At CCMI, we care about people having helping relationships that improve their lives. Our organization and the services that we offer are grounded in the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing, and we are dedicated to teaching skills and redesigning systems to support effective partnerships between caregivers and the people and families they serve in a variety of contexts. CCMI works with organizations to make changes to their care systems to support use of the skills and approaches being taught. For more detailed information about our services, please click on the titles below.
Brief Action Planning is a self-management support approach to help people make action plans to address the aspects of their health or situation that are most important to them. It is a practical and highly structured technique that is based on the literature and evolving understanding of what works and doesn’t to help people change.
Brief Action Planning is designed to:
• Incorporate the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (compassion, acceptance, partnership, and evocation)
• Uses a stepped care approach
• Use a person- and family-centred health care approach
• Build Self-Efficacy
• Develop skills for independent self-management
• Create concrete and realistic plans in under 10 minutes
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration | Additional Training Options To Be Combined |
Brief Action Planning Face-to-Face Workshops* | None | 6-24/ instructor | 1 day of training, followed by 2-3 hours of practice and feedback. | BAP Certification: BAP certification demonstrates a trainee’s competence in BAP skills through a structured and recorded interaction with a CCMI Standardized Patient. |
Brief Action Planning Webinar Series | None | 6-24/ instructor | 4 x 90 minute webinars over 4 weeks (6 hours total), followed by 2-3 hours of practice and feedback. | BAP Certification: BAP certification demonstrates a trainee’s competence in BAP skills through a structured and recorded interaction with a CCMI Standardized Patient. |
Brief Action Planning Online Course | None | Unlimited | Self-paced. Approximately 2 hours online modules, learning checks, and feedback followed by 2-3 hours practice and feedback. | BAP Certification: BAP certification demonstrates a trainee’s competence in BAP skills through a structured and recorded interaction with a CCMI Standardized Patient. |
* See Trainer Training tab for BAP Trainer Training Option
Motivational Interviewing is a strengths-based approach to conversations that helps draw out people’s motivation and commitment to change. It is a skill that works well for supporting people to work through ambivalence or complex situations so that they can move towards the changes that are important to them. The core skills can be learned by anyone interested in supporting others to make change.
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration |
Foundations of MI Skills Workshop:**
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. |
None | 6-12/ instructor | 2 Days face to face workshop followed by Foundations of MI Skills Practice and Feedback calls and application to practice calls and emails spread out over 12 weeks |
Foundations of MI Customized Skill Integration Support:
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. |
Foundation of MI Skills Workshop or equivalent | Depending on the scope of request | |
AVAILABLE JANUARY 2020
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. |
Foundation of MI Skills Workshop or equivalent | 6-12/ instructor | 2 Days face to face followed by Motivational Interviewing: Going Beyond the Foundations Skills Practice and feedback calls (3 x 1 hour call) |
** See Trainer Training tab for Foundations of MI Trainer Training Option
CCMI’s Health Literacy offerings emphasize the importance of being able to support patients and communicate clearly so that patients and family members can truly participate in care. Participants will gain an understating of health literacy concepts and learn practical skills for engaging with patients to ensure clear and effective communication.
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration | Additional Training Options To Be Combined |
Health Literacy Face to Face Overview:
This level of training is applicable to a wide range of professionals and |
None | Unlimited | 30-90 minutes | May be combined with other content overviews |
Health Literacy Workshop for Frontline Clinicians:
This half-day workshop introduces fundamental concepts from the |
None | 6-24/ instructor | 1/2 day (3.5 hours) | May be combined with other half-day workshops |
Health Literacy Workshop for Clinical Educators and Health Literacy Leads:
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. |
None | 6-24/ instructor | 1 day | N/A |
* See Trainer Training tab for Health Literacy Trainer Training Option
Informed decision making is a way to engage patients, clients, and peers in their own care by working in partnership with them to identify the best course of action. Training focuses on a conceptual understanding and structured approach to an informed decision making conversation. Informed decision making is a conversation about patient and family values, potential benefits and risks of available options, and possible next steps.
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration | Additional Training Options To Be Combined |
Informed Decision Making Overview:
This overview highlights key concepts for informed decision making |
None | Unlimited | 1-1.5 Hours | May be combined with other content overviews or half-day workshops |
Informed Decision Making Workshops – Professionals:
This workshop is designed for front line clinicians who are involved |
None | 6-24/ instructor | half-day (4.5 hrs) |
May be combined with other content overviews. |
Improving Interactions:
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. |
None | 6-12/ instructor | half-day (4-4.5 hrs) |
May be extended to include customized content about how to host a family meeting. |
The person- and family-centred health care workshops provide participants with concepts to guide the development of person- and family-centred health care at individual, system, and community levels. Courses offer suggestions for shared language and tips for demonstrating skills for person- and family-centred health care.
