Therapeutic Mentoring
Course #: CSP 216L
Description:
Therapeutic Mentoring offers structured, one-to-one, strength-based support services between a Therapeutic Mentor and a youth (up to the age of 21) to support a specific goal on the child’s behavioral treatment plan such as developing social skills, interpersonal skills, problem solving strategies, or daily living skills. Therapeutic Mentoring is designed to give children and teens the opportunity for skill building through experiences that would naturally occur in their everyday life, at their home, foster home, childcare center, or other setting. To help the child develop a specified skill, their Therapeutic Mentor works to model, educate, motivate, and coach them on how to use and practice overcoming obstacles related to these skills. Services are provided in any setting where the youth resides, such as the home (including foster homes and therapeutic foster homes), and in community settings, such as schools, child care centers, respite settings, as well as other culturally and linguistically appropriate community settings.
Notes:
Transforming Boston Access to Mental Health (BAMH)Overview: Funding for Transforming BAMH will support efforts to recruit, retain, train, and place students in behavioral health positions in the City of Boston. Transforming BAMH will prioritize preparing youth-facing practitioners with cultural, linguistic, racial, and other minoritized identities to serve Boston communities.Aim 1: Increase the enrollment in behavioral health human services and health sciences programs preparing students for careers in behavioral health professions. BAMH Fellows will be enrolled and matriculate programs in Mental Health Counseling (MHC; master’s) or Therapeutic Mentoring (TM; certificate).Aim 2: Provide certification options for paraprofessionals in behavioral health fields with priority for students from culturally, linguistically, racially, and otherwise diverse backgrounds. Transforming BAMH will support Fellows to become Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors (LADC) or certified Therapeutic MentorsTherapeutic Mentoring (TM) Certificate ProgramThe Therapeutic Mentoring (TM) Certificate Program is housed within UMB’s College of Liberal Arts and focuses on developing core skills for supporting youth mental health. The TM Program is a key pathway into the behavioral health field with training focused on building competencies of mentors in mental health theory, research, and practice to ensure youth have access to high quality, strengths-based, culturally responsive, and effective mentors. Currently, it is possible to obtain the TM certification through 64 hours of applied work experience alone, but this pathway for the work experience alone as a means of certification will be ending July 31, 2023. This means every Therapeutic Mentor (TM) that holds a CHW certification will need to complete an additional 16-hour training course with a specialty in TM. UMB will be able to provide BAMH Fellows who enroll in the TM Program the CHW Certificate with the specialty in TM th
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