By registering for this training you are committing to attend both sessions:
1/7/2025 from 1pm-4pm &
1/8/2025 from 1pm-4pm
One of the key ingredients in the Ohio START program is Family Team Meetings (FTM). This training will describe the core principles, components, and skills needed to successfully facilitate FTMs. This training is required for staff that will take active role in FTMs including: START CW supervisors, START CW caseworkers, FPM, and BH Supervisors/service coordinators.

Join us to discuss the role the family plays in human trafficking. At times family members and foster parents have been the driving force behind keeping someone out of a trafficking situation. Other times, they are the cause. In this session we will help you better understand human trafficking, how to spot it and what to do when you do. We will go over the basics but focus on familial trafficking specifically. We will share an updated screening tool that will help you identify youth and families that may need additional resources. Finally, we will end with a discussion on how we might move from a reactive to a preventative approach with the family to ensure the best option for a family member is not to offer access to their child for sex or labor in exchange for drugs, rent or other things of commercial value.

This introductory course provides staff new to the Ohio START program with the basics necessary to begin working with families. It includes a brief review of key aspects of START including eligibility, timelines, roles and responsibilities, and engaging clients and family serving agencies. Staff will also need to complete the full day Foundations 4 training when next available. This is not intended for anyone that has already attended Foundations 4.

SUPERVISORS ONLY: This 1-hour Professional Learning Community (PLC) for supervisors will meet bi-monthly. Based on input from the November 2024 Consortium meetings and the subsequent survey, these networking sessions will include a specific topic but will also allow time to discuss current challenges, suggestions and offer any pertinent updates. The topics are based on your input however, they may be subject to change depending on other issues that arise throughout the year. This is open to both PCSA and BH supervisors participating in Ohio START.

This THREE day virtual training will be held January 22, 2025 through January 24, 2025. Participants will learn the philosophy, values and constructs of the Nurturing Parenting Programs. Participants must attend all 3 days to receive credit. It will be broken into 3 2-hour sections each day. 9:30-11:30 will be online virtual, 11:30-1:30 will be time for self-guided reading and reflection activities and then will return to online virtual 1:30-3:30.

Deadline to register is January 8, 2025.

This training is recommended for PCSA caseworkers, family peer mentors, behavioral health providers and anyone else in the county that may be working with Ohio START families.

By registering for this training you are committing to attend both sessions:
1/27/2025 from 9am-12pm &
1/28/2025 from 9am-12pm
This two day, training from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm focuses on behavioral health treatment provider strategies within START that support behavioral health treatment and child welfare outcomes. This training is REQUIRED for PCSA START Supervisors and Administrators; BH treatment provider agency(ies) administrators, supervisors/service coordinators; FPM hiring BH agency supervisor (if applicable). START local teams should attend together and will have the opportunity to discuss how the strategies will be implemented in their community.

By registering for this training you are committing to attend both sessions:
2/5/2025 from 1pm-4pm &
2/6/2025 from 1pm-4pm
The training is focused specifically on the family peer mentor recovery support process along with hands-on examination of the structure and support that needs to be in place for recruitment, hiring, training and preparation of the family peer mentor, including: clarifying the family peer mentor function and role, preparing the way for working with team members, and providing supervision and support. The training provides Ohio START teams an opportunity to assess their implementation and receive hands-on technical support to develop an action plan for moving their program forward. This training is REQUIRED for PCSA START administrators and supervisors and Hiring Agency administrators and supervisors (if applicable). Caseworkers and family peer mentors should NOT attend.

This training will underscore the relationship between traumatic experiences and substance use disorders. The curriculum will also address the barriers commonly identified when servicing persons who confront the disease of addiction and have a history of trauma. Specific research-supported paradigms will be offered to assist professionals who serve this population.

By registering for this training you are committing to attend both sessions:
2/12/2025 from 1pm-4pm &
2/13/2025 from 1pm-4pm
This training includes an overview of the Children's Trauma Assessment Center Trauma Screening Checklist (CTAC). We will also look at how to assess the trauma exposure of their parents, using the Adverse Childhood Experience survey (ACE). This training is required for staff administering the CTAC and/or ACE including: START CW caseworker, FPM, CW supervisors, and BH Supervisors/service coordinators.

By registering for this training you are committing to attend both sessions:
2/20/2025 from 9am-12pm &
2/21/2025 from 9am-12pm
This training will assist participants with how to use the evidence-based screening tool (UNCOPE), interpret the results, provide feedback to the parent and offer recommendations to seek further assessment for treatment services. This training is required for Ohio START caseworkers, family peer mentors, supervisors, non-START CW staff responsible for administering the UNCOPE, suggested for BH supervisors/service coordinators and optional for CW administrators and BH administrators.