SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

SickKids CCMH Learning Institute Advancing best practices in mental health care through training & education for professionals

SickKids CCMH Learning Institute is a training facility with a focus on outreach and capacity building within the mental health sector. For over 30 years we have been providing evidence-based training and education to professionals in the Health and Human Services Industry. Our certificate programs along with our one and two-day workshops provide participants exposure to clinical conversations with multidisciplinary contributions in an interactive, hands-on environment of learning, all orchestrated by innovative facilitators providing best practice training in their field of distinction.

Grief can be difficult for children and youth to understand, express and navigate. For the professionals supporting them...
10/12/2026

Grief can be difficult for children and youth to understand, express and navigate. For the professionals supporting them, knowing what to say, how to respond and when to intervene can make a meaningful difference.

How can you help children and families navigate grief with greater understanding, compassion and confidence?

Beginning November 11, join Andrea Warnick, Lysa Toye and Liana Lowenstein for our Children's grief and bereavement certificate program, a five-module learning series designed to strengthen your skills in supporting children, youth and families experiencing grief and loss.

Through practical strategies, clinical insights and creative approaches, you'll learn how to:
▪️ Prepare children for the anticipated death of someone close to them
▪️ Support bereaved children and youth through different grief experiences
▪️ Strengthen therapeutic presence through mindfulness, compassion and the use of self
▪️ Recognize and respond to the complexities of traumatic grief
▪️ Incorporate creative, developmentally appropriate interventions into your work with grieving children and youth

Whether you work in mental health, health care, education, hospice or community services, this program offers practical tools to help you provide thoughtful, responsive support to grieving children and families.

Flexible learning options: Register for the full certificate program or select individual modules that align with your professional learning goals.

November 11, 18, 25, December 2 and 9, 2026 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET | 30 CE hours
🔗 Explore the program and register: https://cvent.me/221Zl5
Fees: Full Certificate $1,500 | Individual modules $300

Meaningful mental health care begins with listening, understanding and recognizing the value of lived experience.October...
10/10/2026

Meaningful mental health care begins with listening, understanding and recognizing the value of lived experience.

October 10 marks World Mental Health Day. This year's theme, “Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change,” reminds us that the perspectives and experiences of people accessing mental health care are essential to informing how care is understood, delivered and improved.

At SickKids CCMH Learning Institute, we recognize the importance of continued learning and reflection in supporting thoughtful, responsive mental health practice.

Through professional education and training, we encourage practitioners to reflect on the therapeutic relationship, consider the perspectives and experiences clients bring to care, and explore how these insights can inform clinical understanding and practice.

Whether through case-based learning, reflection on the use of self in therapeutic relationships or exploring different approaches to care, professional learning provides opportunities to deepen understanding and strengthen connections between clinical knowledge and the experiences of those we support.

This World Mental Health Day, we recognize the importance of listening with intention, valuing lived experience and continuing to learn from the people and communities we serve.

How can clinicians use engaging, developmentally appropriate strategies to help children with ADHD strengthen attention,...
10/09/2026

How can clinicians use engaging, developmentally appropriate strategies to help children with ADHD strengthen attention, impulse control and self-regulation in therapy, at home and at school?

On November 9, join Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S, for Creative interventions for children with ADHD, an interactive live webinar exploring directive play therapy techniques for children aged 4–12.

Through activity demonstrations, experiential exercises and practical clinical examples, you will learn to:
▪️ Build attention and focus through creative interventions that support concentration and engagement.
▪️ Strengthen impulse control and self-regulation with strategies to help children slow down their minds and bodies.
▪️ Support positive behaviour and transitions by helping children manage their energy, navigate activities and develop pro-social skills.
▪️ Extend strategies beyond the therapy room with interventions parents and teachers can use at home and school.

Expand your clinical toolkit with creative, practical interventions designed to help children with ADHD build essential skills across everyday settings.

📅 November 9, 2026 | 10:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. ET | 3 CE hours
Fee: $150 CAD
🔗 https://cvent.me/3x5k2Q

Understanding trauma is essential. Knowing how to assess its impact and respond with informed, appropriate interventions...
10/08/2026

Understanding trauma is essential. Knowing how to assess its impact and respond with informed, appropriate interventions is equally important.

How can mental health professionals strengthen their approach to working with adults experiencing the effects of single-incident, complex and developmental trauma?

Beginning November 9, join Natalie Zlodre Choy, MSW, RSW, for our Certificate in trauma counselling for mental health professionals: Level 1, a six-day program designed to deepen your understanding of trauma and strengthen your clinical assessment and intervention skills.

Through a biopsychosocial and trauma-informed lens, you will learn to:
▪️ Recognize diverse trauma responses, including PTSD, complex and developmental trauma, dissociation and attachment-related patterns.
▪️ Strengthen clinical assessment skills by identifying key questions that inform appropriate, ethical interventions.
▪️ Apply trauma-informed strategies to address emotional dysregulation, flashbacks, intrusive imagery, sleep disturbances and other trauma-related challenges.
▪️ Explore treatment approaches for single-incident, complex and developmental trauma, while considering the impact of trauma work on clinicians and organizations.

Build your clinical knowledge and develop practical approaches to support trauma recovery while strengthening personal and professional resilience.

📅 November 9, 11, 16, 18, 23 and 25, 2026 | 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. ET | 36 CE hours
Certificate fee: $1,500 CAD
🔗 https://cvent.me/33BqnR

The psychedelic experience may end, but the clinical work of integration is just beginning.How can clinicians support cl...
10/08/2026

The psychedelic experience may end, but the clinical work of integration is just beginning.

