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KVC West Virginia is a private, nonprofit organization that serves over 3,000 children, teens and adults each year. Our team of caring professionals provides home- and community-based services that strengthen families and prevent foster care, outpatient mental health therapy, foster care, foster parent recruitment and support, adoption, and youth academic and mentorship programs.
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Virtual Motivational Interviewing Training (2 CEUS)
Have you ever experienced working with a client who is difficult to engage in treatment? If so, KVC West Virginia is offering a virtual training discussing how to utilize the evidenced-based practice of Motivational Interviewing.
In this two-hour training, Erin Keltner, MSW, LICSW, KVC West Virginia’s Vice President of Clinical Services, will provide information on the theoretical foundations of Motivational Interviewing as well as detailed training in assessment, treatment planning, clinical intervention skills, and team building. Participants will learn the scientific and conceptual basis for orienting treatment around these interview techniques. Participants will receive two CEUs for their participation.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the history and theoretical underpinnings of using Motivational Interviewing
- Learn and understand the Stages of Change
- Define the key elements of Motivational Interviewing and use of these elements in practice
- Identify and develop strategies that help to maintain change
Access the Trainings
Click the buttons below to access the virtual WebEx training meeting. We highly recommend you access this training via a Google Chrome or Firefox browser.
Cost:
- $0 (Free) – DHHR Employees
- $40 ($20 per credit hour x 2) – Industry professionals, teachers, healthcare agency employees, etc.
About the Presenter
Erin Keltner started with Croney and Clark, Inc. (now KVC Kentucky) as a practicum student in August 2004. Since then, Ms. Keltner has worked as a case manager and clinician in the Intensive In-Home Services and IMPACT Plus programs, was the Director of IMPACT Plus and then the Director of Development, Training, and Quality Assurance. Ms. Keltner also assisted KVC Kentucky in becoming accredited by The Joint Commission in November 2010. Ms. Keltner started working in West Virginia in 2011 and is currently acting as the Director of Permanency in addition to her Vice President duties.
Ms. Keltner graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Transylvania University in 2001 and received her master’s degree in social work from the University of Kentucky in 2005. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Kentucky and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in West Virginia.