Upcoming Trainings:
Culturally Responsive SUD & Suicide Prevention
"Be Sensitive, Be Brave for SUD and Suicide Prevention"
Date: January 19, 2027.
Time: 10 AM - 12 PM.
Where: Virtual - Zoom links will be sent 2-3 days prior to the training date.
Cost: $35 per person (Oregon Alliance members receive 10% off).
All participants will receive 2 MHACBO CEUs upon completion!
“Be Sensitive, Be Brave for SUD & Suicide Prevention” is a training that infuses culture and diversity throughout a foundational workshop for community helpers. This training teaches participants to act as eyes and ears for substance use disorder (SUD) problems and to connect individuals to help that matches their readiness to change.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify signs and effects of problem substance use.
- Support people in a way that matches their readiness to change.
- Build a supportive community to increase healing and involvement.
- Approach substance use prevention and assistance in a culturally sensitive manner.
- Respond to community needs and decrease stigma surrounding SUD and suicide.
About The Trainer
Martin Lockett is the Director of Cultural Engagement at Lines for Life, a substance abuse counselor, author, and public speaker. Martin has worked at Lines for Life for four years. As Director of Cultural Engagement, Martin leads a team of outreach coordinators into communities of color where their mission is to destigmatize mental health, substance abuse and suicide, build skills, and offer culturally responsive resources.
Martin is a certified trainer in Mental Health First Aid, QPR, H.E.A.T 4 Youth, and Be Sensitive, Be Brave. His trainings are geared toward teaching community members who interact with, serve, and work with BIPOC individuals how to recognize signs and symptoms of mental health and suicidal challenges, appropriately respond, and how to refer for professional and cultural support.
Questions? Reach out to [email protected]
Leadership in Action: Conversations That Matter
Training Dates: This leadership training series will be held in 3 sessions: January 21, February 18, and March 18. All training session descriptions and dates can be found below.
Times: 10 AM - 12 PM each session.
Where: Virtual - Zoom links will be sent 2-3 days prior to the training date.
Cost: $150 per person (Oregon Alliance members receive 10% off and WACF members receive 20% off).
All participants will receive 6 MHACBO CEUs upon completion!
Join the Oregon Child & Family Center for Excellence and Rebecca Nickels of RPN Strategies for a three-part training series for first-time and/or developing supervisors. The foundation of each training will incorporate trauma informed principles to support your ability to co-create work environments and teams that are built on trust and collaboration, while striving to facilitate emotional safety at work.
Leadership training sessions agenda:
- January 21: Building Trust through Intentional Supervision
Discuss strategies for supervisors to intentionally build and sustain trust within their teams and within individual relationships between co-workers.
- February 18: Navigating Tough Conversations
Discuss how to navigate tough conversations to support co-workers and build an environment where staff feel emotionally safe enough to bring their fuller selves to work.
- March 18: Creating a Culture of Feedback
Discuss strategies for supervisors to support all team members to facilitate a culture of feedback, including how to navigate repair when needed.
About The Trainer
Rebecca Peatow Nickels is the principal for RPN Strategies, where she helps organizations and leaders be at their best. Rebecca is an organizational development consultant and provides training focused on implementing trauma informed approaches, leadership coaching, interim leadership for agencies in transition, group facilitation, and strategic planning. Rebecca has been working alongside survivors of sexual and domestic violence in various capacities since 1996.
Questions? Reach out to [email protected]
Motivational Interviewing for Youth from Marginalized Communities
Date: February 4, 2027.
Times: 10 AM - 12 PM.
Where: Virtual - Zoom links will be sent 2-3 days prior to the training date.
Cost: $85 per person (Oregon Alliance members receive 10% off).
All participants will receive 2 MHACBO CEUs upon completion!
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered counseling approach designed to help individuals enhance their own motivation to make positive changes in their lives by exploring and resolving ambivalence, primarily by eliciting their own reasons for change and supporting their self-efficacy to take action. This training starts with the trainer’s personal story of lived experience with addiction and the criminal system, which prompted him to create this version of Motivational Interviewing.
Key Training Points:
- Focus on ambivalence: MI aims to address the internal conflict people often experience when considering change, where they might both want to change and resist it at the same time.
- Client-centered: The counselor primarily listens to the client’s perspective, values, and concerns, rather than imposing their own agenda.
- Empowering: MI seeks to empower the individual to identify their own reasons for change and develop a plan for action. Particularly, this training provides skills to adults working with youth to help them believe in their own ability to change and breakthrough unhealthy belief patterns.
- Humanizing: This version of MI explicitly recognizes the dehumanizing feelings that marginalized youth (particularly those impacted by the criminal justice system) have internalized and provides skills and tools to humanize the client, fostering better rapport between adult and youth.
About The Trainer
Martin Lockett is the Director of Cultural Engagement at Lines for Life, a substance abuse counselor, author, and public speaker. Martin has worked at Lines for Life for four years. As Director of Cultural Engagement, Martin leads a team of outreach coordinators into communities of color where their mission is to destigmatize mental health, substance abuse and suicide, build skills, and offer culturally responsive resources.
Martin is a certified trainer in Mental Health First Aid, QPR, H.E.A.T 4 Youth, and Be Sensitive, Be Brave. His trainings are geared toward teaching community members who interact with, serve, and work with BIPOC individuals how to recognize signs and symptoms of mental health and suicidal challenges, appropriately respond, and how to refer for professional and cultural support.
Questions? Reach out to [email protected]
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