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Training

CMHA Ottawa offers a number of training programs to professionals and others involved in the care of persons living with a mental illness, to employers, to educational institutions and to the general public. Training is offered on the dates and at the cost indicated below. If not so indicated, dates and associated costs are to be arranged on an individual basis. Please use the contact information listed for each individual program to register or obtain further information. Please note that we are always happy to discuss your training needs and adapt our training programs, scheduling and costs as appropriate on an individualized basis.

ASIST and TUNE-UP - (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is the standard training experience for suicide prevention in our community (two days).
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Concurrent Disorder Training - a 3 day training program for people who work with individuals who have a co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse problem.
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It Did Happen – It Does Matter - provides for professionals a balance between a conceptual understanding of male sexual victimization and specific skills-building to work with clients who are traumatized.
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Myths and Realities of Mental Illness - provided the knowledge necessary to recognize behaviours associated with mental illness.
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safeTALK - prepares you to identify and engage people with thoughts of suicide and to connect them with further help and care.
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SuicideCare - aims to enhance helper self-awareness, knowledge and competence in working constructively with a person at risk beyond the immediate crisis.
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Talking about Mental Illness - provides Grade 11 & 12 students with the opportunity to hear the stories of community members who have experienced a mental illness. It also provides information about local mental health-related resources that provide support and help to youth coping with their own or a family member or friend's mental illness.
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Understanding the Unspoken Pain - is an awareness workshop to help participants understand survivors of war and torture, and to make referrals to appropriate services.
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Mental Health Works - learn to identify and to effectively address the complex issues around mental health problems in the workplace.
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Advanced Motivational Interviewing Training
Motivation can be understood not as something someone has, but as something someone does. It involves: recognizing a problem, finding a way to change, starting and sticking with that change strategy (Miller & Rollnick). Motivational Interviewing proposes a series of principles, skills and methods that help us communicate with people in ways that foster and promote motivation.
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