Brief Action Planning Certification Brief Action Planning (BAP) Certification is a standardized exam for assessing skill competence and fidelity in BAP. The exam is a recorded zoom teleconference session with a standardized patient, who is trained to give you opportunities to demonstrate the full range of questions and skills in Brief Action Planning. The session takes up to 20 minutes (though the interaction itself should take less than 10). Afterwards, the recording is assessed using a standardized scoring tool and successful candidates are awarded a Brief Action Planning certificate.  This handout contains some helpful tips to prepare for certification.  Pre-requisite: Prior training in Brief Action Planning For more information, contact eLearning@centrecmi.ca Read more

This self-paced online mini course introduces participants to foundational concepts on the impact of trauma and trauma-informed care (TIC) as a set of universal principles for high-quality system design. Learners will understand that TIC is critical to person-centred health-system transformation and gain practice in applying the principles of TIC to a small system-change opportunity, with an emphasis on moving rapidly from concepts to action.   Topics include: Trauma and resilience Adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) Trauma informed care Universal design   Note: This course is focused on system-level precautions, and does not teach clinical skills or therapeutic modalities for screening or treating people suffering from the effects of trauma. Read more

The MI Beyond Foundations mini courses are designed for learners who want to deepen their MI knowledge, skills, strategies. Each mini course focuses on one concept and is designed with practical application in mind.   In MI, discrepancy is when a person’s behaviour doesn’t match with their values or goals. Or, their current state doesn’t match their desired state. This mini course explores the concept of discrepancy and strategies for developing a sense of discrepancy when a person doesn't see the conflict between their behaviours and values or goals.    Time commitment: 30-60 minutes self-paced online content, followed by a 30 min 1:1 practice and feedback session. You will have 30 days from enrollment to complete the course. Read more

This course offers a brief introduction to the common principles of trauma-informed care (TIC), cultural safety (CS), person- and family-centred care (PFCC), and motivational interviewing (MI). We estimate that the course takes 2-3 hours to complete, including practice and application activities. You will have access to the course for 60 days from enrollment.    You may choose to work through this course on your own or with a partner or a group. Having a partner or a group can be helpful for generating feedback and ideas for how to apply what you are learning to your specific situation. It will also give you an opportunity to practice new things before you try them out in real life.    Note: This course is focused on common principles of these approaches. Aside from providing brief definitions of each approach, this course does not provide in-depth training in any approach. Links to additional resources are provided for those who want to learn more.    Prerequisites: None. An introductory knowledge of TIC, CS, PFCC, and MI is helpful, but not required.    Please note that this course is in beta testing. As a beta tester, you would be one of the first people (outside of the development team) to take this course. Any feedback you have to offer will be taken under consideration for revisions before the course is marketed to a broader audience.  Read more

Ready to evaluate motivational conversations? Provide feedback to others for skill enhancement? Elevate your self-reflection for improved skill? Let’s power up together! The MICA is a valid and reliable rating instrument for assessing motivational conversations. The MICA relies on the principles, strategies and approach as presented in Miller & Rollnick’s Motivational Interviewing texts, Third and Fourth Editions. The MICA allows users to evaluate a practitioner’s helping conversation, assess MI competence from a quality assurance perspective, and provide a quality improvement process to move from beginning use of MI to proficient demonstration. Ultimately, MICA’s goal is to provide professionals with easily digestible, structured and specific feedback regarding their effort to use MI with those they serve. The Complete Foundations training will introduce participants to the MICA’s 2 strategies and 5 intentions, plus provide multiple opportunities to rate motivational conversations using the MICA. And you will receive 12 follow up skill enhancement emails—one weekly after course completion to support practice integration. From this thorough foundation, you will be able to decide for yourself, your organization and/or your system of care whether and how to implement the MICA into your essential evaluation and skill development processes.   Registration open: October 25, 2024 - March 3, 2025 Capacity: 20 people (first-come, first-serve) This training will be held virtually, as a series of 4 webinars (total 12 hours) April 7, 2025 from 8:30-11:30 am PST April 8, 2025 from 8:30-11:30 am PST April 14, 2025 from 8:30-11:30 am PST April 15, 2025 from 8:30-11:30 am PST   This course requires full registration to proceed. If the course is not filled by March 3, 2025, it will be cancelled or rescheduled and anyone who has registered will be contacted and issued a full refund.  Read more

Ready to evaluate motivational conversations? Provide feedback to others for skill enhancement? Elevate your self-reflection for improved skill? Let’s power up together! The MICA is a valid and reliable rating instrument for assessing motivational conversations. The MICA relies on the principles, strategies and approach as presented in Miller & Rollnick’s Motivational Interviewing texts, Third and Fourth Editions. The MICA allows users to evaluate a practitioner’s helping conversation, assess MI competence from a quality assurance perspective, and provide a quality improvement process to move from beginning use of MI to proficient demonstration. Ultimately, MICA’s goal is to provide professionals with easily digestible, structured and specific feedback regarding their effort to use MI with those they serve. The Complete Foundations training will introduce participants to the MICA’s 2 strategies and 5 intentions, plus provide multiple opportunities to rate motivational conversations using the MICA. And you will receive 12 follow up skill enhancement emails—one weekly after course completion to support practice integration. From this thorough foundation, you will be able to decide for yourself, your organization and/or your system of care whether and how to implement the MICA into your essential evaluation and skill development processes. Read more