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Training & Workforce Development

The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health provides training in a number of subject areas, and is accredited by a wide variety of professional associations to provide continuing education credits. Trainings currently being offered, dates, times, locations, and continuing education credits are listed in the Training Bulletins below.

Training Bulletins

May 2008 Courses

• 5/01/08 – Performance Evaluation Workshop


• 5/01/08 – Bridges Out of Poverty


• 5/01/08 – Excellent Customer Service


• 5/01/08 – Short Term Therapy for Depression and Anxiety


• 5/06/08 – Employment 101


• 5/07/08 – Strategic Leadership Effectiveness Part 2


• 5/08/08 – On Being a Supervisor: A Process Model of Supervision


• 5/08/08 – Short Term Therapy in the Juvenile Justice System


• 5/12/08 – Child Abuse: Assessment, Reporting & Treatment


• 5/13/08 – Introduction to the Wellness Recovery Action Plan


• 5/14/08 – Offering Suicidal Consumers What They Really Need


• 5/14/08 – The Art of Creating Opportunity: Fifteen Essentials for the Ultimate Employment Toolkit


• 5/14/08 – Expanding Housing Resources For Transitional Age Youth (TAY)


• 5/19/08 – Legal and Ethical Fundamentals for the Advanced Clinician


• 5/20/08 – Motivational Interviewing for Transitional Age Youth (TAY)


• 5/20/08 – Capacity Assessment Tool Training (Core Gifts)


• 5/21/08 – Creating Cultures of Hope in Social Service Organizations Rituals of Resiliency


• 5/22/08 – Sexual Harassment Prevention Training


• 5/23/08 – Non-violent Crisis Intervention


• 5/28/08 – Working with Suicidal Individuals Using the Recovery Model


• 5/28/08 – Advanced Skills in Treating Trauma and Substance Abuse


• 5/28/08 – Coaching and Counseling


• 5/28/08 – Sexual Harassment Prevention Training


• 5/29/08 – Coaching and Counseling


• 5/29/08 – Law, Ethics and Risk Management


• 5/29/08 – Understanding Your Communication Style


• 5/30/08 – Exercise is Medicine for the Brain

June 2008

• 6/2/08 – Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Evaluation & Treatment For Latinos


• 6/10/08 – Common Ground: Recovery Oriented Practice/From Patienthood to Personhood


• 6/10/08 – Expungement


• 6/11/08 – Common Ground: Recovery Oriented Practice/From Patienthood to Personhood


• 6/12/08 – Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for Managers


• 6/13/08 – Do Not Let Your Substance Abuse Get in the Way of Your Recovery!


• 6/13/08 – Law, Ethics and Risk Management


• 6/13/08 – Working with Transitional Age Youth (TAY) and the Family


• 6/16 and 6/17 and 6/18-Second Annual Housing Specialist Training Institute


• 6/16/08 and 6/23/08 – Nonviolent Crisis Intervention


• 6/17/08 – Field Safety – Three Hour “Afternoon Session”


• 6/17/08 – Field Safety - Three Hour “Morning Session”


• 6/17/08 – Motivational Interviewing in the Jail System


• 6/17/08 – WISC-IV Today: Traditional and Process Assessment


• 6/18/08 – Strengths-Based Assessment for Juvenile Justice Clinicians


• 6/19/08 – Managing Trauma: Preventive and Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder


• 6/23/08 – Cultural Competency and the Application of the Recovery Model of the Practice with Asian Americans in Psychological and Emotional Distress


• 6/26/08 – Acculturation and Outreach and Engagement Strategies for Latino Population “Partnering with Faith Based Community”


• 6/27/08 – An Overview of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) For Transitional Age Youth (TAY)


• 6/27/08 – Initial LPS Designation Training and Testing

Training Applications

• DMH Training Policy/Procedure – 106.4 – Request for Funding Outside Training - 08-2007-EC


• General Training Application


• LPS Designation Handbook


• LPS Initial and Renewal Application Dec 2007


• Prelicensure Training Application Form-Revised 09-2007


• Contract Provider Training Application
  

Training Certificates of Completion

• Request for Certificate/Award Letter for Continuing Education

Training Conferences

• Eighth Annual Law Enforcement & Mental Health Conference

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Information

• Determination of Clinic Readiness to Hire a PMHNP


• PMHNP Duty Statement, Standards, and Treatment Protocols

Student Professional Development Program