Training & Workforce Development
The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health provides training in a number of subject areas, and is accredited by a wide variety of professional associations to provide continuing education credits. Trainings currently being offered, dates, times, locations, and continuing education credits are listed in the Training Bulletins below.
IMPORTANT NOTICE! The Department of Mental Health is extending the date contract providers must use The Learning Net System. The new date is May 1, 2010. The Learning Net will change the way contract provider staff register for DMH-offered training on this website. The revised notice was mailed to all Legal Entity Executive Directors on 3/4/2010. Please review the material by clicking on the Learning Net Procedures for Contract Provider Staff link under Training Applications.
Student Professional Development Program
Web Based Training And Meeting
Training Bulletins
August 2010 Offerings
- 08/04/10 - FIELD SAFETY
- 08/11/10 - Schizophrenia A Comprehensive Review
- 08-11/10 - PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY UPDATE: Pharmacologic Treatment of Schizophrenia
- 08/12/10 - COS DOCUMENTATION
- 08/16/10 - PARAPROFESSIONAL TRAINING
- 08/17/10 - ERGONOMICS 101
- 08/18/10 - OF CRIMINAL RECORDS
- 08/20/10 - INITIAL L.P.S. DESIGNATION TRAINING AND TESTING
- 08/24/10 - CHILD SUPPORT 101
- 08/25/10 - RECOVERY DOCUMENTATION TRAINING
- 08/26/10 - Introduction to Regional Center System for Juvenile Justice Mental Health Staff
- 08/27/10 - SUICIDE EDUCATION & AWARENESS TRAINING (SEAT)
September 2010 Offerings
- 09/01/10 - WORK INCENTIVE TRAINING
- 09/02/10 - SUICIDE EDUCATION & AWARENESS TRAINING (SEAT)
- 09/02 & 03/10 - CLINICAL SUPERVISION FUNDAMENTALS
- 09/10/10 - LAW AND ETHICS GREATEST “HITS”
- 09/15/10 - FIELD SAFETY
- 09/21/10 - ERGONOMICS 101
- 09/22/10 - RECOVERY DOCUMENTATION TRAINING
- 09/22/10 - SUICIDE EDUCATION & AWARENESS TRAINING (SEAT)
- 09/24/10 - ETHICAL BOUNDARIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING
- 9/29/10 - CLINICAL TERMINATION
October 2010 Offerings
- 10/01/10 - INITIAL L.P.S. DESIGNATION TRAINING AND TESTING
- 10/06/10 - RECOVERY DOCUMENTATION TRAINING
- 10/10/10 - EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS
- 10/13/10 - LANDLORD AND TENANT RIGHTS
- 10/25/10 - RECOVERY DOCUMENTATION TRAINING
November 2010 Offerings
December 2010 Offerings
Training Applications
- DMH Training Policy/Procedure – 106/4 – Request for Funding Outside Training - 08-2007-EC
- LPS Training Manual (updated)
- 5150-5585 form (new)
- LPS Initial and Renewal Application Dec 2007
- Prelicensure Training Application Form-Revised 09-2007
- Contract Provider Training Application-Learners under a Legal Entity not registered in the Learning Net
- Contract Provider LNS Training Request-Learners under a Legal Entity registered in the Learning Net
- Learning Net Procedures for Contract Provider Staff (revised)
- The Learning Net
Training Certificates of Completion
Training Conferences
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Information
- Determination of Clinic Readiness to Hire a PMHNP
- Psychiatric MH NP Standardized Procedures / Rev. 08/10
- PMHNP Information: January 2009
- Training on COD in Children and Adolescents / For DMH Psychiatrists on April 11th or 30th
- Trauma & Co-Occurring Disorders-Working with Youth / Training will be held in June and July
- UCLA Department of Psychiatry / WebLink
