Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part one of the two part training.

Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part two of the two part training.

Friday, January 24, 2025 from 8:30 AM-4:30 PM.

This Virtual Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught fully online. Pre-registration is required.

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Friday, February 7, 2025 virtual 1-day training.

This Virtual Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught fully online. Pre-registration is required.

This 1-hour training reviews the components of effective suicide prevention, teaches how to perform a suicide risk assessment, and explores suicide postvention. Postvention is a response to suicide in a community and aims to promote healing and mitigate the negative effects of exposure to suicide.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

This 1-hour training discusses the prevalence of suicide, reviews risk and protective factors, explores warning signs, teaches attendees how to facilitate a suicide risk assessment, and reviews questions to ask someone considering suicide.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 from 9:00AM-3:00PM.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

This training is educational tool for youth, parents, caregivers, and teachers. This presentation will teach participants how to identify sextortion, risk factors, and preventative measures for potential targets. We will provide parents, caregivers, and teachers conversation starters to aide them in having open communication with the youth in our communities regarding sextortion and online safety.

Thursday, March 13, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Friday, March 14, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

This 1-hour training reviews the mental health spectrum, how mental health affects our aging and pathological signs of aging, neurodegenerative disorders (such as dementia), redefining independence, and ways we can slow down or mitigate changes to our mind and body.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from 9:00AM-3:00PM.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Thursday April 10, 2025 8:30A.M.-12:30P.M. Refreshments will be provided.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Friday April 10, 2025 8:30A.M.-12:30P.M. Refreshments will be provided.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

This 1-hour training discusses the prevalence of suicide, reviews risk and protective factors, explores warning signs, teaches attendees how to facilitate a suicide risk assessment, and reviews questions to ask someone considering suicide.

Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day virtual training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part one of the two part virtual training.

Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day virtual training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part two of the two part virtual training.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 from 9:00AM-3:00PM.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages—adults (12+) and children (under 12). Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

This training is educational tool for youth, parents, caregivers, and teachers. This presentation will teach participants how to identify sextortion, risk factors, and preventative measures for potential targets. We will provide parents, caregivers, and teachers conversation starters to aide them in having open communication with the youth in our communities regarding sextortion and online safety.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

This 1-hour virtual training reviews the components of effective suicide prevention, teaches how to perform a suicide risk assessment, and explores suicide postvention. Postvention is a response to suicide in a community and aims to promote healing and mitigate the negative effects of exposure to suicide.

Thursday, June 12, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Friday, June 13, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

This 1-hour training reviews the mental health spectrum, how mental health affects our aging and pathological signs of aging, neurodegenerative disorders (such as dementia), redefining independence, and ways we can slow down or mitigate changes to our mind and body.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

This 1-hour training discusses the prevalence of suicide, reviews risk and protective factors, explores warning signs, teaches attendees how to facilitate a suicide risk assessment, and reviews questions to ask someone considering suicide.

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from 8:30 AM-12:30 PM. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Board Room at LifeWays’ Hillsdale office. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part one of the two part training.

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from 8:30 AM-12:30 PM. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Board Room at LifeWays’ Hillsdale office. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part two of the two part training.

Friday, July 25, 2025 virtual 1-day training.

This Virtual Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught fully online. Pre-registration is required.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

This training is educational tool for youth, parents, caregivers, and teachers. This presentation will teach participants how to identify sextortion, risk factors, and preventative measures for potential targets. We will provide parents, caregivers, and teachers conversation starters to aide them in having open communication with the youth in our communities regarding sextortion and online safety.

This 1-hour training reviews the components of effective suicide prevention, teaches how to perform a suicide risk assessment, and explores suicide postvention. Postvention is a response to suicide in a community and aims to promote healing and mitigate the negative effects of exposure to suicide.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Thursday August 28, 2025 8:30A.M.-12:30P.M. Refreshments will be provided.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Friday, August 29, 2025 8:30A.M.-12:30P.M. Refreshments will be provided.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

This 1-hour training reviews the mental health spectrum, how mental health affects our aging and pathological signs of aging, neurodegenerative disorders (such as dementia), redefining independence, and ways we can slow down or mitigate changes to our mind and body.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Friday, September 19, 2025 from 8:30 AM-4:30 PM.

This Virtual Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught fully online. Pre-registration is required.

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day virtual training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part one of the two part virtual training.

Inside Out: Laying the Foundations for Teen Social and Emotional Wellness

This 4-hour total, 2-day virtual training consists of an overview of social and emotional wellness, identifying strengths and positive self-talk, identifying positive supports, and resilience and self-advocacy.

This is part two of the two part virtual training.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Thursday, October 30, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Thursday, October 31, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

This 1-hour training discusses the prevalence of suicide, reviews risk and protective factors, explores warning signs, teaches attendees how to facilitate a suicide risk assessment, and reviews questions to ask someone considering suicide.

This 1-hour virtual training reviews the components of effective suicide prevention, teaches how to perform a suicide risk assessment, and explores suicide postvention. Postvention is a response to suicide in a community and aims to promote healing and mitigate the negative effects of exposure to suicide.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

This training is educational tool for youth, parents, caregivers, and teachers. This presentation will teach participants how to identify sextortion, risk factors, and preventative measures for potential targets. We will provide parents, caregivers, and teachers conversation starters to aide them in having open communication with the youth in our communities regarding sextortion and online safety.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Thursday December 11, 2025 8:30A.M.-12:30P.M. Refreshments will be provided.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Thursday December 12, 2025 8:30A.M.-12:30P.M. Refreshments will be provided.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

This 1-hour training reviews the mental health spectrum, how mental health affects our aging and pathological signs of aging, neurodegenerative disorders (such as dementia), redefining independence, and ways we can slow down or mitigate changes to our mind and body.

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.