KYC’s Pro­gram Train­ing Com­mit­tee: Pro­vid­ing Learn­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties for Men­tal Health Professionals

August 31, 2021

As the needs of our com­mu­ni­ties con­tin­ue to evolve, KYC pri­or­i­tizes ongo­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for our team. Our Pro­gram Train­ing Com­mit­tee helps our team gain under­stand­ing of diverse method­olo­gies, new research, and thought­ful con­sid­er­a­tions that can help our clients achieve their goals.

About the Pro­gram Train­ing Committee

KYC’s staff-led Pro­gram Train­ing Com­mit­tee selects many of the clin­i­cal train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties that KYC makes avail­able to staff through­out the year. Team mem­bers from across our pro­gram areas meet month­ly to coor­di­nate train­ing events. They also offer an annu­al sur­vey of pro­gram staff to gauge inter­est areas for fur­ther edu­ca­tion, using these iden­ti­fied top­ics for train­ings planned the fol­low­ing year. Their goal is to pro­vide rel­e­vant and inter­est­ing con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties for the team to expand their knowl­edge and help KYC bet­ter serve our com­mu­ni­ties. Addi­tion­al­ly, the Com­mit­tee pro­vides an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty for team mem­bers to con­nect with one anoth­er and build strong inter­per­son­al rela­tion­ships across teams and take lead­er­ship roles in the agency’s train­ing initiatives.

Train­ing Opportunities

After a top­ic is cho­sen, the Com­mit­tee iden­ti­fies knowl­edge­able speak­ers with exper­tise on the sub­ject to facil­i­tate the train­ing. The Com­mit­tee also part­ners with both CHBA (Com­mu­ni­ty Behav­ioral Health­care Asso­ci­a­tion) and IAO­DAP­CA (Illi­nois Alco­hol and Oth­er Drug Abuse Pro­fes­sion­al Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion) to cer­ti­fy that the train­ing events are qual­i­fied as Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion Units (CEUs), sup­port­ing ther­a­pists, clin­i­cians, and social work­ers in main­tain­ing their licen­sures. These train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties are offered at no cost to KYC team mem­bers, cre­at­ing free and con­ve­nient oppor­tu­ni­ties to earn licen­sure cred­it while direct­ly sup­port­ing clients. Train­ing events are fre­quent­ly avail­able for exter­nal providers to attend as well, and cre­ate a nat­ur­al oppor­tu­ni­ty to build rela­tion­ships with exter­nal agen­cies and com­mu­ni­ty resources. 

Recent top­ics of train­ing events include ​“Com­pas­sion Fatigue: The Cost of Car­ing”, which addressed the per­son­al stress that care providers can take on as they treat clients who are fac­ing com­plex chal­lenges, and ​“Focus­ing on Emo­tions: Trans­di­ag­nos­tic Approach to Treat­ing Com­plex Eat­ing Dis­or­ders”, a work­shop that high­light­ed ways to iden­ti­fy under­ly­ing eat­ing dis­or­ders that present as oth­er diag­noses. As addi­tion­al train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties are con­firmed, infor­ma­tion for how men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als can attend will be avail­able on our Events page.

Empow­er­ing Team Mem­bers and Encour­ag­ing Pro­fes­sion­al Growth

KYC’s employ­ee com­mit­tees like this one allow our team mem­bers to grow and build last­ing con­nec­tions out­side of their reg­u­lar job duties. We’re proud to sup­port our team mem­bers who take these steps to pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for them­selves, our teams, and oth­er men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als to bet­ter serve our com­mu­ni­ties together.

KYC team mem­bers who are inter­est­ed in join­ing the Pro­gram Train­ing Com­mit­tee can click here to connect.

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