Cultural Humility in Behavioral Health Care
This free, self-paced online training is designed to empower behavioral health professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to practice true cultural humility. Over approximately two hours, you’ll explore key topics such as behavioral health equity, the difference between cultural humility and cultural competence, and how implicit and explicit bias affect care delivery. Through interactive scenarios and reflection exercises, you’ll discover practical strategies for fostering inclusive, sensitive, and equitable behavioral health care. Upon completion you’ll be eligible to earn 2 Continuing Education (CE) credits and download your certificate at no cost.
Important Note for Washington State Professionals:
This course helps meet Washington State’s continuing education requirements in Health Equity for licensed behavioral health professionals.
Empowering Recovery: Ethics and Shared Decision-Making in Behavioral Health
This free, self-paced online training equips behavioral health professionals with the knowledge and skills to integrate ethical practice and collaborative decision-making into everyday care. Over approximately two hours, you’ll explore essential topics such as ethical principles in behavioral health, shared decision-making models, the role of peers in supporting person-centered care, and strategies for navigating complex or ambiguous situations. Through real-world scenarios and guided reflection, you’ll gain practical tools to strengthen therapeutic relationships, support client autonomy, and enhance recovery-oriented practice. Upon completion, you’ll be eligible to earn 2 Continuing Education (CE) credits and download your certificate at no cost.
Important Note for Washington State Professionals:
This course helps meet Washington State’s continuing education requirements in Law and Ethics for licensed behavioral health professionals.
Person-Centered Care in SUD Settings: Whole-Person Care
This course introduces the foundations of person-centered care in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and services. Learners will explore what it means to support the whole person by integrating physical health, mental health, and social factors into care.
The course examines how values, attitudes, and bias can influence everyday practice and highlights approaches that promote respect, collaboration, and dignity. Participants will build awareness of how their role supports person-centered, responsive care across diverse settings.
This self-paced training is designed to be finished in approximately one hour. You have the flexibility to exit the course and return at any time to resume from where you left off. Upon completion, you’ll be eligible to earn 1 Continuing Education (CE) credit and download your certificate at no cost.
This course is part of the Advancing Person-Centered Care in Substance Use Disorder Settings series, which offers focused, standalone learning experiences that can be taken individually or as a complete set.
Person-Centered Care in SUD Settings: The Art of Assessment & Engagement
This course will highlight relational skills, self-awareness, and bias in whole-person care. The topics of checking your "baggage" and using care teams and supervision to help will be an emphasis.
In addition, this course will focus on whole-person care, as an important part of person-centered care. It will cover some of the practices care professionals can use to prepare for engaging with a person receiving care during an initial visit and during the assessment. It is not just what is asked, but how it is asked. This is called the art of assessment.
This self-paced training is designed to be finished in approximately one hour. You have the flexibility to exit the course and return at any time to resume from where you left off. Upon completion, you’ll be eligible to earn 1 Continuing Education (CE) credit and download your certificate at no cost.
This course is part of the Advancing Person-Centered Care in Substance Use Disorder Settings series, which offers focused, standalone learning experiences that can be taken individually or as a complete set.
Person-Centered Care in SUD Settings: Science of Assessment - Medical Aspects of Care
In this course, the focus shifts to the technical elements of assessment. This can sometimes feel transactional so it's important to remember the relational skills learned for engagement and building rapport in earlier courses. You will learn how to gather information to support medical necessity and help the person access the services they need to achieve their goals. This training will dive into ASAM Dimensions 1 and 2.
This self-paced training is designed to be finished in approximately one hour. You have the flexibility to exit the course and return at any time to resume from where you left off. Upon completion, you’ll be eligible to earn 1 Continuing Education (CE) credit and download your certificate at no cost.
This course is part of the Advancing Person-Centered Care in Substance Use Disorder Settings series, which offers focused, standalone learning experiences that can be taken individually or as a complete set.
Person-Centered Care in SUD Settings: The Science of Assessment - Brain Health
This course is built on The Art of Assessment & Engagement course, with the focus on the technical aspects of substance use disorder (SUD) assessment. This course will explore brain health and social drivers of health. Society has made conversations about mental health stigmatizing, particularly for persons who experience SUD.
Keeping relational skills at the top of mind, this training will dive into the tools that can be used in assessing brain health through the lens of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Dimension 3. It will also consider the impact of social stressors on brain health.
This self-paced training is designed to be finished in approximately one hour. You have the flexibility to exit the course and return at any time to resume from where you left off. Upon completion, you’ll be eligible to earn 1 Continuing Education (CE) credit and download your certificate at no cost.
This course is part of the Advancing Person-Centered Care in Substance Use Disorder Settings series, which offers focused, standalone learning experiences that can be taken individually or as a complete set.