How can clinicians support clients in making sense of their experiences and integrating their insights into daily life?

On November 5, join Adele Lafrance, PhD, C.Psych., for After the journey: Practical theory and practices for supporting psychedelic integration, a live webinar exploring a four-part framework for supporting clients following psychedelic experiences.

Drawing on current research in neuroplasticity, trauma processing and relational psychology, this session will help you:
Drawing on current research in neuroplasticity, trauma processing and relational psychology, this session will help you:
▪️ Explore four domains of integration and identify potential clinical interventions within each.
▪️ Support clients in processing their experiences and navigating their return to everyday roles and relationships.
▪️ Examine neuroplasticity and nervous system sensitivity and their potential relevance to clinical timing and pacing.
▪️ Recognize personal and professional biases that may influence your approach to integration.

Gain practical frameworks and clinical perspectives from Adele Lafrance to inform your approach to supporting psychedelic integration.

November 5, 2026 | 1–4 p.m. ET | 3 CE hours | $150 CAD
🔗 https://cvent.me/DyYNZb

An intake conversation can shape how someone experiences mental health services from the very beginning.On November 3, j...
10/07/2026

An intake conversation can shape how someone experiences mental health services from the very beginning.

On November 3, join Scot Cooper, RP, for Intake conversations in mental health services: Where change begins, a live webinar focused on moving intake beyond information gathering and toward conversations that foster safety, hope and meaningful engagement.

Participants will explore how to:
▪️ Shift intake conversations toward a more collaborative and change-focused process
▪️ Draw on brief therapy approaches to support meaning-making
▪️ Elicit and build on clients’ existing competencies and supports
▪️ Ask questions that open up possibilities and inform next steps

“We can never underestimate what it might take for someone to reach out and take that first step towards services.” — Scot Cooper, RP

📅 November 3, 2026 | 9 a.m. to noon ET | 3 CE hours

Join us to strengthen your approach to intake conversations and help create a more hopeful, collaborative start to care.
🔗https://cvent.me/rYg72V

Even a well-planned change can be difficult when people are unclear about what’s changing, why it matters or what comes ...
10/06/2026

Even a well-planned change can be difficult when people are unclear about what’s changing, why it matters or what comes next.

On October 16, join Carolynne Wintrip, BASc, MBA, CTPC, PRC, for Leading people during change: Helping teams adapt, engage and succeed, an interactive live webinar focused on the people side of change.

You will explore practical approaches to:
▪️ Understand common reactions to change
▪️ Communicate with greater clarity, context and trust
▪️ Reduce resistance and strengthen engagement
▪️ Increase accountability during periods of change
▪️ Build an action plan for a real change you are currently leading

By the end of the session, you will leave with a personalized action plan and practical tools you can apply directly in your workplace.

Oct. 16 | 9 a.m. to noon ET

🔗 Learn more and register: https://cvent.me/NAlZeg

Supporting others through trauma and crisis requires more than clinical skill — it also requires intentional ways to pro...
10/06/2026

Supporting others through trauma and crisis requires more than clinical skill — it also requires intentional ways to process the impact of the work.

Debriefing can help helping professionals and teams make space for reflection, connection and support after difficult or emotionally demanding situations.

On October 15, join Karine Silverwoman, MSW, RSW, for Debriefing with intention: Skills and supports for helping professionals, a full-day live webinar designed to strengthen how professionals approach debriefing in trauma-exposed work.

You will explore how to:
▪️ Recognize and use different types of debriefing appropriately
▪️ Reduce isolation and support connection following difficult experiences
▪️ Respond to the impacts of vicarious trauma
▪️ Build practical approaches to supporting colleagues and teams

Oct. 15 | 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET | 6 CE hours

If your work involves supporting people through crisis, trauma or complex situations, this training offers practical strategies you can bring back to your own practice and workplace.

🔗 Learn more and register: https://cvent.me/GoGOvd

10/05/2026

Continue building your clinical knowledge with focused certificate learning this November.

Explore four live certificate programs designed to deepen your knowledge, strengthen practical skills and support application in your work.

Upcoming certificate programs include:
▪️ CBT Level 2 — Application to specific populations
▪️ Trauma — Certificate in trauma counselling for mental health professionals: Level 1
▪️ Grief and bereavement — Children’s grief and bereavement certificate program
▪️ Attachment — Certificate in attachment-focused adult psychotherapy: Advanced course

Whether you’re advancing your skills in an established area of practice or expanding into a new one, these certificate programs offer focused learning to support your continued professional development.

🔗 Explore November certificate programs:
https://sickkidscmh.ca/course-category/certificate-programs/

10/05/2026

Build deeper CBT knowledge with focused certificate learning this October.

Strengthen your understanding of core CBT principles and build practical skills you can apply across adult, youth, child and adolescent practice.

Explore two upcoming Level 1 certificate programs:
➡️ CBT Level 1: Foundational CBT training for adults and youth with Nili Benazon, PhD
Dates: October 22, 23, 29 and 30, 2026 | 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Learn evidence-based CBT approaches to case formulation, cognitive restructuring, behavioural strategies and problem-solving.

➡️ CBT for Children Level 1: Core concepts and techniques with Kathryn Walker, PhD, C.Psych., and Daniel Chorney, PhD
Dates: October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2026 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Learn how to adapt CBT concepts and techniques to support children and adolescents in ways that reflect their developmental needs.

🔗 Explore October CBT certificate programs:
https://sickkidscmh.ca/course-category/certificate-programs/

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