Serving Specific Populations
These modules offer specialized trainings tailored for behavioral health providers in Colorado, focusing on treating distinct demographic groups such as children and adolescents, pregnant persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, justice-involved individuals, and culturally diverse populations. These modules equip providers with targeted strategies and culturally competent approaches to address unique needs and challenges faced by each population, aiming to enhance the quality and accessibility of behavioral health services statewide.

"I Can Help You!" Serving Populations with Complex Behavioral Health Needs
An overview of complex needs BH providers may encounter, best practices to utilize and challenges they may experience when serving populations who have one or more complex needs.
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Building the Bench for Early Childhood Intervention
An overview of key principles of early childhood mental health and strategies for applying these principles to working with young children (0 to five years) and their families, including how to approach assessment and case conceptualization.
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Increasing Access and Expanding Organizational Capacity for individuals with Co-Occurring Disabilities
An overview of working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including evidence-based practices, fundamental building blocks to deliver effective services and efforts the state is making to enhance access.
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Medications Assisted Treatment in Jails/Prisons: Supporting Re-Entry and Recovery
An overview of current policy and practice standards for medication assisted treatment (MAT) in carceral settings and key components to support effective MAT implementation in carceral settings, with a focus on re-entry transitions.
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Models for Engaging Transgender Youth
An overview of transgender youth and best practices to engage youth in substance use treatment programs, and evidence-based interventions and harm reduction strategies to support transgender youth.
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Opening the Door to Residential Addiction Treatment
An overview of residential addiction treatment levels of care, the changes to these levels in the 4th edition of the ASAM Criteria, and lessons learned by the trainer after providing 15 years of specialty addiction treatment.
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The Intersection Between Behavioral Health and Law Enforcement: Building Strong Relationships to Support the Community
An overview of the steps for clinicians and behavioral health professionals to proactively build positive relationships with law enforcement in their community, including how it benefits a clinical practice and improves clients outcomes.
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The Intersection of Behavioral Health and Child Welfare: Working Together to Improve Outcomes for Children, Youth, and Families
An introduction to the child welfare system and how it intersects with BH, Evidence Based Practices Colorado's child welfare system is focusing on, and how you can work together with child welfare to meet desired outcomes.
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Treatment Approaches for Pregnant Persons with Opioid Use Disorder
An overview of key principles of early childhood mental health and strategies for applying these principles to working with young children (0 to five years) and their families, including how to approach assessment and case conceptualization.
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