North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services
Providers of MH/DD/SA Services
Clinical Skills Training
Listed below are the clinical skills training or service definitions (for the Medicaid Enhanced Benefit Services) in which six hours of service definition training is required. The minimally required training elements to include in building a 6 or 12 contact hour curriculum are listed to the right.
For information about courses which satisfy the training requirements for service definitions, see Enhanced Services Implementation Update #36.
Links to Trainers Formerly Known As Endorsed *:
Community Support Services
Diagnostic Assessment for Mental Health
Diagnostic Assessment for Substance Abuse
Intensive In Home Services
Mobile Crisis Management
Developmental Disability Services
Targeted Case Management
Crisis Planning and Management
CAP-MR/DD Waiver Services
Many of the trainers listed under the various categories above also offer person centered planning/thinking training. Please contact them and ask!
We would urge providers to consider having these trainers (above) conduct "train-the-trainer" classes for the individuals that the providers may choose to have deliver the training to their staff in the future.
To view maps of where endorsed trainers have conducted trainings, click here.
Area Health Education Centers (AHECs). The mission of the North Carolina AHEC Program is to meet the state’s health and health workforce needs by providing educational programs in partnership with academic institutions, health care agencies, and other organizations committed to improving the health of the people of North Carolina. (The Southern Regional AHEC houses the N.C. Evidence-Based Practices Center which is where a lot of evidenced based practice training and other clinical skills trainings are offered).
UNC-CH School of Social Work provides clinical training to the North Carolina public MH/DD/SA system through two programs within the Jordan Institute for Families:
- The Behavioral Healthcare Resource Program (BHRP) is designed to provide clinical consultation, technical assistance and trainings designed for professionals working in the public mental health and substance abuse programs. Trainings include the required clinical skills training topics as well as a range of evidenced based practices and skill development and enhancement for the provider community. Trainings are held throughout the state and are open to the public as well as available in agency only settings. Additionally, the program also provide a Certificate Program for MSW students in substance abuse studies, onsite technical assistance regarding clinical management and design and clinical supervision training for substance abuse and mental health professionals.
- The Developmental Disabilities Training Institute (DDTI) primary mission is to foster improvements in services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities through developing the knowledge, attitudes and skills of staff involved in their lives. This includes: (1) researching developments within the field of developmental disabilities "best practices;" (2) training to administrators, professionals and paraprofessionals in the field and (3) providing targeted program evaluation and technical assistance to agencies and organizations involved in managing, coordinating or providing developmental disabilities services
MST Services offer training in Multisystemic Therapy.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) offers the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) tool kit information and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers the standards and technical assistance in the form of a program of assertive community treatment (PACT). As stated on the NAMI website: " Call the NAMI Assertive Community Treatment Technical Assistance Center toll-free at 1-800-950-6264 to receive the PACT Advocacy Guide, the PACT Fact Sheet, the PACT Implementation Checklist, and the national PACT Program Standards for New Teams. For more information about programs of assertive community treatment, to order the The PACT Model of Community-Based Treatment for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental ILlness: A Manual for PACT Start-Up, or to read the national PACT Standards for New Teams visit the NAMI web site, www.nami.org, or call the NAMI ACT Technical Assistance Center at 1-800-950-6264."
Updated January 30, 2006
Send questions about clinical skills training to the Division's training team.
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These trainers hold at least a Master's degree in a Human Services field, at least 3 years direct clinical experience with MH/DD/SA populations, and at least 3 years professional experience in the health and human services field as a trainer of adult learners. They also completed a Division-recognized "training-of-trainers" model in the service definition for which they were qualified.
