Understanding Critical Time Intervention

Online Course: Spring 2024

Want to know more about Critical Time Intervention (CTI)? Considering it as a model for your agency? Join us for this course which covers key principles and phases of the CTI model, evidence for its effectiveness, and tools that teams need to implement it. We will also discuss how to make community linkages and ways to bring CTI and CTI principles into your agency. This multimedia, web-based course is led by CTI experts and utilizes an adult learning approach.

Critical Time Intervention is a time-limited care coordination model that mobilizes support for vulnerable individuals during critical times of transition in their lives. The aim of CTI is to facilitate continuity of care and community integration by ensuring that individuals have enduring ties to their community. This evidence-based practice resides at the intersection of mental health and homeless services and has been adapted across the United States and internationally for use with persons leaving psychiatric hospitals, formerly incarcerated individuals, unhoused veterans, young people who have experienced first episode psychosis, and other vulnerable groups during periods of transition.

Meet the Instructor

Bebe Smith, MSW, LCSW, is a clinical social worker, consultant, and trainer. She is a former clinical assistant professor of social work and psychiatry at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. In her clinical and educational work, Bebe has focused on interventions key to social work and recovery practice--family psychoeducation, psychotherapy, case management, and self-empowerment. She led a pilot of Critical Time Intervention in North Carolina from 2012-2015 and successfully championed the model for adoption by the state mental health system in 2014. Bebe graduated from Vassar College with a BA in English in 1984 and received a MSW from UNC School of Social Work in 1993. She worked as a volunteer in a psychiatric hospital in England in 1984 and received some of her best training as a graduate student at Club Nova, a clubhouse model program in Carrboro, NC. She was NASW NC Social Worker of the Year in 2012.

Learn More & Register

Training Certificates

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:

Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session)
Completing all required learning activities
Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
Completing the course evaluation form and certificate request form

7.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB, NBCC, and NAADAC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants approximately two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.

Group Registration

If you are registering five or more people from one organization, please email us for a special discount.

Scholarships

Full and partial scholarships available—email us for more info. Scholarship requests are due Monday, March 4, 2024.

Accommodations

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Isabel-Kai Fisher.

Grievances

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Rachel Ehly.

*In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate from one of the following boards, you must pass each of the five weekly quizzes with an 80% or higher (you will have unlimited retests) along with the final evaluation. The required post-test questions will be at the end of each week's section and the required evaluation will be provided at the completion of the course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can request a certificate using the certificate request form posted with the evaluation and on your learning page. C4 Innovations will then review your course completion and email you a certificate within 2-3 weeks in PDF format. If you are a social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the certificate request form for us to be able to include it in your certificate.

C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2023 to 10/17/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 7.5 continuing education credits.

C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 6576). Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

This course has been approved by C4 Innovations as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #100990, C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

Who Should Take This Course

Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-oriented organizations

Learning Objectives

Describe the CTI model and review its evidence base
Explain team members' roles and responsibilities in each CTI phase
Contrast CTI linking process with traditional case management
Explain use of supervision, documentation, and quality assessment to monitor fidelity

Course Facts

Dates: Mondays, March 18-April 15, 2024

Time: 1-2:30 pm ET

Practice level: Beginner to Intermediate

Cost: $400 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)

CE credit:

ASWB: 7.5 hours
NAADAC: 7.5 hours
NBCC: 7.5 hours