Trainings for nonprofit and human service teams

How we teach

• Practice over lecture. Most of the time goes to real plays, role plays, and discussion.
• Your examples, not generic ones. We build case studies around the people your team serves.
• Everyone can take part their own way. No forced sharing, real breaks, and materials ahead of time for people who like to read first.
• Real people in front of the room. Our trainers have lived experience and years in community mental health, and we teach from both. Meet the trainers.

Who we train

Most of our work is with nonprofits, human service agencies, and community programs of every kind, including behavioral health and recovery services, shelters and housing programs, and peer support teams. We train the case managers, therapists, nurses, and front-line staff who keep them going. Executive directors, program directors, clinical supervisors, and training coordinators usually reach out when they want something more useful than another slide deck.

After the training

Learning sticks better with a little follow-up. Depending on what you need, we can share resources, give you activities for team meetings, come back for a one- or two-hour booster, or run a refresher later on. For Motivational Interviewing, we also offer coding and coaching.

Before anything is planned, we talk with you about who your team serves, what’s getting in the way, and what you hope will change. Then we build the case examples, practice, and pace around that, so the training sounds like your work, not someone else’s.

Formats are flexible: a four-hour workshop, two half-days, two full days, or a series of sessions with boosters in between, which is often the best way to make new skills stick. We train virtually anywhere and in person at your agency, in Milwaukee and within about three hours of it, including Madison, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, the Fox Valley, and Green Bay.