Employee Training

All Amber Lantern team members take part in a series of trainings covering best practices and techniques that promote mental health recovery and resident safety. This extensive educational program is both a core contributor to the success of Amber Lantern’s treatment programs, and a significant benefit to employees who are looking to grow their professional skillets. We have included a sampling of our training programs below. If you have questions about any of these courses please contact us!

Cognitive Adaptation Training (CAT)

CAT is an evidence-based psychosocial intervention using a motivational strengths perspective. This intervention provides in-home environmental supports to help people bypass problems in thinking and motivation, and organize their environment to function independently.

Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders (COPSD)

This training is focused on the integration of mental health and substance abuse services for individuals with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders (COPSD). These services concentrate on adopting a multi-problem viewpoint within a recovery framework.

Harm Reduction

In this training, team members learn how to define harm reduction, recognize key principles and goals of harm reduction and identify the various reason why harm reduction is necessary and more about specific harm reduction interventions and techniques.

Mental Health First Aid

This course teaches participants how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The evidence behind the program demonstrates that it helps trainees identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

Motivational Interviewing (MI)

MI is a person-centered approach that engages individuals' intrinsic motivation to change toward healthier behavior. MI practitioners use a set of specific, teachable techniques within a non-judgmental, non-confrontational atmosphere to increase individuals' awareness of the problems and of the consequences and risks associated with the unhealthy behavior in question.

Ask About Suicide (ASK)

ASK provides participants with an overview of the basic epidemiology of suicide and suicidal behavior, including risk and protective factors. Participants are trained to recognize warning signs—behaviors and characteristics that might indicate elevated risk for suicidal behavior—and the initial intervention steps to support a person they think might be at risk for suicide.

Verbal de-escalation

Participants are taught to de-escalate volatile situations using a logical, sequential format that leads the person in crisis from the reactive part of the brain to the reasoning part of the brain to resolve the triggering event.

Want to learn more? Whether you are a prospective team member, or looking for a residential treatment program, our team is happy to answer your questions! Please visit our contact page to reach out.