Find opportunities to learn more about trauma-informed care
July 2026
July 1st
5pm - 6:15pm
Talk Saves Lives: An Introduction to Suicide Prevention in the Construction Industry is a version of AFSP’s flagship suicide prevention education program tailored for the construction industry. This presentation covers the scope of this leading cause of death in the construction industry, what the research has found to be the warning signs and risk factors of suicide, and the strategies that prevent it.
July 1st
7pm - 8pm
Finding Hope: Guidance for Supporting Those at Risk
Whether you are a family member, close friend, co-worker, neighbor, or other caring person of someone with lived experience, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention wants to help you understand and navigate this process. This program was designed to provide information, resources, and practical guidance on how to support someone in your life with lived experience of suicide.
July 2nd
11am - 12pm
While consistently focused on helping others, professionals can experience challenges in practicing self-care for themselves. This brief, interactive conversation is an opportunity to intentionally prioritize worker wellness, review practices, and experience the benefits of intentional and simple self-care actions.
July 2nd
12pm - 1pm
Ethics, Values, and Boundaries in Peer Recovery Support Work
This training builds a strong foundation in ethical practice, values, and professional boundaries in peer support roles, highlighting core competencies, ethical decision-making, and the importance of maintaining healthy boundaries.
July 7th
10am - 12pm
High Stress Coping & Substance Use: A Toxic Combination
This interactive dialogue will look at how chronic stress can alter brain chemistry, make individuals more susceptible to substance use, and will further review stress-reducing activities for healthy ways of managing stress and its impact on wellness.
July 7th
1pm - 3pm
Professional boundaries set the parameters of effective and appropriate interaction between professionals and the people they serve, protecting clients and patients as well as providers. This interactive course will discuss professionalism and ethics, dual relationships, and how to build a safe working environment.
July 7th, 9th, 14th, 16th, 21st, 23rd, 28th, 30th
1pm - 4:15pm
*must attend all dates*
July 2026 Prevention Education Series
Join OCAM for this 8-part series for new (less than one year, but have RA status) prevention professionals. Participants are expected to attend all sessions and will receive 24 CEUs to be used toward an OCPSA credential.Participants will gain knowledge of basic prevention theory and its application in communities.
July 7th
3pm - 4pm
Federal Grant Policy Update: Implications for Prevention and Behavioral Health
This session will provide an overview of the proposed revisions to 2 CFR Part 200, Uniform Guidance, and examine how they could affect federal grantmaking, grant oversight, and funding for prevention, behavioral health, and community-based programs. Participants will gain an understanding of key provisions within the proposed rule, discuss potential implications for grant recipients, and learn about the federal public comment process before the July 13, 2026, deadline.
July 7th
3pm - 4:15pm
Breaking the Cycle: Leading Well Without Burning Out
This session blends neuroscience, storytelling, and practical strategies to explore the myth of martyrdom in leadership and introduce tools to help leaders reclaim their focus, energy, and humanity.
July 7th
6pm - 7pm
MI on the Fly: Live Consultation
MI on the Fly is an online and interactive consultation series designed for behavioral health providers to obtain immediate feedback and coaching on the utilization and integration of Motivational Interviewing (MI) into practice. Each session will provide an open forum for participants’ questions, case study discussions, and program development as it relates to the effective delivery of MI-related techniques and micro-skills. (Occurs the first Tuesday of each month from May - August 2026.)
July 8th
9am - 12:15pm
Family Matters - Incorporating Family into Substance Use Treatment
This training will focus on the importance of involving family in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, highlighting the benefits for both the individual and the family unit. Participants will gain an understanding of how family systems function and explore common characteristics of families affected by SUDs, the impact of SUD on family dynamics, and how family-based interventions can enhance treatment retention and support recovery efforts.
July 8th
9am - 12:30pm
Healing at the Intersections: Trauma Informed Care Across Lifespan & Identity
This engaging training session is designed to deepen understanding and application of trauma-informed care (TIC) through an intersectional approach. Rooted in principles of safety, trust, empowerment, and cultural responsiveness, this dynamic session explores how trauma impacts individuals across different life stages and identities.
July 8th
1pm - 2:30pm
This interactive workshop will provide friends, family, and others with information on how to recognize and respond to suicide risk, with an additional focus on reducing access to lethal means – especially firearms. Participants learn to talk with someone who might have these thoughts in a collaborative, non-judgmental, and supportive manner.
