Training Providers and Learning Opportunities
Trainings are identified as follows:        No Cost                There is a Fee                Unknown/Varies-Depending on Training
***Note that this may change at any time. So, please, let me know if there is a change to any of these trainings.

Mental Health Related:

  • ADA-Federal website for the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Reaching Out to Customers with Disabilities for Businesses is an online, learn at your own pace training.

iTrainings-Various topics in the field of addictions treatment and recovery services. Each month, a different Regional
Center will present information and resources on topics ranging from healthcare reform to implementing specific
evidence-based practices. [These are scheduled each month]
Online learning web portal-top-notch continuing education courses for the addiction treatment and recovery services
field.

  • Advocacy Unlimited (Forum) helps countless persons with, or in recovery from, psychiatric disabilities or co-occurring
    disorders and their families Our mission is to improve the quality of their lives by providing comprehensive education and
    training in recovery and advocacy skills for persons in recovery. Online Courses are open to all website visitors and offered
    at no cost. Certificate only if you register.
Self-Study/Online Courses include: Comprehensive Overview of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA); A Guide to
Preparing and Giving Legislative Testimony; An Introduction to Developing Cultural Competency-NEW
Consumer trainings for people working on their recovery…Wellness and Recovery Training from Network of Care

Keeping Families and Children in Mind: COPMI Mental Health Worker Education Resource has been developed for
mental health workers and other allied workers who support parents who experience mental illness and their families.

  • Autism Education Network includes free information about special education rights as well as information about treatment
    options and education methods. e-Training education center has information for families, educators and professionals.
Various online presentations, specific to DD and Autism.

  • Homelessness Resource Center at SAMHSA seeks to improve the lives of people affected by homelessness who have mental health conditions, substance use issues, and histories of trauma.
Various online trainings. (CE's provided for some trainings)

  • Key Consumer Organization offers self-help for persons with mental or emotional illness to help each other through emotional support, advocacy and support groups. Contact 317-205-2500 or 800-933-5397
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), by Mary Ellen Copeland, shifts the focus in mental health care from
'symptom control' to prevention and recovery. By using self-help skills and strategies that complement other
treatment scenarios, they are achieving levels of wellness, stability, and recovery they always hoped were possible.

  • LaraSig-The most accessible online source to enhance clinical skills and knowledge! Registration and the courses are free
    for medical, residents, and health professionals.
Ending Suicide for Professionals Program-Introduction to Suicide: Facts, Figures, and Theories and Identification of
Risk and Protective Factors in Suicide
Ending Suicide for Secondary Educators Program-Introduction to Suicide: Facts, Figures, and Theories and
Identification of Risk and Protective Factors in Suicide

Creating Intentional Peer Supports (Shery Mead-Presentation)
Peer Employment Training - Introduction (Recovery Innovations-Presentation)
Peer Employment Training - Recovery (Recovery Innovations-Presentation)
Peer Employment Training - Part Three (Recovery Innovations-Presentation)
Understanding the Effects of Trauma (Webinar)
Reducing Youth Suicide Through Community Collaboration (Webinar) Handout1     Handout2
Ticket to Work and the Work Incentives Improvement Act (Webinar) Handout1  Handout2  Handout3  Handout4
Center for Mental Health Services Campaign for Mental Health Recovery -- An Overview


  • NAMI Indiana consists of families, consumers, and professionals who are dedicated to helping families through a network
    of support, education, advocacy, and promotion of research. Contact 317-925-9399 or 800-677-6442
Various Trainings-NAMI offers various trainings to all individuals from family members and consumers to attorneys
and law enforcement.
NAMI Basics Course-Education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with
mental illnesses.
Family to Family-12-week course for family caregivers of individuals with severe mental illnesses.
Peer-to-Peer Education Program is a 9-week course on recovery for any person with serious mental illness who is
interested in establishing and maintaining wellness.

  • National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services
    for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States. (CE's provided)
Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma-Online courses include: Schools and Trauma Speaker Series,
Partnering with Youth and Families in Trauma Settings Speaker Series, Young Children and Trauma: Service System
Collaborations Speaker Series, Terrorism, Disaster and Children Speaker Series, Culture and Trauma Speaker Series,
Part III Child Sexual Abuse Webinars, Child Traumatic Grief Speaker Series, Complex Trauma Speaker Series, Culture
and Trauma Speaker Series Part I & II, Master Speaker Series Service Systems Speaker Series.  

  • National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at the US Dept of Veteran Affairs is the center of excellence for
    research and education on the prevention, understanding, and treatment of PTSD. The National Center has emerged as
    the world's leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD. Its vision is to be the foremost leader in
    information on PTSD and trauma.
PTSD 101 is an online web-based curriculum that offers courses related to PTSD and trauma. The goal is to enhance
practitioner knowledge of trauma and its treatment. Each course varies in length, but all take around an hour to
complete. CE credits are available for most PTSD 101 courses.

