This organization offers one and two-day trainings for leadership, organizations and staff who work in high pressure, high stress and trauma exposed workplace (duration not specified)
Competency: Knowledge, Activating, Behavioural
Audience: Management and Staff
Cost: Not indicated
This ground-breaking certification training program is for individuals and consultants who want to help organizations improve psychological health and safety in their workplaces or implement the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard). (2 day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Management (large organizations)
Cost: $1500
Mental Health Works provides capacity building workshops on workplace mental health to both employers and employees. Their approach is person centred, evidence based, and solutions focused. They meet the needs of workplaces for mental health training in three essential areas. Core Workshop (1 day)- provides participants an in depth understanding of mental health and mental illness. It is made up of four modules: Mental Health at Work, Mood and Depression, Stress and Anxiety, and Psychological Health and Safety. Focus (1/2 day); Essentials (1 hour)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Management and Staff
Cost: Not indicated
Offered locally through ECDSS Community Resilience Initiative (CRI) course highlights CRI’s capacity-building framework for building resilience, that describes community’s learning and movement from theory to practice and how to implement evidence-based strategies into action. The training includes three groups of topics: the NEAR sciences, a cluster of emerging scientific findings in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Study, and Resilience; Brain States, the critical transition from Knowledge to Insight; and ROLES, CRI’s signature training on Recognize, Observe, Label, Elect and Solve, core strategies thattake us below the tip of the proverbial iceberg. (1 day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: All
Cost: TBA
This introductory training acknowledges the prevalence and significant impact of trauma in an individual’s life and aims to inform service providers how to apply a trauma-informed lens to their current practice. This workshop will define and describe the six main trauma-informed principles outlined in the literature and will focus on how to translate these principles into practice. (2 day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: All
Cost: $220
The core of the training is the three-step RAP Model for intervention, which involves rapport building, assessing the individual, and planning for intervention. Focus on skills in active listening, conducting a standardized risk assessment, and developing safety plans with individuals at risk. Additional content on specific populations and community resources. (2-day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: ALL
Cost: Confirm cost with organization
This is an interactive workshop offered by the Suicide Prevention Resource Centre in Grande Prairie, for people working with youth. This one-day workshop discusses biological risk factors, vulnerabilities, and understanding suicidal thoughts and behaviour in the adolescent population. (1-day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Youth
Cost: $100
Offered by the Centre for Suicide Prevention, this is intended for Indigenous caregivers working in Indigenous communities. This workshop draws heavily on Indigenous culture and tradition as it seeks to take participants through the cycle of suicide grief. Walk with Me takes the participants on a journey from the past, to the present and looks to the future; it creates a context for people to examine where they are in the grief cycle and how they can move forward to hope. (1-day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Indigenous
Cost: $150
This Centre for Suicide Prevention workshop is a discussion-based workshop examining suicide prevention in Indigenous children and communities. The workshop draws heavily on storytelling and oral tradition. It begins by recognizing the unique precipitating factors of suicide in Indigenous communities and moves through to identifying risk and protective factors in children 12 years of age and younger. The workshop finishes by empowering participants with knowledge and tools to transfer the care of a child at risk of suicide to a community based resource person. ( 1 day)
It is recommended that participants of this workshop also attend the 2-day ASIST workshop for skills-based training.
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Indigenous / Children
Cost: $150
An interactive knowledge-based workshop which examines warning signs in a child and explores intervention strategies through stories and case studies. Intervention approaches build on the skills taught in the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) as they apply to children. (half day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Children / Youth
Cost: $100
This workshop is designed for clinicians and caregivers working with those recently at risk of and currently safe from suicide. It provides tools to help these caregivers and persons with experiences of suicide work together to develop achievable and significant recovery and growth goals. The focus of this workshop is recovery and growth for persons recently at risk of and currently safe from suicide, including people who experience recurring thoughts and feelings of suicide. This workshop is owned by LivingWorks Education and is delivered in Alberta by Centre for Suicide Prevention. (1 day)
Competency: Knowledge, Activating, Behavioural
Audience: All
Cost: $195
This workshop emphasizes the importance of recognizing the signs, communicating with the person at risk and getting help or resources for the person at risk. It uses the Tell Ask Listen and KeepSafe model. This workshop is owned by LivingWorks Education and is delivered in Alberta by Centre for Suicide Prevention. (half day)
Competency: Knowledge, Activating, Behavioural
Audience: All
Cost: $95
Delivered provincially through Imagine Institute for Learning, this Gatekeeper course is a half-day course aimed at building confidence in how to question, persuade and refer someone who may be suicidal. Participants will learn the warning signs for suicide and increase their knowledge around suicide. They will also increase their confidence in engaging in active listening, asking clarifying questions and making appropriate referrals.
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: All
Cost: $45
This refresher workshop is for people who hold a valid ASIST certificate. This workshop extends a person’s ASIST certification for a further two years and offers participants an opportunity to review the Pathway for Assisting Life Model, discuss successes and challenges in using the model, and clarify concepts covered within the model. This workshop is owned by LivingWorks Education and is delivered in Alberta by Centre for Suicide Prevention. (3.5 hours)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: All
Cost: $100
Offered through the Centre for Suicide Prevention two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. Although ASIST is widely used by healthcare providers, participants don’t need any formal training to attend the workshop—anyone 18 or older can learn and use the ASIST model. (2 days)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: All
Cost: $210
This course offered by the Psychology Foundation of Canada is effective in promoting positive parent-to-infant attachment and is a strong candidate for public health initiatives targeting parenting skills. 3 courses target different age groups: 0-1, 1-2, 2-3. (Duration not specified)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Children
Cost: Not indicated
Offered provincially through Imagine Institute for Learning, this Psychology Foundation of Canada program is designed to help the important people in children’s’ lives learn to promote resiliency by buffering the impact of stress, and building positive coping strategies to deal with life’s stressors. Two programs span from pre-school to grade 3. (1 day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Children
Cost: $110
The MHCC offers this course through CMHA and is intended for First Nations however, is also recommended for anyone that works with First Nations. It is designed to provide an opportunity for First Nations participants and others who work with First Nations to learn and have serious conversations about mental health and wellness. Participants will reflect on their life experiences, acknowledge the historical context of the colonization of Canada and move forward to address and explore ways to restore balance on a journey to mental health and wellness. (20 hours)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: Indigenous
Cost: Not indicated
The MHCC offers this course through CMHA which focuses on the four most common mental health disorders including substance related, mood related, anxiety and trauma related, and psychotic disorders. Participants who take this course are well prepared to interact confidently about mental health with their family, friends, communities, and workplaces. (2 day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: General
Cost: Not indicated
Circle of Security International offers this seminar which focuses on the correlation between core sensitivities and insecurity as described within attachment research; the intergenerational nature of each core sensitivity and how sub-sets of insecurity can be transmitted between parent and child; issues of vigilance within each core sensitivity regarding: autonomy, vulnerability, and/or intrusion Implications for treatment of parent/child dyads, teens, and adults; and the implications for all interpersonal relationships. (3 days)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: General
Cost: Not indicated
Imagine Institute for Learning offers a full-day learning immersion which will introduce participants to the neuroscience and epigenetics of brain development, the impacts of ACEs on brain architecture and human development as well as the hope of resilience. (1-day)
Competency: Knowledge, Behavioural, Activating
Audience: All
Cost: $110
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