Training
The Evolution Foundation can help you and your organization improve your capacity through a variety of trainings.
If you would like to request any of the types of trainings listed below, please fill out our training request form at the bottom of this page.
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Trauma Informed Care
Trauma, especially in childhood, can have negative lifetime results. But it doesn't have to be that way. When service providers, families, teachers, law enforcement, judicial personnel, and faith organizations become trauma-informed and provide trauma-sensitive services, we can change the course of children's lives. The Evolution Foundation has consultants and contractors who can provide tailored trainings for a variety of groups. Contact us if you would like to discuss your training needs.
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Child and Family Serving Systems
We work with your team to explore child and family serving systems, how they work, and how to navigate through them. Each of these systems works in different ways, provides different services and supports, and has different funding and goals. We will explore the following systems: children, youth, and young adult mental health; children's primary care and behavioral health integration; child welfare; children's co-occurring disorders; Head Start and childcare settings; housing and homelessness; intellectual and developmental disabilities; juvenile justice and courts; LGBTQ+ adults and older adults; LGBTQ+ youth and families; parent, infant, and early childhood mental health; school health and mental health; tribal systems of care; and young adult or caregiver substance use/misuse.
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Family Engagement and Leadership
We work with your team to explore strong family engagement and implement family-driven care where families have a meaningful decision-making role in the care of their own children and policies and procedures governing care for all children in their community, state, tribe, territory, nation. Families' primary decision-making role includes choosing supports, services, and providers; setting goals; designing and implementing programs; monitoring outcomes; partnering in funding decisions; and determining the effectiveness of all efforts to promote the mental health and well-being of children and youth. In addition to family engagement, we'll work with your team to grow and develop family members into advocates and leaders.
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Youth and Young Adult Engagement and Leadership
We work with your team to explore strong youth and young adult engagement and implement youth/young adult-guided care where youth and young adults have a meaningful role decision-making role in the care of their own children and policies and procedures governing care for all children in their community, state, tribe, territory, and nation. Families' primary decision-making role includes choosing supports, services, and providers; setting goals; designing and implementing programs; monitoring outcomes; partnering in funding decisions; and determining the effectiveness of all efforts to promote the mental health and well-being of children and youth. In addition to youth and young adult engagement, we'll work with your team to grow and develop youth and young adult members into advocates and leaders.
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Cross-System and Interagency Design, Financing, Policy, and Leadership
We work with your team to explore collaborating across systems to enhance the provision of effective services and treatment for children, youth, young adults, and families. Cross system collaboration makes services more streamlined, cohesive, and family-friendly. We'll explore cross system collaboration in Medicaid and managed care, state system leadership, and strategic planning.
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Clinical Best Practices for Children, Youth, Young Adults, and Families
We work with your team to explore how clinical best practice guidelines that help ensure that children, youth, young adults, and families receive appropriate care, services, and supports. We’ll explore best practices in early intervention and behavioral health, Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) and Community-Defined Practices, First Episode Psychosis (FEP), primary care integration, and workforce development.
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Equity, Inclusion, Cultural Humility, and Linguistic Competence
We work with your team to explore strategies to foster a culture of inclusion, address unconscious bias, increase cultural competency, and promote allyship. We can address social determinants of health, behavioral health disparities, underserved populations, CLAS (National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services) Standards, and evaluation demographic, sociopolitical, and contextual perspectives.
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Research, Evaluation and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
We work with your team to build capacity around data-informed decision-making; strategies for Continuous Quality Improvement; community-engaged evaluation and research; assessment design and testing; and cost-benefit analysis and return on investment.