Kids Mental Health Training Portal
The Kids Mental Health Training portal integrates research and family voice to help providers, educators, and other child-serving professionals better support children’s behavioral health and well-being.
The place to find relevant and useful training in children’s behavioral health
The new Kids Mental Health Training Portal is an online, asynchronous learning portal that provides convenient, trustworthy, evidence-based training on a variety of children’s behavioral health topics for clinicians, educators, pediatric providers, and other youth-serving professionals. Courses are currently available at no cost to child-serving professionals nationwide.
Developed in response to the behavioral health needs of children and their families and learning needs youth-serving professionals, the Kids’ Mental Health Training Portal will strengthen and grow the children's behavioral health workforce in Connecticut and beyond.
About the courses
CHDI’s unique approach to training integrates family voice, community context, and research on evidence-based practices. Courses are developed in collaboration with families and youth with lived experience navigating the children’s behavioral health system.
All courses are fully online and self-paced. Most trainings and courses offer continuing education units/credits (CEUs) upon completion (see details in each course description).
Over the coming year, CHDI will develop additional courses and move other online courses we’ve created to this new platform, creating a one-stop shop for learning about children’s behavioral health for professionals in Connecticut and beyond.
Take a Course
Current courses are offered at no cost with available continuing education credits (CEUs). Browse the catalog or login to continue a course:
Featured Courses
Adolescent SBIRT Course
Learn how to perform Screening, Brief intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for adolescents at risk of developing substance use disorders. (2 CEUs)
School Refusal
Learn to address common obstacles to school attendance and improve home-school-provider collaboration. (2 CEUs)
A Comprehensive Introduction to the Ohio Scales for Youth
This course will provide the learner with skills to introduce the Ohio Scales for Youth - evidence-based measures to assess and monitor treatment - to youth and families, and use them to enhance and monitor treatment. (2 CEUs)
Gizmo's Pawesome Guide to Mental Health
This training will provide an overview of the the Gizmo 4 Mental Health Program and materials available.
Trauma ScreenTIME Courses
Trauma ScreenTIME Courses help child-serving professionals in various settings learn best practices for screening children for trauma and how to integrate screening into their settings. (CEUs/CECs vary)