CCMI Services Overview

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 The Foundations skills workshop focuses on the building an understanding of the Spirit of MI and developing core skills, including using OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries), recognizing change talk, helping people to make Brief Action Plans, and understanding ‘resistance.’

For 12 weeks after the workshop, participants receive ongoing support, including small group practice and feedback calls, cohort-wide application to practice calls, and a series of weekly emails with resources and examples, prompting them to practice a specific skill in their work that week and then check in with a study partner or team.

 A CCMI MI trainer will work with your organization to develop a plan to provide additional skill integration support for your cohort after a Foundations of MI training.

Examples of support might include additional practice and feedback calls, MI skills demonstration recordings, or additional application to practice calls in cohorts or smaller teams to discuss new skills or questions. Foundation of MI Skills Workshop or equivalent.

MI: Going Beyond the Foundations:

Prior to the workshop, we will facilitate skills demonstration recordings with each participant so that we can assess their current grasp of foundational level MI skills.

The 2 day face-to-face workshop will go beyond foundational skills, delving deeper into the Spirit of MI, the four processes of MI and working with people who may not seem ready or interested in making changes.

Following the workshop, participants will receive a series of weekly emails with resources and examples, prompting them to practice a specific skill in their work that week and then check in with a study partner or team.

This level of training is applicable to a wide range of professionals and
peer helpers and is a foundation for additional training. It introduces
participants to the concept of health literacy and teaches them how to
use teach-back to check for understanding.

This half-day workshop introduces fundamental concepts from the
health literacy universal precautions and teaches cores skills including
how to use resources, teach-back, and ask-tell-ask.

This one-day workshop is appropriate for Educators and Leads who have opportunities to assess and enhance their organization’s health literacy program’s at a system level. It provides training in fundamental concepts from the health literacy universal precautions and teaches cores skills including how to use resources, teach-back, and ask-tell-ask. It also includes content on Plain language and design (PEMAT), health literacy and medication adherence, and health literacy assessment at organizational and community levels.

This overview highlights key concepts for informed decision making
and the foundation for working together. The workshop includes
skills practice and opportunities to consider application to practice.
It is designed for front line clinicians and public groups with a range
of backgrounds.

This workshop is designed for front line clinicians who are involved
in diagnostic or treatment decisions, and it focuses on skills needed
to create successful partnerships that support patients in making
decisions consistent with their desire to be involved and the values
that influence that decision. The workshop includes skills practice
and opportunities to consider application to practice

This workshop focuses on skills and tools like ask tell ask, communication process, conflict, Motivational interviewing core skills, and habits for empathic understanding to provide consistent two-way communication with families, patients, and colleagues. Learn about the reasons communication goes wrong and how to communicate effectively during conflict or difficult conversations.

This is an interactive skills-based workshop with time for thinking, practicing, and planning through how this could apply to your work.

This workshop, designed for a wide public and professionals, focuses
on the benefits of person- and family-centred health care and pragmatic approaches to create a person centered care system.

Providing person- and family-centred health care means including
the patient’s voice in real and substantial ways. This workshop
teaches how to think effectively about, plan for, and succeed at
engaging people and families for practice improvement.

See description above, under “Informed Decision Making”

CCMI is happy to collaborate with you to plan customized workshops
with skills and concepts ranging from basic to advanced.

See description under “Person- and Family-Centred Health Care”

Use the BCW to do a Capability, Opportunity, Motivation and Behavioural analysis of a target population. Learn a comprehensive research based approach to designing behavioural interventions.

CCMI provides consultation with leadership, front line clinicians,
self-management support champions, patients, and families in order to develop or enhance their services in a range of areas. A consultation will help to achieve the following objectives:
1) Define current state
2) Describe goals
3) Develop a work plan that factors in opportunities and constraints
to achieve desired goals
4) Support system redesign process
5) Plan for sustainability

The workshop is for front-line clinicians who need skills for
screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for alcohol,
drug, and/or tobacco use. This is a customized consultation. Prior to
booking workshop dates, your organization will work together with
a CCMI trainer to determine an area of focus and which screening
tools and skills are most appropriate for your cohort.

CCMI is happy to collaborate with you to plan customized skill
workshops and webinars to meet the needs of your organization.
Examples might include

• A person- and family-centred care webinar series or workshop
  that includes and overview of guidelines or requirements that
  are specific to your state or province.
• A health literacy workshop and for high-school counsellors that focusses on how to give information about specific illnesses that are prevalent in the population.
• Or a motivational interviewing workshop for corrections officers.

This workshop will prepare educators to deliver the Brief Action Planning Face-to-Face Workshop (see Brief Action Planning tab)

·       Successful completion of a 16 week Train the Trainer Preparation Program (including an application).

·       Current BAP Trainer Recognition (or provisional recognition

·       Successful completion of Foundations of MI Trainer Application (including recorded skills demonstration

This workshop will prepare educators to deliver the Health Literacy Overview, the half-day Workshop for Front-Line Clinicians and the one day Workshop for Clinical Educators and Health Literacy Leads (see Health Literacy tab)