Advanced Crisis Core Training
EnHaNCING
SKILLS
Building your crisis knowledge
Upon completion of the Crisis Core training for new crisis workers, as required by Wisconsin DHS Chapter 34: Emergency Mental Health Service Programs, you have the opportunity to continue developing your crisis response skills through participation in advanced crisis trainings. If you have not already completed Crisis Core training, please do so before participating in these advanced crisis trainings.
These advanced crisis trainings will not only satisfy the minimum requirement for mobile crisis response teams, but include specialty topics to further enhance your crisis knowledge, skills, and service delivery. Please ensure that you have already completed the Crisis Core Orientation training series.
Mobile Crisis Response Team Training
Mental health and substance use crises have been increasing throughout the pandemic, and the federal government has recognized the need for an improved mobile crisis response. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Medicaid Services received planning grant funds to design an enhanced mobile crisis service, and partnered with the Behavioral Health Training Partnership at UW-Green Bay to create a new Mobile Crisis Response Team curriculum.
This training curriculum will prepare mobile crisis workers to better respond in the community to individuals experiencing mental health and/or substance abuse challenges, operating in teams and in a way that increases the utilization of telehealth services. The expectation is that this training will allow for new potential mobile team members to work mobile crisis to help alleviate the current workforce shortage, and the utilization of telehealth teaming in mobile crisis will assist various rural or geographically spatial counties in providing mobile crisis services via teaming and with the ability to connect with specialty providers. Finally, these improved teaming services will better assist Wisconsin residents in working through their mental health and/or substance abuse crises through a more integrated system.
This mobile crisis response team training curriculum was supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $853,504.00 with 100 percent funded by CMS/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CMS/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
Core Competencies
This training series is comprised of six (6) live, synchronous training courses, as well as a self-paced, asynchronous course that covers foundational teachings on de-escalation techniques, suicide and telehealth, and peer support services. Live coursework builds on the foundational skills taught in the self-paced course, and includes discussion and small group work.
For more information about the core competencies that make up this curriculum, as well as to keep track of your training requirements, use our Mobile Crisis Response Team Orientation and Training Checklist.
Minimum Training Requirements - Medicaid
In order to satisfy the training requirements to be eligible to receive enhanced Medicaid reimbursement beginning in January 2024, the following training sessions must be successfully completed (in addition to foundational crisis core training per DHS 34.21(8).):
- Mobile Crisis Teaming
- Harm Reduction in Crisis Intervention
Alternatively, the self-paced Mobile Crisis Response Team Orientation training will satisfy the minimum training requirements.
More information about billing for mobile crisis teaming can be found in this presentation from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, as well as on their Crisis Services webpage.
Digital Badging
Individuals who successfully complete the entire Mobile Crisis Response Team Training Series have the opportunity to earn a digital badge, to validate their accomplishment in fully orienting to mobile crisis teaming. Digital badges are like mini-degrees or certifications in a specific topic area, and empower earners with 24/7 digital access on resumes, websites, social media, and email signatures. If you are interested in earning a digital badge and have completed all trainings in this series, please email bhtp@uwgb.edu.
In order to earn the digital badge, all sessions in this training series must be successfully completed. Learn more about digital badging here.
The self-paced orientation course and 6 live courses are listed below. For more detailed information about each session, click on the title.
Mobile Crisis Response Team Orientation
Self-paced, Online
Fee: $0 (Members); $130.00 (Nonmembers)
Continuing Education Hours: 8.0
Course Description
This foundational, self-paced orientation training will cover topics including the purpose of mobile teaming, de-escalation techniques, trauma-informed practice, using telehealth with individuals experiencing suicidal ideation, secondary traumatic stress, harm reduction strategies, and peer support in crisis intervention. Concepts outlined in this training will be expanded upon in the 6... Read more »
Peer Support in Mobile Crisis Teams
May 6, 2024
1:00 - 4:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 (Members); $30 (Partial Members); $60 (Nonmembers)
Trainer(s): Nze Okoronta
Continuing Education Hours: 3.0
Course Description
With the roll-out of the 988 crisis call line, all 50 states committed to a behavioral health crisis system that includes three essential components: crisis call lines, mobile crisis teams, and crisis stabilization centers. In Wisconsin, as in most other states, the emerging system of care for people experiencing crisis will involve peer support services. Read more »
Harm Reduction in Crisis Intervention
May 23, 2024
8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 (Members); $30 (Partial Members); $60 (Nonmembers)
Trainer(s): Myranda Green, LLMSW
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Course Description
Harm reduction incorporates a spectrum of evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies from safer use, to managed use, to abstinence to meet individuals engaged in high-risk behavior “where they're at” and addressing symptoms along with diagnoses themselves. Learners will engage in five components during this 4-hour, virtual training including introduction to harm reduction,... Read more »
Working with Individuals at Elevated Risk for Suicide via Telehealth
June 6, 2024
12:00 - 4:00pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 (Members); $30 (Partial Members); $60 (Nonmembers)
Trainer(s): David Rozek, Ph.D.
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Course Description
Telehealth has grown exponentially in the mental health field since the start of the pandemic. Clinicians and clients both are finding advantages to telehealth at reducing barriers for some individuals. However, working with clients who are at increased risk for suicide can be challenging via telehealth as there are added difficulties in managing risk via telehealth. The focus of this course will... Read more »
Self-Awareness and Co-Regulation: Concrete Skills for Intervention in Crisis
August 29, 2024
8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 (Members); $30 (Partial Members); $60 (Nonmembers)
Trainer(s): Brian Bean
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Course Description
Situations of acute crisis can be dangerous and difficult situations in which to intervene. This training will provide participants with some concrete skills and tools to use to be able to be able to maximize your effectiveness and reduce risk. Expanding on the key themes of self-awareness and co-regulation, we will explain, discuss, and practice ways to be able to regulate yourself in these... Read more »
Substance Use in Crisis Intervention
October 9-10, 2024
8:30am - 12:30pm CST each day
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 (Members); $70 (Partial Members); $99 (Nonmembers)
Trainer(s): Joanne Tulachka, MA, LPC, CS
Continuing Education Hours: 8.0
Course Description
In this 8-hour, virtual training learners take part in an interactive training that begins with the fundamentals and definitions commonly associated with the world of substance abuse treatment. Substance abuse and mental illness (co-occurring disorders) are extremely common and influence the effectiveness of overall crisis intervention. In addition to learning commonly used screening tools and... Read more »
Mobile Crisis Teaming
October 31, 2024
8:30am - 12:30pm
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 (Members); $30 (Partial Members); $60 (Nonmembers)
Trainer(s): Liz Bartz
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Course Description
Mobile Crisis Response Teams are an essential element of an integrated crisis system and designed to engage individuals in the community rather than at an emergency department. By providing community-based response and intervention, mobile crisis teams afford individuals the opportunity to receive behavioral health stabilization and assessment in a preferred and familiar environment. This 4-hour... Read more »
Advanced Crisis Core Questions?
Our Trainer and Development Specialist, Liz Bartz, can help. Please reach out to Liz at (920) 465-2361 with your questions.