Principles of Community-Based Behavioral Health Services for Justice-Involved Individuals (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course focuses on community-based behavioral health services for justice-involved individuals. It offers an overview of evidence-based and promising practices. It explores Medicaid coverage, a trauma-informed approach, case management services, peer support specialists, criminogenic factors, and disparate outcomes.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and it is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Reading: Principles of Community-Based Behavioral Health Services For Justice-Involved Individuals
Publisher: SAMHSA, HHS
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to community-based behavioral health services for justice-involved individuals.
Learning Objectives: Describe barriers to physical and behavioral health care for justice-involved individuals. Identify evidence-based and promising programs and practices. Identify criminogenic risk and need factors. Give an example of disparities in the criminal justice system.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.