Kids Mental Health Training Portal
Convenient, trustworthy, evidence-based training for clinicians, educators, and other youth-serving professionals on a range of children's behavioral health topics.
The place to find relevant, evidence-based training in children’s behavioral health
The Kids Mental Health Training portal is an online, asynchronous learning portal that provides convenient, 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 identified by professionals like you - the Kids Mental Health Training portal will support and strengthen 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 response to workforce needs and in collaboration with families and youth with lived experience navigating the children’s behavioral health system.
All courses are online and self-paced, and most offer continuing education units/credits (CEUs) upon completion (details in course descriptions). Unless otherwise noted, courses are open to child-serving professionals nationwide.
We plan to develop 4-6 new courses annually to fill gaps identified in currently available workforce training, becoming a one-stop shop for learning about children’s behavioral health.
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
Learn 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)
Brief Introduction to Wraparound
Learn skills to implement the Wraparound Practice Model in work with children and families. (2 CEUs)
Trauma ScreenTIME Courses
Learn best practices for screening children for trauma and how to integrate screening into different child-serving settings. Courses specific to early childhood, schools, pediatric primary care are available, in addition to a core course appropriate for any child-serving professional. (CEUs/CECs vary)
Gizmo's Pawesome Guide to Mental Health
This training will provide an overview of the the Gizmo 4 Mental Health Program and materials available.
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The Kids Mental Health Training portal is funded jointly by CHDI and the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF), with additional support from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Connecticut Transformation Transfer Initiative via the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.