July 8th, 15th, 22nd
2pm - 3pm
Creating Calm: Effective Engagement With People Who Are Distressed
Many of the people we interact with are actively experiencing high levels of distress. This may be due to health conditions, poverty, family challenges, or other life stressors. The Creating Calm training series will focus on attendees’ experiences and provide concrete tools for engaging with clients in distress.
July 8th
3pm
Rooting in Relationality: Indigenous Cultural and Traditional Healing Practices
This webinar will offer broad insights into Indigenous worldviews, values, and healing practices. More specifically, we will discuss the impacts of historical trauma and generational grief, diverse contexts and considerations for healing modalities, allyship, cultural safety, and referral resources and guidance.
July 9th
10am - 12pm
Co-Occuring MEB and Substance Use: What Prevention Needs to Know
This training provides prevention professionals with a research-informed understanding of how mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) health disorders commonly co-occur with substance use across the lifespan. Participants will explore trends, risk and protective factors, and the shared drivers behind co-occurring disorders as well as strategies to address mental health and substance use simultaneously.
July 9th
10am - 12pm
Beyond Self-Care: Rethinking Care at the Organizational Level
When helping professionals are overextended, the effects ripple outward: burnout, turnover, and a decline in the quality of care provided to those who need it most. This session reframes self-care as a collective goal, offering a systems-oriented framework that connects personal, professional, organizational, and community-level strategies.
July 9th
10am
Best Practices for Supporting Families Affected by SUD
This training session will address the critical intersection of trauma and substance use disorders through a comprehensive and transformative approach. By recognizing the profound impact of trauma on individuals with substance use disorders, this session will inspire participants to implement trauma-informed care principles, enhance treatment outcomes, and promote holistic recovery.
July 9th
1pm - 2:15pm
Caring for Others, Planning for You: Financial Tools for Changemakers
This webinar provides practical financial tools and habits to help you feel more confident, prepared, and in control of your future, even in demanding and unpredictable work in a supportive, judgment-free environment. Participants will leave with simple, actionable steps to strengthen financial well-being and resilience.
July 9th
1pm - 2:30pm
Smarter Prevention Through Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
Substance misuse prevention professionals will learn how the principles, tools, and approaches to (CQI) can optimize their prevention work. Additionally, we will discuss how to incorporate the key tools of CQI – including the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle– into all phases of your prevention work to ensure programs are efficient, effective, and stay on track.
July 9th
1pm - 4:15pm
Responding to Resistance and Focusing on Change
Participants will learn to distinguish resistance and discord from sustain talk and practice evidence-informed techniques to guide individuals toward intrinsic motivation and readiness for change.
July 10th
9am - 3pm
*in-person - West Chester OH* *free to attend, $32 for CEUs*
4th Annual Black Mental Health Summit
Join Black Women Cultivating Change for a powerful day of education, connection, and healing at the 4th Annual Black Mental Health Summit—a transformative experience designed to uplift, inform, and empower our community. This year’s summit brings together dynamic speakers, mental health professionals, and community leaders to engage in meaningful conversations on critical topics affecting Black communities, including Maternal Mental Health; Veterans Mental Health; Cultural Trauma & Healing; and Suicide Prevention & Awareness.
July 10th
9:30am - 12:30pm
Using SBIRT to Address Substance Use in Mental Health Settings
This interactive learning event will review intersections of psychoactive substances and mental illness, impact on mental illness diagnosis and treatment, and benefits of how SBIRT (screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment) can augment successful outcomes for individuals with co-occurring disorders.
July 13th
1pm - 2:30pm
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer: the three simple moves anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. The QPR mission is to reduce suicidal behaviors and save lives by providing innovative, practical, and proven suicide prevention training to empower all people, regardless of their background, to make a positive difference in the life of someone they know.
July 14th
10am - 12pm
A Person-Centered Approach to Identifying and Addressing Stressors that Increase Substance Use
This interactive web session will review and practice person-centered approaches, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and trauma-responsive means that providers can use to engage and empower individuals to work through change processes and effectively sustain their own recovery.
July 14th
10am - 12pm
Breaking Barriers - The History and Stigma of Medication-Based Recovery
In this training, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of opioids, including their historical use as curatives, the evolution of early treatment programs, the rise of opioid addiction in the United States, societal responses, and the development of modern medications for opioid use disorder. The training will also address the harmful effects of provider-based stigma on recovery outcomes, and how to reflectively identify one’s own personal and professional beliefs.
