbearing Age. Participants will describe the reasons why home visitors should screen women for substance use, intimate partner violence, and mental health concerns. They will also practice tips and techniques that can be used when screening as well as learn how to provide a “brief intervention.”

Prerequisite: Why Screen (Institute)

This training is intended for staff who maintain a caseload and have at least 9 months of experience in the field, or for supervisors.

This Motivational Interviewing introductory workshop will offer a basic level of information on the fundamental spirit, principles, and methods of Motivational Interviewing. The format of the workshop will be interactive in nature, and participants will have the opportunity to directly observe, experience, and practice basic MI skills.

Prerequisite: None

This training is intended for staff who maintain a caseload and have at least 6 months of experience in the field, or for supervisors.

The Adult Mental Health Learning Lab is designed to further support professional development for family support professionals in working with families who are experiencing perinatal depression and/or other mental health challenges. This training will provide home visitors and home visiting supervisors with a review of adult mental health content, as well as information on active listening, observing for mental health challenges, the importance and role of screening, and identifying and responding to mental health crises.

Prerequisites: Adult Mental Health Part One and Adult Mental Health Part Two: Perinatal Depression (Institute)

This training is intended for staff who maintain a caseload and have at least 9 months of experience in the field, or for supervisors.

Healthy Outcomes: Intimate Partner Violence and Family Resilience highlights our evidence-based intervention, CUES. CUES is an acronym that stands for the steps of the intervention: Confidentiality, Universal Education, Empowerment and Support. This universal education approach is not disclosure-driven and thus ensures that all clients receive information on healthy and unhealthy relationships and how it can impact health, regardless of whether a client indicates that they are experiencing violence. This is an important way to promote health equity—CUES also prompts providers to share their power by not requiring disclosure for the patient to receive these educational brochures that have safer planning and information on domestic hotlines and chat lines for support.

Prerequisite: None

This training is intended for staff who maintain a caseload and have at least 9 months of experience in the field, or supervisors.

This interactive training will teach home visitors best practices for working with pregnant and parenting adolescents. They will explore their own values, beliefs and biases about serving pregnant and parenting teens and will identify ways to use this information to improve home visiting services. Participants will learn the differences between teen and adult parenting and learn to identify and respond to mental health issues in teens. The training also covers risk and protective factors, basics of adolescent development and learning styles.

Prerequisite: None

This training is intended for staff who maintain a caseload and have at least 3 months of experience in the field, or for supervisors.

Mothers and Babies is an evidence-based program that has been highlighted as one of the most effective interventions for the prevention of postpartum depression and has a proven record of success. It is guided by cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment theory, and is provided by home visitors as an enhancement to the home visiting services already provided in the home. Additionally, there is an option to provide this enhancement as a group intervention rather than one-on-one in the home. Mothers & Babies is a great resource for parents experiencing mild to moderate depression. M & B equips staff with a curriculum and tools to support mothers experiencing depression AND it counts as a completed referral for MIECHV programs.

Prerequisites: Mothers & Babies Introductory (Institute) and Leaning In: Maternal & Infant Mental Health (Institute)

This training is intended for staff who maintain a caseload and have at least 3 months of experience in the field, or for supervisors.

The Trauma Learning Lab is designed to further support professional development for family support professionals in working with families who are experiencing trauma currently or in the past. This virtually facilitated training event can be attended after individuals have completed the 1) Historical Trauma and 2) Leaning In: Trauma and Resilience trainings online through the Institute.

This training will provide home visitors and home visiting supervisors with a review of trauma and resilience, as well as information on trauma informed care, the importance and impact of trauma on the home visitor, and strategies for engaging families who have past or current trauma experiences. Individuals who attend the learning lab are encouraged to bring their own case scenarios for use in the activities.

Prerequisite: Leaning In: Trauma and Resilience (Institute)

This training is intended for staff who maintain a caseload and have been in their position for at least 12 months, or for supervisors.