Advanced Crisis Core

EnHaNCING
SKILLS

Launch into next level crisis care.

You can continue developing your crisis response skills through participation in advanced crisis training. Grow your competence and focus more intentionally on the skills you need to successfully navigate your crisis role. If you need to complete Mobile Crisis Response Team training for enhanced reimbursement, we've got you covered.

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Benefits of The Training

The advanced crisis core trainings empower you as a human services professional to enhance your skills, build connections and promote resilience in the face of complex and high-stakes situations.

Enhance Skills

Increases feelings of competence, confidence and job satisfaction among crisis workers.

Build Connections

Develops healthy crisis teams and strengthen networks of support.

Promote Resilience

Equips supervisors with tangible strategies for engagement to support workforce retention and employee satisfaction.

Upcoming Trainings

Mobile Crisis Response Team Orientation

Prepare yourself to become an active member of a crisis team by learning about harm reduction, peer support, leveraging teleheath and more in this self-paced training. See Details

Self-Paced, Online
Fee: $0 members; $130 nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 8
Note: Satisfies Medicaid requirements for enhanced reimbursement.

Harm Reduction in Crisis Intervention

Navigate conversations on access to lethal means, learn how to support individuals engaged in high-risk behaviors, and address both symptoms and diagnoses. See Details

November 18, 2024, 12:00 - 4:00pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 (Full Members: Black Friday sale includes a bonus registration); $30 (Partial Members); $60 (Nonmembers)
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Trainer(s): Myranda Green, LLMSW
Note: Satisfies Medicaid requirements for enhanced reimbursement.

Telehealth & Suicide Risk

Working with Individuals at Elevated Risk for Suicide via Telehealth

Acquire advanced telehealth techniques and best practices for managing suicide risk in a virtual setting. See Details

December 4, 2024, 12:30 - 4:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 members; $30 partial members; $60 nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Trainer(s): David Rozek, Ph.D., ABPP
Note: Full members: Black Friday sale includes bonus registration.

Crisis De-Escalation

Concrete Skills for Intervention

Master the skills and tools to effectively and safely intervene in acute crises by enhancing self-awareness, co-regulation and strategic intervention techniques. See Details

March 13, 2025, 8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 members; $30 partial members; $60 nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 4
Trainer(s): Brian Bean

Peer Support in Mobile Crisis Teams

Examine the vital role of peer support specialists in behavioral health crises, gain insights into the evolving system of care and engage in valuable discussion in this two-part training. See Details

April 22-23, 2025, 8:30 - 11:30am CST each day
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 members; $70 partial members; $99 nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 6.0
Trainer(s): Nze Okoronta

Mobile Crisis Teaming

Discover the value of delivering community-based crisis support in a team approach and learn about safety, staff roles and effective intervention techniques. See Details

May 20, 2025, 8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 members; $30 partial members; $60 nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Trainer(s): Liz Bartz, MS
Note: Satisfies Medicaid requirements for enhanced reimbursement.

Substance Use in Crisis Intervention

Join an interactive training course that covers the fundamentals of substance use treatment, co-occurring disorders and crisis intervention. See Details

May 28-29, 2025, 8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 members; $70 partial members; $99 nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 8.0
Trainer(s): Joanne Tulachka, MA, LPC, CSAC

Mobile Crisis Response Team Training

Core Competencies

This training series is comprised of six live, synchronous training courses and a self-paced, asynchronous course. Live coursework builds on the foundational skills taught in the self-paced course and includes discussion and small group work.

For more information about the core competencies that make up this curriculum, as well as to keep track of your training requirements, use our Mobile Crisis Response Team Orientation and Training Checklist.

Training Checklist

Medicaid Minimum Training Requirements

In order to satisfy the training requirements to be eligible to receive enhanced Medicaid reimbursement beginning in January 2024, the following training sessions must be successfully completed (in addition to foundational crisis core training per DHS 34.21(8)):

Alternatively, the self-paced Mobile Crisis Response Team Orientation training will satisfy the minimum training requirements.

More information about billing for mobile crisis teaming can be found in this webinar from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS).

WDHS Crisis Services Provider Resources

Grant Funds

For mobile crisis trainings only

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Medicaid Services received planning grant funds to design an enhanced mobile crisis service and partnered with the BHTP to create a new Mobile Crisis Response Team curriculum.

This mobile crisis response team training curriculum was supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $853,504 with 100% funded by CMS/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CMS/HHS or the U.S. Government.