July 14th
12pm - 1pm
Women and Substance Use Disorder (SUD): Treatment Success and Barriers for Care
Participants will explore how stigma, fear of child welfare involvement, and systemic inequalities can create barriers to treatment access and continuity of care. This training underscores the growing body of evidence supporting integrated treatment approaches that combine SUD services with mental health care, trauma-specific interventions, and primary healthcare, demonstrating improved outcomes in treatment retention, maternal-child health, and recovery stability.
July 14th
1pm - 2:30pm
Community Engagement Strategies: Meet Them Where They Are
Participants will explore real-world approaches that engage communities through everyday spaces, local events, shared experiences, and culturally relevant touchpoints. Drawing from prevention efforts across multiple communities, this session will provide practical, actionable strategies to increase engagement, strengthen partnerships, and create meaningful impact.
July 14th
1pm - 3pm
Foundations of Trauma Informed Care - Key Concepts and Core Principles
This training provides an overview of the key concepts, research foundations, and core principles of trauma-informed care to strengthen understanding and application across service disciplines. Participants will explore the prevalence and impact of trauma; the neurobiological and behavioral effects of adverse experiences; and strategies for creating environments that promote safety, trust, empowerment, and collaboration to gain insight into how trauma-informed approaches enhance person-centered care, reduce re-traumatization, and support resilience and recovery.
July 14th, 1pm - 3pm & July 15th & 17th, 10am - 12pm
*3-part webinar, note dates and times*
Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based, conversation model for evoking and enhancing intrinsic motivation to change behaviors. In this video-conversation, participants will discuss the core components of this model and practice using the skills of Motivational Interviewing, particularly in the context of substance use behavior change(s).
July 14th
2pm
Driving Change: K-12 Distracted Driving Prevention Programs for Your Community
Join this NVFC webinar to learn about K-12 programs that can be implemented immediately into your community to change attitudes and behaviors surrounding distracted driving.
July 14th
2pm - 3:30pm
Meet Them Where They Are: Real-World Prevention That Drives Behavior Change
Drawing from real-world prevention efforts across multiple communities, this webinar will explore strategies that meet people in their daily lives, at events, in shared spaces, and through culturally relevant touchpoints. Participants will gain practical, actionable approaches to increase engagement, strengthen partnerships, and drive meaningful impact without relying solely on traditional outreach methods. (IC&RC 2 & 4).
July 15th
9am - 12:15pm
Ethics and Boundaries: Maintaining Professional Integrity in Behavioral Healthcare
Maintaining high ethical standards and clear professional boundaries is essential for behavioral healthcare professionals to ensure client safety, foster trust, and promote effective treatment outcomes. This training explores the ethical principles, legal requirements, and practical strategies that guide professional conduct in diverse clinical settings.
July 15th
9:30am - 10:30am
Columbia Protocol Training (C-SSRS) for Community Members
This webinar will provide an introduction to the CSSRS as a screening tool for suicide prevention. The Columbia Protocol, also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), supports suicide risk assessment through a series of simple, plain-language questions that anyone can ask. The answers help users identify whether someone is at risk for suicide, assess the severity and immediacy of that risk, and gauge the level of support that the person needs.
July 15th
10am - 11am
Youth Voices on Mental Health: Summer, School, and What Comes Next
A panel of young advocates who will share their perspectives and experiences on mental health, prevention, and youth leadership. The discussion will explore strategies for supporting youth well-being during the summer months and navigating the challenging transition back to school.
July 15th
10am - 12pm
Substance Use Across the Lifespan: Prevention, Treatment, and Community Response
This session explores how substance use risks evolve from adolescence through older adulthood. Participants examine prevention strategies, treatment considerations, and community responses that support wellness across the lifespan.
July 15th
11am - 4pm
Crisis Response Planning (CRP) Workshop
A free training on Crisis Response Planning, a brief intervention to reduce suicide risk for individuals experiencing crisis.
July 16th
9am - 11am
*in-person registration option - The Plains, OH - available*
Holding Small Hearts: Supporting Grieving Children and Teenagers - virtual option
Presenters Nancy Baur and Dr. Kailey Bradley of The Ohio Bereavement Collaborative will provide insight, information, and compassionate guidance for supporting grieving children, teens, and families. Both presenters have backgrounds in hospice care and crisis support, and have passion and support for guiding families through the tumultuous landscape of loss. (online registration) (in-person registration)
July 16th
1pm - 2:15pm
Driving Prevention Success: Navigating Evidence-Based Criteria and Registries
In this session, participants will discuss how evidence-based strategies are defined, examine existing national prevention registries, and provide feedback on features and information desired in the future Ohio’s Evidence-Based Prevention and Early Intervention Registry to best serve prevention professionals.