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration | Additional Training Options To Be Combined |
Person- and Family-Centred Health Care Overview:
This workshop, designed for a wide public and professionals, focuses |
None | Unlimited | 1-2 Hours | May be combined with other content overviews or half-day workshops |
Person and Family Voice in Quality Improvement:
Providing person- and family-centred health care means including |
None | 6-12/ instructor | 1 Day | N/A |
Improving Interactions:
See description above, under “Informed Decision Making” |
None | 6-12/ instructor | half-day (4-4.5 hrs) |
May be extended to include content about how to host a family meeting. |
Customized Support for Implementing Person- and Family-Centred Health Care Within Your Organization:A CCMI team member will work with the appropriate members of your organization or the people you serve to provide customized person- and family-centred health care implementation support. Examples might include skills workshops, development of curriculum, patient and family representative engagement, or quality improvement consultation. |
Depending on the scope of request |
Each of our Quality Improvement (QI) workshops builds on the Model for Improvement. Each one is customizable to your team’s needs and scope.
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration | Additional Training Options To Be Combined |
Custom Quality Improvement Skills Workshops:
CCMI is happy to collaborate with you to plan customized workshops |
Depending on the scope of request | |||
Person and Family Voice in Quality Improvement:
See description under “Person- and Family-Centred Health Care” |
None | 6-12/ instructor | 1 Day | N/A |
Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) consultation:
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. |
Depending on the scope of request | |||
QI Consultation:
CCMI provides consultation with leadership, front line clinicians, |
Depending on the scope of request |
Brief Interventions Workshops focus on teaching practical approaches for structuring conversations about health and MI-consistent ways of giving information and advice and is based on Brief Action Planning. Can be customized to focus on a specific clinical topic (ie. SBIRT for substance use, Tobacco cessation). Techniques include using an empathetic style and supporting a person’s sense of self-efficacy or optimism that they can change.
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration | Additional Training Options To Be Combined |
Brief Interventions for Engaging Patients: This workshop is for front-line clinicians who have a limited time with individuals and want to maximize engagement. It focuses on the attributes of effective communication and provides tips and approaches to enhance the work that you are already doing so that people will be motivated listen and engage openly. Participants will be taught how to use Ask-Tell-Ask to give information and advice in a way that is person-centred and more likely to lead to action. |
None | 6-24/ instructor | 1 Day (7 hours) |
N/A |
SBIRT: Skills for Addressing Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Use:
The workshop is for front-line clinicians who need skills for |
Depending on the scope of request |
Each one of our customized consultations and skill development workshops is tailored to the needs identified by the host organization.
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration | Additional Training Options To Be Combined |
Customized Consultations: CCMI can provide customized consultations based on the needs of your organization. This could include coaching, group practice and feedback, working with leadership, system redesign, case study review, materials review, and translation into practice. |
Depending on the scope of request | |||
Custom Skill Development Workshops:
CCMI is happy to collaborate with you to plan customized skill
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Depending on the scope of request |
CCMI’s Train the Trainer Courses help people who are already proficient in a content area to gain the skills and confidence to conduct learning sessions of their own. Trainees are taught by CCMI Master Trainers and are introduced to transformative learning approaches designed to help learners apply new skills in practice. Successful trainees will come away with hard copies and online access to resources for conducting their own workshops (including a PowerPoint presentation, handouts, and a customizable training plan).
CCMI Offering | Pre-Requisites | Capacity | Duration |
BAP Trainer Course:
This workshop will prepare educators to deliver the Brief Action Planning Face-to-Face Workshop (see Brief Action Planning tab) |
BAP Certification (within one year of the Train the Trainer course) | 6-12/ instructor | 2.5 Days |
Foundations of MI and BAP Skills Trainer Course Combined:This workshop will prepare educators to deliver the Foundations of MI Skills Workshop (see Motivational Interviewing tab) and the Brief Action Planning Face-to-Face Workshop (see Brief Action Planning tab) |
· Current BAP certification (within one year of the Train the Trainer course)
· 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 |
6-12/ instructor | 4 Days |
Health Literacy Trainer Course:
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) |
None | 6-12/ instructor | 2 Days |