Want to learn more about recovery or peer support? Then this is the training for you! This 4 hour training covers the basics when is comes to recovery, the concepts, guiding principles, building a wellness toolbox and the role of peer support. This introductory training is designed for those who want to know more about recovery, those who are new to recovery or want to learn more about the recovery movement.

• Section 1 – Preparing for Training
• Section 2 – Introduction and Expectations
• Section 3 – What is Recovery?
• Section 4 – Knowing your own recovery
• Section 5 – What is Peer Support?
• Section 7 – Maintaining your own recovery
• Section 8 – Wrap up and Resources
  Handouts, Homework, and Agenda

Register for the training on PAL Passport Project page.

This training is also required for Trail 4 of the Trailheads Project.

This training does not qualify for CEUs.

This training was developed in part under Statewide Consumer Networking Grant # 1H79SM062965-01 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Interviews, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.

Course is designed for the development and enhancement of individual and network peer leadership and advocacy skills. How do we get a seat at the table, have our voice be heard and create real change.

Register for the training on PAL Passport Project page.

PAL Passport eligible

Learn how to bring MPN resources to your community as an affiliate. Affiliates can share resources, coordinate efforts, provide a unified voice, and offer training and presentations. Each affiliate brings a unique focus and perspective to the organization as a whole. MPN has a solid positive reputation in the state and affiliates can leverage that.

Register for the training on PAL Passport Project page.

This training does not qualify for CEUs.

This online training will help you understand the process for writing an Advanced Psychiatric Directive (APD) and the laws concerning them in Montana.

Register for the training on PAL Passport Project page.

The form and instructions below were created by Disability Rights Montana, based on the mental health care advance directives law, Title 53,Part 13, of the Montana Code Annotated (2012). The law says any signed, dated notarized document that expresses a person’s clear intention that it serve as a advance directive form, and no person may be required to use any particular form for creating a directive. Advance Directives may be entirely handwritten and out of state Advance Directives are valid if they meet Montana legal requirements.

This training is approved for the PAL Passport Project. This training qualifies for 1.5 CEUs for CBHPSS.

Download: Advance Psychiatric Directives Document   Instructions

PAL Passport Eligible

Learn about the basics of how boards function, what the expectations are, and how to be a leader and advocate for the recovery movement including:

• Why to join a board or council
• Roberts Rules of Order
• Effective communication skills
• Using Recovery Language
• Solution Oriented
• Being Assertive vs Aggressive

Register for the training on PAL Passport Project page.

This training qualifies for .75 CEUs for CBHPSS.

PAL Passport eligible

It is vital to develop win-win partnerships with other organizations to find ways to meet the needs of consumers and change systems. Join us to learn how you can build partnerships as a leader and advocate. This training will cover how to find common ground, build trust, and produce win-win results.

Register for the training on PAL Passport Project page.

This training qualifies for .75 CEUs for CBHPSS.

This 8 hour interactive training is an intrinsic approach to trauma-informed peer support. Over the course of the training, trainees will learn how to identify trauma, its effects, promote positive self-care strategies and gain an understanding of how peer support can be used in the healing process. Those with their own traumatic experiences will have the opportunity to grow their understanding of how to use those experiences to connect and support peers who are earlier in their trauma recovery journey.

Goals

• Gain an understanding of trauma
• Realize the effects of trauma
• Develop insight to the healing and recovery of trauma
• Learn strategies to exercise trauma-awareness in peer support

This training was developed in part under Statewide Consumer Networking Grant # 1H79SM062965-01 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Interviews, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.

Emotional CPR (eCPR) is an educational program designed to teach people to assist others through an emotional crisis by three simple steps: Connecting, Empowering and Revitalizing.

Participants will:

• Assist individuals in transforming anger and rage into passion and strength
• Inspire motivation and change
• Help others tap into their courage and power
• Reframe crisis as opportunity
• Encourage the people they serve to take steps in the direction of their dreams
• Learn the importance of taking care of themselves so that they can support others
• Facilitate the other persons access to inner wisdom

14 CEUs available for attending the entire training

For more information, visit our eCPR page or contact Amanda.

Montana’s Peer Network believes in the power of telling a recovery story. This training was created due to the many requests by our members to develop a simple, straight forward program to assist those in recovery in telling their story publicly.

A recovery story is very different than telling an illness-based story. A recovery story includes the celebration of overcoming, it tells of positive change and of inspiration. A recovery story is contagious to those who hear it, planting a seed of hope or a whisper of courage. In this training you will find an outline for developing your own recovery story for presentation to an audience. You do not need any previous training or experience as a public speaker. In order to tell your recovery story effectively, though, you do need to prepare. For the presenter, telling your recovery story in front of an audience can be empowering, inspiring, nerve-racking and thrilling all at the same time. Recovery stories change the lives of the listeners. Stories change the life of the presenter too.

This training includes personal reflections, educational background and an outline for telling your own story.

In response to the opioid epidemic, HB333 was passed into law as the Help Save Lives from Overdose Act. This act extends liability protections to public safety, firefighters, school nurses and any person who takes this class when administering Naloxone to a suspected overdose in the course of their duties.

Naloxone General User led training fulfills the DPHHS approved training requirement of the Act. this training requires and online session and a hands on classroom session.
30-90 Minute On-Line learning Module (please complete prior to attending the classroom session. Portal:  narcan.bestpracticemedicine.com
90 Minute Classroom Skills Training Session

Master Trainer Course and Re-certification

Completion of Part One, the online Naloxone Master Trainer course is required prior to attending a skills training session. This access will be emailed to you upon registration for the hands-on session. It can also be obtained by emailing aolson@bestpracticemedicine.com

Completion of the Naloxone Master Trainer program authorizes individuals to conduct Naloxone Training for those eligible for liability protections when administering Naloxone to a suspected opiate overdose in Montana under the 2017 Help Save Lives from Overdose Act (HB333). 

For more information or to register for training, contact Jason McNees a Helena Indian Alliance Leo Pocha Clinic (406) 443-9244.

This webinar provides a unique approach to stimulant recovery from a peer perspective, discussing what stimulant users in recovery have found most effective for their transition from chronic use to achieving long-term recovery and lasting lifestyle change. We will cover the specifics of stimulants, including statistics, traditional and emerging treatment, and the importance of perception change and a whole-person, individualized, self-directed approach that goes beyond the symptoms of stimulant use to consider and address the underlying issues that contribute to our choices and behavior.

1 CEU available

While our trauma is neither our identity nor our destiny, we often become imprisoned in the past and immobilized in our present when our experience of pain overwhelms our ability to overcome, inevitably inhibiting our hope and the possibility of future opportunity.  This 2-hour training focuses on the tools, skills, and best practices that are instrumental to intervening amid another’s crisis experience.  We learn how to divert others away from distressed thinking, and redirect them into a space of acceptance, awareness, and reflection that ignites hope, motivates self-empowerment, and inspires self-directed healing.

An outlook through a unique lens where people and populations are individualized. Humanizing each experience we have, can allow safe spaces to be developed. in giving individuals the much-needed support, connection, and room to heal and grow.
As you go through this training be expected to normalize the new status quo and develop abilities to be a positive support system through individualized humanizing and allowing transparency to occur. We will walk you through a cultural humility outlook, that’s much needed in all areas of work, life, and wellness. Specifically on the dynamics of Montana, within our Indigenous & Veteran Culture. Coming from life experience and lineage into a Universal shared space, for you to grow and learn.