July 16th
3pm - 4:15pm
Retired jail veteran 1st Lt. Gary F. Cornelius draws from his 2024 book Stressed Out: Strategies for Living and Working in Corrections, Third Edition, to explore the realities of stress in a corrections career. This webinar focuses on key challenges such as retaining staff who are struggling, preventing burnout, and helping both leadership and front-line supervisors support their teams and families in healthy, constructive ways.
July 17th
9am - 4pm
*in-person event - Columbus OH*
Building Better Lives: Brain-Based, Trauma Informed Approach
This interactive training introduces the core principles of trauma-informed, brain-based practice and their impact on behavior, learning, and resilience. Participants gain practical tools to create supportive environments, strengthen relationships, and respond to stress and trauma effectively.
July 21st
9am - 10:30am
Reinforcing Recovery: A Practical Introduction to Contingency Management
Contingency Management (CM) is a well-established, evidence-based intervention for treating a range of substance use disorders, supported yet it is underutilized doe to misconceptions, implementation challenges, and systems-level barriers. This training provides an overview of CM, practical strategies for implementing CM in treatment settings, and addressing common barriers, offering a foundation for expanding person-centered, outcomes-driven care.
July 21st
11:30am - 1pm
Alcohol Use Among Adolescents: Emerging Trends, Resilience, and Effective Responses in the Midwest
Participants will examine how alcohol affects adolescent brain development, how trauma and mental health challenges heighten risk, and why early drinking patterns have long‑term consequences. The session will outline effective prevention and treatment approaches, including school‑based and family‑centered models, and will address common barriers to care. Participants will leave with practical strategies to strengthen youth engagement, support families and schools, and build resilience among diverse young people across the Midwest.
July 21st
12pm - 1:30pm
Effectiveness of Telehealth Services to Treat Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Settings
This webinar will focus on the benefits of integrating behavioral health and primary care using telehealth, the use of telehealth for evaluation and diagnosis, case consultation, treatment, medication management, continuing care, and provider education, and expanded opportunities for underserved areas to increase access to behavioral and mental health services via telehealth.
July 21st
1pm - 3pm
Unlocking Recovery: Medications and the Brain’s Role in Addiction
This training offers healthcare professionals a deeper understanding of how chronic substance use reshapes the brain and drives addictive behaviors, exploring critical brain regions and discovering how changes in these areas correspond to the stages of addiction. Through this lens, attendees will gain insights to better support individuals navigating the challenges of addiction.
July 21st
1pm - 3pm
Strengthening Your Foundation: Collaborating Across Systems for Sustainable Prevention
This training is designed to help experienced substance use prevention professionals move beyond traditional capacity building and sector-based partnerships by focusing on how prevention can be embedded within complex, often unfamiliar systems—such as healthcare, mental health, education, business, and civic institutions.
July 21st & 22nd
9am - 4pm
SMART Recovery Facilitator Trainings
Self Management and Recovery Training (SMART) is an evidenced-informed recovery method grounded in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), that supports people with substance dependencies or problem behaviors to: build and maintain motivation; cope with urges and cravings; manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; and live a balanced life.
July 22
9am - 10am
Beyond the Birthdate - Treating Substance Use in Older Adults
This training increase will provide participants with an understanding of the unique factors that contribute to substance use in later life, including physical health changes, loss, social isolation, and medication interactions, and the role of societal and internalized stigma on help-seeking behaviors and engagement in treatment.
July 22nd & 29th
11:30am - 1pm
This two-part training series is designed to equip helping professionals with strategies to recognize, manage, and prevent the negative emotional and physical effects of exposure to trauma and suffering, helping providers rebuild resilience and sustain their capacity to deliver high-quality care.
July 22nd
1pm - 2pm
Starting Culturally Affirming Therapy: A Guide for BIPOC Individuals
Therapy doesn’t have to be one-size-fits-all, or a clinical box that you have to force yourself into; it can, and should, be tailored to you and your needs. Join Mental Health America for a live panel conversation with BIPOC therapists where they will help you consider how therapy could benefit your mental health and well-being.
July 22nd
1pm - 4:15pm
Restorative Practices in the Mental & Behavioral Health Field - Implications on Access and Services
This training provides participants with tools to enhance intrapersonal engagement and organizational health using trauma-informed approaches that support belonging, individual agency, and accountability.
