This training is educational tool for youth, parents, caregivers, and teachers. This presentation will teach participants how to identify sextortion, risk factors, and preventative measures for potential targets. We will provide parents, caregivers, and teachers conversation starters to aide them in having open communication with the youth in our communities regarding sextortion and online safety.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

This 1-hour virtual training reviews the components of effective suicide prevention, teaches how to perform a suicide risk assessment, and explores suicide postvention. Postvention is a response to suicide in a community and aims to promote healing and mitigate the negative effects of exposure to suicide.

This 1-hour training discusses the prevalence of suicide, reviews risk and protective factors, explores warning signs, teaches attendees how to facilitate a suicide risk assessment, and reviews questions to ask someone considering suicide.

Thursday, October 31, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

Thursday, October 30, 2025. Refreshments will be provided.

This Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will be taught in-person in the Jackson building meeting rooms at LifeWays. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: IDENTIFICATION + INTERVENTION
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a group of conditions that can occur in a person who was exposed to alcohol before birth. These effects can include physical problems and problems with behavior and learning. This training will help to identify FASDs and intervene.

Virtual Class
Registration required.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Friday, September 19, 2025 from 8:30 AM-4:30 PM.

This Virtual Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught fully online. Pre-registration is required.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

This 1-hour training reviews the mental health spectrum, how mental health affects our aging and pathological signs of aging, neurodegenerative disorders (such as dementia), redefining independence, and ways we can slow down or mitigate changes to our mind and body.

Friday, August 29, 2025 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught virtually. This is part 2 of this half-day training.

Thursday August 28, 2025 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

This Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training will be taught virtually. This is part 1 of this half-day training.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

This 1-hour training reviews the components of effective suicide prevention, teaches how to perform a suicide risk assessment, and explores suicide postvention. Postvention is a response to suicide in a community and aims to promote healing and mitigate the negative effects of exposure to suicide.

This training is educational tool for youth, parents, caregivers, and teachers. This presentation will teach participants how to identify sextortion, risk factors, and preventative measures for potential targets. We will provide parents, caregivers, and teachers conversation starters to aide them in having open communication with the youth in our communities regarding sextortion and online safety.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Essential Skills Training

This free, 4-hour total, 2-day training equips parents, family members, and caregivers with practical tools to understand behavior, create supportive environments, use reinforcement strategies, de-escalate tense situations, and develop a family safety plan. Open to community members aged 16 and older, the course provides a lifetime certification. Whether you live with or assist individuals with behavioral, emotional, developmental, or psychiatric disorders—or work for LifeWays or its provider network—this training is designed to help you create a safer, more supportive environment.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This course teaches students to recognize and respond to emergencies, including burns, injuries, sudden illnesses, and breathing or cardiac issues. It covers care for all ages. Successful completion provides a two-year American Red Cross certification in Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. The cost is $100.

Join us for a public legislative forum focused on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed PIHP Procurement plan. This event will explore the potential impact on local mental health services, public oversight, and funding structures. Community mental health leaders, providers, and policymakers will discuss what’s at stake and why local voices matter.

This event is open to the public.