• Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI) Skills for Child Welfare Professionals: Self-Paced
  • This self paced course (approximately 3-4 hours) must be completed before you register for the instructor-led course.
  • Learners should allot time for practice recordings and submission.
• Motivational interviewing (MI) Skills for Child Welfare Professionals: Instructor-Led Workshops
  • Learners will meet weekly for 3.5 hours over four weeks for this virtual course and must be complete before you can register for the Coaching Circles.
• Motivational Interviewing (MI) Skills for Child Welfare Professionals: Coaching Circles 1-4
  • The 1.5-hour Coaching Circles are designed to help you foster a realistic self-appraisal, hone your MI skills (with practice and feedback), and increase your confidence in the approach. The topics in each Circle have some similarity to help prepare you for the Final Skills Demonstration course.
  • To meet certification requirements, participants must complete Coaching Circles 1-4. Once you complete all 4 coaching circles, you will be eligible to register for the Final Skills Demonstration course.
• Motivational Interviewing (MI) Skills for Child Welfare Professionals: Skills Demonstration
  • In the final course, you will be asked to demonstrate your MI skills through a series of simulated encounters.
  • Upon completion of the course, learners' agencies will receive an email from DHS Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) about the final MI phase/fidelity monitoring requirements under the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) policy.

Fidelity Monitoring

DHS is in the process of contracting with Lyssn, an artificial intelligence (AI) data analysis software tool, for ongoing fidelity monitoring and working to establish a roll out process with agencies as staff become trained. Ongoing fidelity monitoring intends to provide workers and supervisors support as they implement motivational interviewing and is a requirement under the FFPSA prevention services plan.

If you have questions about anything above, contact mitraining@mnchildwelfaretraining.com.