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ACCME & NAB CREDITS WILL BE OFFERED.

QPR training will offer strategies to support your work in providing suicide prevention and mental wellness to your residents. This 1.5-hour evidence-based instructor-led training is held virtually and will provide a comprehensive review of a three-step approach anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.

Key Components Covered in the Training:

1. How to Question, Persuade and Refer someone who may be suicidal
2. How to get help for yourself or learn more about preventing suicide
3. The common causes of suicidal behavior
4. The warning signs of suicide
5. How to get help for someone in crisis

Registration is limited.

Speaker: Marti Vogt, BT

ACCME & NAB CREDITS WILL BE OFFERED.

Discover the basic strategies for implementing and maintaining a successful behavioral management program in your long-term care setting. Topics include leadership, regulatory compliance, documentation, care planning, and resident level management strategies. Participants will have a better understanding of how to manage their behavioral residents and implement successful processes.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify common characteristics of resident behavior and their unique needs in the long-term care environment.
2. Recognize the inherent challenges that come with a behavioral health model.
3. Use appropriate and effective team strategies to manage resident behaviors in the long-term care setting.

Speaker: Barbara Bull, RN, BSN

ACCME & NAB CREDITS WILL BE OFFERED.

In this informative session, losses such as deaths, ending of careers, new locations, health, and other losses will be examined and solutions to grief will be presented. There is an emphasis on not being alone and connecting with grief support groups, filling a memory box, creating a grief journal, and discovering alternatives such as participating in new hobbies, adopting a pet, volunteering or dating, in cases of spousal deaths. Reactions of grief, dealing with holidays and reviewing one’s spirituality will be explored. Positive actions in bereavement, self-care and assisting the bereaved will also be discussed. Resources will be available.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discern the difference between grief in older adults and how it may differ from younger people.
2. Describe effective support and communication with older adults in grief and bereavement.
3. Describe ways to direct individuals to continue with a quality life starting over in a different realm.

Speaker: Dr. Swati Gaur & Dr. Azen

ACCME AND NAB CREDITS WILL BE OFFERED.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training provides skills to contact and provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use challenge or experiencing a crisis.

This session provides a MHFA certification for three years.

The training covers:

• Common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges and substance use challenges.
• How to interact with a person in crisis.
• How to connect a person with help.
• Expanded content on trauma, substance use and self-care

The training is divided into three (3) parts:

Part 1 starts AFTER initial registration has been APPROVED by the instructor. Approved registrants will be emailed instructions on how to create an on-line profile using MHFA Connect and completing a pre-survey/quiz followed by a 2-hour self-paced online course. Registrants MUST complete Part 1 no less than 48 hours (two business days) prior to the scheduled Part 2 session.

Part 2 is a 5.5-hour live instructor led virtual training. Participants are required to be on camera the entire time.

Part 3 participants will return to MHFA Connect to complete the post test and evaluation, required to receive a certificate of participation.

7.75 NAB credits and 5.5 ACCME credits will be offered after completing this live training.

Registration is limited.  To register for the Mental Health First Aid training, click here – https://bit.ly/MHFA_RegistrationForm

Speaker: Holly Pounders