Behavioral Health Professional (BHP)

BHSI has a contract with the University of Maine at Augusta to provide curriculum development, training, technical assistance, and quality improvement in compliance with the Department of Health & Human Services-Office of Child & Family Services-Children's Behavioral Health Services (DHHS-OCFS-CBHS) for staff working with children and families.

BHSI oversees all aspects of the BHP training which include the following:

• Developing and revising curricula for the BHP course, BHP Train-the-Trainer course, BHP Supervisor course and the Children's Case Management course;
• Delivering a Train-the-Trainer to certify BHP trainers who will provide the training to direct care workers in provider agencies, adult education programs and private training facilities; a four-day training covering the same ten topic areas as the BHP;
• Delivering the BHP courses to certify Behavioral Health Professionals (BHPs) to work with children and families; a fifty-hour training covering ten topic areas (Introduction, Working in the Home Setting, Child Development/Child Pathology, Trauma, Individual Treatment Planning, Communication, Principles of Behavior, Principles of Family Functioning, Principles of Instruction, Community Resources);
• Delivering the BHP Supervisor course; a comprehensive training around supervising the BHP.
• Delivering the Children's Case Management course at the University of Maine at Augusta; to provide participants with a grounding in High Fidelity Wraparound values, principles and opportunities to develop and practice strategies for incorporating them into the practice of children's case management
• Overseeing agency, adult education and private training facility trainings;
• Providing BHP certification;
• Providing consultation on, but not limited to, the BHP course, implementing assessments, treatment plan writing and service plan writing.
• Offering technical assistance.