Recovery Support Specialist Package

This training is an overview of what recovery support services are and who provides them. This module part of the “Becoming a Recovery Support Professional” series required for Recovery Support Specialists.

This course is intended for Recovery Support Specialist and Recovery Coaches. This course provided essential skills that include the coaching cycle, listening, communication, boundaries, tools and self care.

This course briefly reviews general group facilitation guidelines pertaining to planning peer support group; developing a peer support group comfort agreement; using your personal recovery story in group discussion; and using verbal and nonverbal behaviors that promote conversation in the peer support group. Additionally, this course describes ways to address cross-talking, side-talking, and other challenging behaviors in a peer support group.

Conflict resolution skills are essential for helping professional. This course provides and overview of roadblock to conflict resolution and strategies for resolving conflict.

Addiction, it has been said, is a condition that crosses all socioeconomic, gender, age, and cultural lines. The more we learn about addiction, the more it seems that anyone, from anywhere, regardless of their background, can fall prey to addiction. With a wider range of cultures exposed to addictive substances – and having them directly marketed to them – the concept of cultural competence becomes increasingly important. Health disparities are a BIG topic of discussion in our world, especially with the detrimental impact of COVID on specific communities of people. Addictions has experienced the consequences of health disparities long before COVID. This course is intended to get you think (and acting) about what we can do has healers in bringing about health PARITY. Inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility are important for the safety of our client/patients and facilitate the delivery of competent, compassionate, meaningful care.

The purpose of this course is to convey a working understanding of harm reduction (HR) as it is applied to substance use disorder. Harm reduction is an approach that promotes health in a way that meets people where they are at, accepting that not everyone is ready or capable of stopping their substance use at a given time.

Assessing risk for self harm and suicide has become an essential part of treating addiction. This course will help reduce current unwarranted clinical practice variations and provide facilities with a structured framework to help improve patient outcomes (prevent suicide and other forms of suicidal self-directed violent behavior); provide evidence-based recommendations to assist providers and their patients in the decision-making process; and identify outcome measures to support the development of practice-based evidence that can ultimately be used to improve clinical guidelines.

This course covers various treatment approaches designed specifically to treat trauma-related symptoms, trauma-related disorders, and specific disorders of traumatic stress. To do this, trauma-specific treatment models, providing a brief overview of interventions that can be delivered immediately after a trauma, as well as trauma-specific interventions for use beyond the immediate crisis is addressed. In addition, focus is placed on integrated care that targets trauma-specific treatment for mental, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. Finally, this course provides a brief review of selected emerging interventions, with a focus on Seeking Safety.

You will become familiar with a Code of Ethics for Peer Recovery Support Specialists and learn how values, coupled with ethics, will assist in ethical and effective decision making. In the span of your career, you will be presented with ethical dilemmas and encounter obstacles to ethical decision making. This course will review what you may already know and prepare you for decisions you have yet to make. Additionally, professional boundaries, when not observed, do not keep the best interest of the participants first and foremost. Ethics, values and professional boundaries come together to provide the best and most ethical care for the participants of our recovery support programs.

Motivation for change is a key component in addressing substance misuse. Motivational Interviewing is a tool that SUD treatment counselors can utilize to influence positive behavior change by developing a therapeutic relationship that respects and builds on the client’s autonomy. Different motivational interventions counselors can apply to all stages in the Stages of Change (SOC) model related to substance misuse and recovery from addiction are also described.

The purpose of this course is to inform the nonclinical paraprofessionals about their legal obligations to protect the confidentiality and privacy of their consumers. This guidance is for behavioral healthcare programs that are subject to and already complying with the confidentiality requirements of 42 CFR Part 2 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The information in the following slides is intended as guidance and is not a legal opinion. This course is intended for all paraprofessional employees in the organization.

Although adolescents are developmentally distinct from adults, they often receive addiction treatment based on adult models. This is problematic because adolescents face significantly different conditions in addiction treatment, including distinct basic biological and neurodevelopmental stages, unique sociodevelopmental concerns, distinctive addiction trajectories, and, in turn, disparate treatment goals and outcomes. In sum, it can be difficult for even savvy clinicians to know how to approach addiction treatment with this important age group. This course intends to help clinician understand the special needs of teens in eliminating harmful substance use.

Why do teenagers act like that? Adults have been asking this question for generations. Impulsivity, rapid mood swings, dangerous experimentation, angry outbursts, and poor decision making are just some of the behaviors that emerge as children enter adolescence. The actual physiological makeup of the teenage brain is responsible for more of adolescents’ behavior than we may have realized. In this course, you will learn about the science of the teenage brain; how it affects teenagers’ emotions, thought processes, and behavior; and how to work with these challenges rather than fight against them. You’ll also develop concrete strategies for identifying at-risk behaviors, managing the mental and behavioral challenges unique to teenagers, and harnessing their strengths to keep them motivated and engaged in learning/behavior change.

This course explores impact substance use has on pregnant women and their unborn children with a focus on NAS and FAS. This course is required for HHSC funded PPI program, as well as specialized female treatment and MAT programs that service women.

This is a chapter from Foundation of Counseling. Describes some of the important factors that helping professionals might consider when working with youth.

Trauma is devastating for everyone. Children experience and cope with trauma very differently than adults. This course is an overview of helping children who have been exposed too or experience trauma recover.

This training is designed as a part of the child development series to better understand human development and the way adverse childhood experiences impacts individuals across the lifespan. This course focus on classic warning sign behaviors, including conversation examples between patient and clinical advisor. Including treatment plans and therapy approaches. Within this training you will see graphs, videos and some narration that provides addition support.

Assessing risk for self harm and suicide in youth has become an essential part of treating addiction. This course will help reduce current unwarranted clinical practice variations and provide facilities with a structured framework to help improve patient outcomes (prevent suicide and other forms of suicidal self-directed violent behavior); provide evidence-based recommendations to assist providers and their patients in the decision-making process; and identify outcome measures to support the development of practice-based evidence that can ultimately be used to improve clinical guidelines.

3 CEs. This course meets mandatory human trafficking training for Texas and is approved by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. This course is designed to help you better understand the severity of human trafficking-when, how and why human trafficking occurs. This course focuses on who is trafficked, types of trafficking, and how healthcare professionals can identify, prevent and interrupt human trafficking. Some information in this course of graphic nature. This course is a combination of written text, audio and video. Please watch videos in full. We have selected what we believe to be the most accurate content to illustrate and illuminate the information provided. Several videos may have triggering information. As always, this topic is evolving daily, and we are learning new things regarding the care, prevention, and how to aide those both directly and indirectly involved in human trafficking.

Counselors, clients, facilities and the public at large benefit from counselor clinical supervision. Supervision is a guarantee the best possible way forward to professional and personal development. It protects the client and community from harm and the facility from liability. This course is intended to give supervisors the necessary information to competently supervise counselor interns and other subordinates.

BHC Training has prepared these training materials based on the minimum human resources standards for businesses in Texas. This training is meant to provide a basic overview of the minim legal standards and best practice for managers and administrators for business in Texas. Many of these standards are federal regulations and apply to business in other states as well. Please check your state and local business code for additional information.

This is a video-based course and includes presentations by leading trauma experts in behavioral healthcare. The following videos include an overview of trauma informed supervision, a detail trauma informed supervision webinar and examples of trauma informed clinical supervision. The total time for all three videos is 2.5 hours.