  • National Center for Suicide Prevention Training mission is to provide educational resources to help public officials, service
    providers, and community-based coalitions develop effective suicide prevention programs and policies. (CE's provided)
Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide Data
Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention
Youth suicide prevention: An introduction to gatekeeping
The Research Evidence for Suicide as a Preventable Public Health Problem
TBD-What Works? A Review of Evaluations of Youth Suicide Prevention Interventions

Helping Child Welfare Workers Support Families with Substance Use, Mental, and Co-Occurring Disorders Training
Package was developed to educate child welfare professionals about substance abuse and mental health disorders
among families involved in the child welfare system.

Webinars-Recordings & Presentations: Instruments to Measure Recovery from Mental Illness; Healthcare Reform:
Implications for Behavioral Health Providers; Mental Health First Aid for Suicide Prevention; Understanding Psychosis;
Managing Addiction as a Chronic Condition; and many more.

Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum is a tool to help teach self-advocacy skills to mental health consumers. By
helping consumers learn to advocate for themselves, you help them to take control over their own recovery and to
assert their rights.

Various Educational Webcasts relating to psychiatric Advance Directives

  • Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) from the DOJ is committed to enhancing the Nation’s capacity to assist crime victims and to providing leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime.
Victim Assistance Training (VAT) Online is a basic victim advocacy web-based training program that offers victim
services providers and allied professionals the opportunity to acquire the basic skills and knowledge they need to
better assist victims of crime.
Identity Theft Victim Assistance Online Training: Supporting Victims' Financial and Emotional Recovery
Downloadable training materials.

  • Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program is administered by CMS and are for people with serious mental illness, including those with co-occurring substance use disorders, who are experiencing homelessness or
    at risk of becoming homeless. PATH services include community-based outreach, mental health, substance abuse, case
    management and other support services, as well as a limited set of housing services.
Various online webcasts and presentations.

  • Promoting Healthy Mental Development-Coming Soon!  This course will train in (1) assessing and promote social, emotional, developmental, and behavioral health; (2) identifying mental health concerns early; and (3) intervening early.

Peer Support e-course (CE's): Peer Specialists 101: Research, Core Competencies and Ethics, The Five Stages in
Recovery and the role of Peer Specialists, Using Your Recovery Story and Effective Supervision of Peer Specialists.
Recovery E-Courses (No CE's/Spanish): Recovery is Real, Self-determination Fuels Recovery, The Language of
Recovery, Planning that Promotes Recovery, Let's Start Living Large and The Resiliency Factor.
Resiliency E-courses (No CE's/Spanish): Getting Past the Tough Stuff, The Power of Resiliency, Growing Your
Resiliency, Recapping Resiliency

STRYVE Online Training includes a three-part training series that provides the foundation for understanding what
youth violence is and how to prevent it.



Education and Healthcare Training:

  • About Special Kids (ASK) “Parent to Parent” organization that works throughout the state of Indiana to answer questions
    and provide support, information and resources. Contact 317-257-8683 for more information
Roadmap to Special Education: Laws and Process- This workshop, combining the Article 7 and IEP training, is all day
training that offers basic information about special education laws and regulations for Indiana children ages 3-21. It
also introduces recent changes in federal law that will impact Indiana’s state regulations. In addition, this training will
provide information on how to prepare for a case conference and write an IEP.
Online Trainings: Transition, Discipline, Non-public schools and Procedural safeguards. Reviews Article 7; participants
must have a copy of Article 7 at the time of training.

  • Indiana Partnerships Center (IPC) hosts the Indiana Parent Resource Center-Helps families get involved in their children’s
    learning. Contact 866-391-1039  
No Child Left Behind and You-Provides a greater understanding of the No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana Public Law
221 and how both of these pieces of legislation affect their schools.

  • Indiana Resource Center for Families with Special Needs (InSource) is the State Parent Training and Information Center
    and provides training and information to parents of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and to people
    who work with parents to enable them to participate more fully and effectively with professionals in meeting the
    educational needs of their children with disabilities. Contact 800-332-4433 for more information
Understanding Article 7: Indiana’s Special Education Process-Understanding the IEP process is an important part of
learning how to advocate for your child with special needs.  This workshop is designed for parents of children in
special education or that might need special education. Come and gain a working knowledge of special education
laws, including your role in the development of an appropriate education program (IEP) and how to be an effective
partner with the school team in the process.

World of Medicare-Fundamentals of the Medicare Program
Other online Medicare Trainings-includes: Fraud, Billing, Forms, HIPAA, Services.

  • Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) was established by DOE-OSEP to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.
Various manuals, powerpoint presentations and guides organized by coaches/trainers, students, parents, staff and
new teams.


Disability-Related/Non-Mental Health:

  • About Special Kids (ASK) is a “Parent to Parent” organization that works throughout the state of Indiana to answer
    questions and provide support, information and resources. Contact 317-257-8683 for more information.
Public Health Insurance: What You Don’t Know Can Cost You- This full day training provides parents and
professionals with information about public health insurance programs that can be accessed by families caring for
children with special needs. It includes information on Medicaid, Medicaid Disability, Medicaid Waivers, Children’s
Special Healthcare Services, Hoosier Healthwise and SSI (Supplemental Security Income).

  • Choose Respect is an initiative that helps teens form healthy relationships to prevent dating violence before it starts. This
    national effort helps parents, caregivers, older teens, educators, and other caring adults motivate teens to challenge
    harmful beliefs about dating violence and take steps to form healthy and respectful relationships.
Dating Matters is a free 60-minute, online training designed to help educators, youth-serving organizations, and
others working with teens understand the risk factors and warning signs associated with teen dating violence.

Person Centered Planning involves the development of a "toolbox" of methods and resources that enable people
with disability labels to choose their own pathways to success; the planners simply help them to figure out where
they want to go and how best to get there. The current slate of offerings has been designed to introduce the user
to a different set of tools for use in person-centered planning.

GCFLearnFree provides free, interactive online programs and is supported by the Goodwill Community Foundation whose
mission is "to create and provide education, employment, and life enrichment opportunities for people who desire to
improve the quality of their lives". Create and provide quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who
wants to improve the technology, literacy, and math skills necessary for them to be successful in both work and life.
(CEU's provided; Site is also available in Spanish)
Math and Money: Money Basics, Math Basics, Tax Credits, Food, Money/Financial Skills, Work.
Everyday Life: (Objectives) EDL project uses interactive, situation-based lessons to teach functional literacy skills.
Area's include: Food, Money, Work, Shopping, Maps, Plans & Schedules, Bills and Budgeting, Word Match.
Computer Basics-Getting Started: Windows, Internet 101, Internet Explorer 8, Facebook 101, Email Basics, Internet
Safety, Internet Safety for Kids, Mozilla Firefox.
Office Software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Office, OpenOffice.org, Outlook 2003, Publisher 2003, Word 2010.
Work and Career: Career Planning, Resume Writing, Interviewing Skills, Career Development, Job Skills, Cover
Letters, Money Basics, The Workplace.
Reading Program is to help adults at all levels become more proficient readers. The lessons are self-paced and self-
directed utilizing various learning tools featuring videos and games.
HIV Workbook.

Teaching Assistive Technology (AT) Curriculum (online) provides an introduction to the application of technology to
improve human function. It is directed at those working with children and youth, but the principles are applicable for
all age groups.

  • Governor’s Planning Council for People with Disabilities (GPCPD) is an independent state agency that facilitates change.
    Our mission is to promote public policy which leads to the independence, productivity and inclusion of people with
    disabilities in all aspects of society. Contact 317-232-7770 for more information
Partners in Policymaking  Every other year the Partners in Policymaking Academy offers eight weekends of intensive
training to a new class of 35 people with disabilities and family members. Partners is designed to educate
participants to be active partners with those who make policy. Partners curriculum utilizes national and state
presenters and promotes the values of integration/ inclusion. Partners believe that all people with disabilities should
be respected and contributing members of their communities.

  • Indiana Family-to-Family (F2F) brings together parents of young children with disabilities, developmental delays or special
    health care needs so they can share their knowledge, concerns, and experiences with each other. Contact 800-825-4733
Various Online Trainings.

  • Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (IIDC) mission is to work with communities to welcome, value, and support the meaningful participation of people of all ages and abilities through research, education and service. Contact 812-855-
    6508
Calendar of Events.

  • Indiana Youth Institute (IYI) promotes the healthy development of children and youth by serving the institutions and people of Indiana who work on their behalf.
Calendar of Events.

  • National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.
Cultural Competence Curricula Enhancement Module Series goal of the series is to increase the capacity of programs
to incorporate principles and practices of cultural and linguistic competence into all aspects of their training.

Partners in Policymaking was created to teach parents and self-advocates the power of advocacy to change the way
people with disabilities are supported, viewed, taught, live and work. Since 1987, Partners programs have been
implemented nationally and internationally. More than 15,000 Partners graduates are part of a growing national and
international network of community leaders serving on policy making committees, commissions, and boards at all levels of
government. We are also reaching thousands of people monthly through the online courses.



Additional:
    There may be specialized trainings in the Diagnosis section.
    Wellness and Recovery tools can be found in Action Plans.