VIA LINK/PCAL trainings are approved for social work continuing education units (CEUs) and NBCC Credit Hours
VIA LINK is also able to approve training content for social work CEUs for other agencies. For application information email screspo@vialink.org
AVAILABLE TRAINING
Suicide Education & Response
(1, 2, 3, and 4 hour options)
- An educational training that will review current statistics on suicide, debunk suicide myths, build understanding suicide ideation in the brain, review risk factors, and build skills on how to ask about suicide and conversationally assess risk
- Trainings specific for youth/adolescent risk, perinatal risk, and substance misuse risk available
- Training specific to school faculty available
Crisis Intervention/De-escalation
(1 and 2 hour options)
- An educational training that will review crisis theory, build understanding of the crisis state of brain, educate on the sympathetic vs. parasympathetic nervous system, build verbal skills to be utilized for de-escalation, and review basic do’s and don’t’s
Working with Past Trauma
(1 and 1.5 hour options)
- An educational training that will review and define “trauma”, build understanding of trauma effects on the brain, define skills for supporting individuals who have experienced trauma, and build understanding of how trauma may present itself
Understanding Grief
(.5 and 1 hour option)
- An educational training that will build understanding on what grief is and how it can present itself as well as give skills for responding and supporting someone experiencing grief.
Traumatic Grief
(1 hour)
- An educational training that will define grief and trauma, and how traumatic grief may differ in presentation and effects; as well as build skills on responding to an individual experiencing traumatic grief. **There is an option to include a Grief Movement Demonstration into any trauma/grief presentation**
Self Harm
(.5 hour option)
- An educational training which will define self harm and build understanding to how you can respond to self harm.
The Ethics of Self Care
(.5 and 1 hour options)
- An educational training that will explain the process of how “burn out” can build up, how to recognize the signs of burn out, and how utilizing self care combats burn out.
ASIST by LivingWorks
- ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is an evidence based training developed by LivingWorks. This two-full day training is approved for 12 continuing education hours for social workers and counselors. Attendees will learn skills such as: identifying suicide risk, building confidence and competence in addressing risk, listening without judgement, and creating a safety plan including local community resources.
SafeTALK by LivingWorks
- SafeTALK is an evidence based training developed by LivingWorks. This half-day training will inform attendees on the skills of: recognizing signs of someone in distress, starting a conversation with someone about suicide, and connecting individuals to resources
Balancing Safety and Autonomy
- This training focuses on the ethics of safety planning and emergency room diversion. Attendees will gain knowledge and insight on balancing the ethics of safety planning and intervention including skills on: how to build to suicide ambivalence to create a safety plan, elements of a safety plan, means restriction, secure storage, self surrender, and local resources
Stewards of Children’s Darkness to Light Training
- A 2 hour training focused on preventing child sexual abuse.
- The mission of Darkness to Light’s evidence based training, Stewards of Children, is to empower adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse through awareness, education, and stigma reduction.
Adverse Childhood Experiences Training
- A training on Adverse Childhood Experiences and the lasting effects of trauma on children.
- We will learn about the ACEs Study and what the assessment given to participants in the study looked like. Finally, we will touch on why some people with high ACEs score seem to be resilient even through adversity.
- Specific trainings include: Introduction to Trauma Informed Care and Introduction to Trauma Informed Education
From Mandated Reporter to Mandated Supporter
- Keeping Families Connected – a training on mandated reporting, and how to utilize skills to keep families connected to your care in the instances where a report to DCFS is necessary.
Bullying Awareness
- A presentation for faculty who work with youth and adolescents on understanding the roots of “bullying” and how to respond when bullying is occurring in your community.
Creating Self Regulating Classrooms
- Creating an environment for students to be able to self regulate requires both a proactive classroom environment and staff equipped with reactive skills. This training will offer information on both skills and how to implement in your school or classroom.