July 22nd
2:30pm - 4pm
Care management and care coordination are essential approaches to improve continuity of care, engagement and health outcomes for individuals living at the intersection of serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and homelessness. Participants will examine core components of care coordination, integrating the voices of lived experience and peer support, and trauma-informed, responsive engagement strategies that improve trust and collaboration.
July 23rd
9am - 10:30am
From Evidence to Action: Implementing Contingency Management (CM) into Practice
This training provides a comprehensive overview of CM, including its behavioral foundations in operant conditioning, the neurobiological mechanisms that explain its effectiveness, and practical strategies for implementing CM across varied treatment settings.
July 23rd
1pm - 2:30pm
Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and Eating Disorders (EDs)
This interactive webinar will explore the intersection of SUDs and EDs, examine how trauma, emotional dysregulation, neurobiology, and social factors that influence health contribute to the development and maintenance of these co-occurring disorders. highlighting shared risk factors, screening considerations, and evidence-based integrated treatment approaches.
July 24th
10am -12pm
Group Facilitation Skills for Alcohol and Other Substance Use Counselors
This interactive learning community conversation focuses on the development of groups and the use of groups as a method of intervention. Emphasis will be placed on group work vs. case work in a group, and the skills necessary to facilitate groups. Prior group facilitation experience is a plus and is not required.
July 24th
3pm - 4pm
The Effectiveness of Motivational Approaches with Domestic Violence and Justice-Involved Individuals
Motivational Interviewing is associated with increased attendance, treatment adherence, motivation for change, and improved behavioral and attitudinal outcomes, and is particularly effective for individuals with low readiness to change and those in the early stages of change. This is particularly relevant in enhancing services for researchers, clinicians, supervision officers, and administrators seeking to enhance services for individuals convicted of crimes, including domestic violence.
July 27th
2pm - 3pm
While consistently focused on helping others, professionals can experience challenges in practicing self-care for themselves. This brief, interactive conversation is an opportunity to intentionally prioritize worker wellness, review practices, and experience the benefits of intentional and simple self-care actions.
July 28th
9:30am - 1:30pm
Medication Supported Recovery (MSR): Moving Past Stigma to Inspire Hope
Review different types of MSR approaches and the opportunities MSR can present for achieving recovery from alcohol and opioid use disorders. Examine the impacts of personal bias and stigma and the importance of recovery-oriented language and positive communications skills to support clients on their recovery journey.
July 28th
11:30am - 1pm
The Seven Challenges: Foundations and Practice of Mastery Counseling
This interactive, skills-based webinar introduces participants to the core principles of the Seven Challenges, a holistic and comprehensive evidence-based counseling program developed specifically for adolescents, and the Mastery Counseling approach that underpins the model. Participants will have opportunities to observe, practice, and apply Mastery Counseling skills commonly used in substance use treatment settings when working with adolescents.
July 28th
3pm - 4:15pm
Integrating Pets into Survivor-Centered Care
This webinar will explore the powerful role pets play in human health and emotional resilience, the connection between animal cruelty and family violence, and innovative strategies to incorporate pets into supportive services.
July 29th
10am - 12pm
Loneliness, Loss, and Substance Use Later in Life
Explores how isolation, grief, and major life transitions can contribute to substance use among older adults. Participants examine prevention strategies and supportive interventions that promote connection, purpose, and wellness.
July 29th
1pm - 2:30pm
Vital Cog: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace
The VitalCog in the Workplace program trains employees at all levels of an organization to recognize the critical importance of suicide prevention, while creating opportunities for open conversations and access to resources within the workplace.
July 29th
1pm - 3pm
Lethal Means Safety (LMS) Workshop
Learn evidence-based strategies for voluntary secure storage of firearms and other lethal means to help reduce suicidal behavior among veterans and other firearm users.
July 29th
2pm - 3:30pm
Join hosts ReLink.org and Eyes Up Appalachia for the latest invitation into Vulnerabilities at the Intersection: ACEs, Human Trafficking and the Male Experience.
July 30th
1pm - 2:15pm
Grounding in the Storm: Using Emotional Regulation to Tend to Our Responses
Emotional regulation helps us identify what is happening in the body and use strategies to shift back to a calmer, more balanced state. This session will explore the science behind dysregulation and provide practical tools to help you stay centered, focused, and thoughtful when the storm is raging outside.