Community Training
We spend a lot of time teaching what we know. Across our seven-county region, RiverValley offers mental health trainings that help everyday people recognize trouble early and respond with confidence.
Want to schedule a training for your organization, or just curious what’s coming up? Email training@rvbh.com or use the contact form.
Mental Health First Aid
RiverValley has trained more than 1,000 teachers, clergy, first responders, doctors, dentists, social service workers, and other everyday helpers in Mental Health First Aid across our seven counties.
Mental Health First Aid is an eight-hour course that teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. The training gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem or experiencing a crisis. We offer both Adult and Youth Mental Health First Aid classes.
No Cost: RiverValley Behavioral Health offers Mental Health First-Aid training at no cost to participants year-round.
Narcan Training
Narcan is a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of opioid overdose and save lives.
The training covers the numbers behind opioid overdose, the signs and symptoms to watch for, what fentanyl is, how to spot counterfeit pills, how to administer Narcan, and how to store and dispose of it safely. Participants also receive a free dose of Narcan Nasal Spray.
No Cost: RiverValley Behavioral Health offers Narcan training at no cost to participants year-round.
Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Suicide Prevention Training
Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) training helps participants learn the warning signs of suicide and how to question, persuade and refer someone to get help.
No Cost: RiverValley Behavioral Health offers QPR training at no cost to participants year-round.
Other Training Types
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-Informed Care provides an overview of trauma, helping participants recognize the impact of trauma exposure on development and functioning so that participants can utilize Trauma-Informed Care in prevention and intervention responses.
No Cost: RiverValley Behavioral Health offers Trauma-Informed Care training at no cost to participants year-round.
Crisis Intervention Team Training
RiverValley provides Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) annual training to local law enforcement. This training can help keep people with mental illness out of jail and in treatment, on the road to recovery.
CIT helps to reduce arrests of people with mental illness while simultaneously increasing the likelihood that individuals will receive mental health services.
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk for Substance Use Disorder Treatment Professionals (AMSR-SUD)
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk for Substance Use Disorder Treatment Professionals (AMSR-SUD) training aims to provide participants with the background knowledge and practical skills that they need to address suicidal risk and behaviors in clients in care for substance use disorder treatment.
AMSR-SUD is provided annually to the community or for large groups upon request.
Compassion Fatigue & Resiliency Training
Compassion fatigue is real, and people in every helping profession are feeling it. This training looks at the role resilience and compassion satisfaction play in pushing back. We explore four areas where resilience can be built and work through activities you can actually use to balance trauma exposure with compassion satisfaction.
No Cost: Training is provided at no cost to groups upon request.
ResponderStrong Mental Health Curriculum Training
ResponderStrong is a four-hour training built by emergency responders, for emergency responders, with help from educators and mental health clinicians. The content is practical and evidence-based, aimed squarely at the mental health realities of first response work.
It covers suicide (occupational data, risk factors, and response strategies), stress and how the body’s physiologic response affects responders, post-traumatic stress injury and where to find support, and how to build and strengthen resilience.
This curriculum can be integrated at any level of training, whether you’re just starting, providing peer support, participating in in-service, or leading a team.
No Cost: ResponderStrong training is provided at no cost to first responder groups upon request.
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RiverValley Behavioral Health is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), demonstrating that our organization is committed to providing the best possible quality of care for our clients and communities.
