Leading Teams & Programs Through Change: A MI Approach

Join Illume: The Behavioral Health Center of Excellence on Wenesday, January 12th, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Central)

Using A Motivational Interviewing Approach to Leading Teams and Programs Through Change

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a well-established EBP used in clinical settings to help clients achieve their desired behavioral changes. The same approach has applications in leadership, supervision, and within our professional relationships.

Join this Leadership Workshop to learn how the Four Tasks of MI - Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning can work to help achieve and sustain organizational change. We will examine the importance of listening, honoring team members’ autonomy, and evoking solutions from staff improve the change process and staff investment in the change. Finally, we will consider ways to engage in difficult conversations with staff members and why it is so important not to avoid them.

This training is presented by Julie Blanco, LCSW, CRAADC. She has dedicated 33 years of her career to supporting individuals living with mental illness and substance use concerns, including 11 years as Integrated Treatment Program Manager (first at Community Alternatives, then at Places for People following the two organizations’ merger). Julie is certified as a Trainer for TREM, is Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) member, a Certified Trainer of CRA, among other licensure and certifications. Additionally, Julie has been an adjunct professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis since Spring 2020.

•All attendees must attend the full time of the event.

•All attendees are required to be registered before the event.

•All attendees must complete the event CEU questions during the registration process and sign-in sheet at the start of the training.

•Please, arrive to the training 5-10 minutes prior to the start time to ensure that any potential difficulties are worked out prior to the event start.

•Attendees must attend the full event time in order to receive continuing education. If an attendee is not present at the start of the training, leaves for a significant time during the training or leaves the training early, CEUs may not be awarded.

•If an attendee experiences any issue that would keep them from being in the training from start time to end time, continuing education cannot be awarded. Illume retains the attendance list for auditing purposes.

•Please allow at least 45 business days to receive your CEU certificate of attendance. CEUs will only be disbursed via email to individuals that have followed the guidelines.

Host or Publisher Illume: The Behavioral Health Center of Excellence