Kids Mental Health Training Portal
The KidsMentalHealthTraining.org 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).
Throughout 2025, CHDI will be moving 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, register, or login to continue a course:
Featured Courses
School Refusal
Learn to address common obstacles to school attendance and improve home-school-provider collaboration. (2 CEUs)
Adolescent SBIRT
Learn how to perform Screening, Brief intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for adolescents at risk of developing substance use disorders. (2 CEUs)
Trauma ScreenTIME
Learn best practices for screening children for trauma in settings like schools, pediatric offices, and early childhood programs. (Hosted on TraumaScreenTIME.org - CEUs vary)
Introduction to the Ohio Scales for Youth
Learn skills to introduce the Ohio Scales to families and use them to enhance and monitor treatment. Taught by Ben Ogles, PhD, Brigham Young University (2 CEUs)
Gizmo’s Pawesome Guide to Mental Health
This training provides an overview of the the Gizmo 4 Mental Health Program and materials available, including "Gizmo's Pawesome Guide to Mental Health."