This comprehensive annual training course provides behavioral health employees with essential knowledge and practical skills needed to deliver safe, ethical, and effective services. Participants will review key topics that support quality care, regulatory compliance, workplace safety, and positive client outcomes.
The course covers consumer rights, cultural competency, trauma-informed care, workplace safety, violence prevention, emergency preparedness, infection control, crisis intervention, suicide risk assessment, and co-occurring disorders. Employees will learn how these topics influence daily interactions with clients, families, coworkers, and community partners.
Through real-world examples, practical guidance, and evidence-based principles, participants will strengthen their ability to recognize risks, support recovery, promote dignity and respect, maintain safety, and provide compassionate, person-centered services.
By the end of this training, employees will be able to:
• Protect consumer rights and confidentiality
• Apply cultural humility and trauma-informed care principles
• Identify and respond to workplace safety concerns
• Recognize warning signs of crisis and suicide risk
• Utilize effective de-escalation and intervention strategies
• Support individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders
• Promote recovery-oriented and person-centered care
• Follow organizational policies related to safety, compliance, and professional responsibility
This training is intended for all Elysian Behavioral Health employees and fulfills annual compliance and safety training requirements.
- Teacher: Admin User
ASI Certification: Interviewing, Validation, and Report Writing is an advanced clinical training designed to ensure clinicians are competent in administering, verifying, and interpreting the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) within a modern behavioral health workflow.
This course goes beyond basic ASI administration and focuses on the critical skills required to produce accurate, defensible clinical assessments. Participants will learn the history and purpose of the ASI, how it functions as a multidimensional assessment tool, and how to conduct structured interviews that go beyond surface-level responses.
A major emphasis is placed on the verification process, where clinicians learn how to identify inconsistencies, detect minimization, and determine true clinical severity using targeted follow-up questioning. The course also introduces Elysian’s enhanced assessment model, including a structured 79-question format with built-in validity checks to improve accuracy and reliability.
Clinicians will be trained on the full Elysian workflow, including client setup, assessment delivery, response review, interview execution, and final report completion. In addition, the course covers how to effectively use AI-assisted tools to generate clinical narratives while maintaining full clinical responsibility for accuracy, interpretation, and documentation.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to translate structured ASI data into clear, clinically meaningful intake notes that support treatment planning, medical necessity, and compliance standards.
This course is intended for clinicians who conduct intake assessments and are responsible for producing high-quality clinical documentation in substance use and behavioral health settings.
- Teacher: Admin User
- Teacher: Bernice Walker
