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E.g., 06/15/2024

Children's Mental Health Matter!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:  Please join us and find out why "Caring For Every Child's Mental Health Matters!"

To Register:  Call Mr. Pat Artero from Dept. Of  Administration Training & Development Branch at (671) 475-1294 or email at patrickcalvoartero@gmail.com or Ms. Rowena Torres-Morada from Guam Behavioral Health & Wellness Center at (671) 300-8368/9 or email at rowena.torres-morada@gbhwc.guam.gov.

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2nd Annual GBHWC Health and Safety Fair

Each year Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center is required as an organization to provide training or some form of education to personnel, persons served, and or other stakeholders. Required trainings are provided by qualified or trained staff to verify and ensure that GBHWC employees have appropriate qualifications. 
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New Employee Orientation

GBHWC Prevention, Training, & Education division provides following In-Service training: 
 
 

HIPAA- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

 
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires that we protect the privacy of our consumers personal health information (PHI), and that we notify them of the ways we use and disclose their information to other people. Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center training and education division provides training and provides copies for staff, stakeholders, and consumers laws required by HIPAA, 42 CFR § 2.11, and 45 CFR § 164.508 upon request and during New employee Orientation.
 

New Employee Orientation, Sexual Harassment, and Health and Safety Training

GBHWC training and education division provides “New Employee Orientation, Sexual Harassment, and Health and Safety training” to all new employees, interns, and stakeholders accordingly.  A guided tour of the GBHWC facility, satellite offices, and residential homes are provided to all employees and in-service processing and badge making by human resources division is completed beforehand. During orientation employees are required to go over and read all GBHWC policies and procedures and are briefed on all job requirements. 
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Behavior Tools Training (New Employees)

GBHWC Certified Behavior Tools instructors teach and facilitate courses through the following objectives:
  • Identify coercion and punishment commonly used to change behavior
  • Identify the effects of coercive and punishment on people
  • Demonstrate the steps of the Strengthen Relationships Behavior Tool
  • Describe the benefits of using Strengthen Relationships Behavior Tool
  • Describe the value of, and demonstrate empathy statements
  • Define behavior, consequences, reinforcement and its effects
  • Demonstrate the steps of Use Reinforcement Tool
  • Define Junk Behavior” and Discuss Why it Happens
  • Demonstrate the steps of the Pivot Tool
The following are some of the learning objectives from the Behavior Tools Practitioner Course:
  • Discuss how to effectively set expectations with someone
  • Demonstrate the steps of the Set Expectations Tool
  • Discuss how to effectively make and implement a behavior contract
  • Demonstrate the steps of the Make a Contract Tool
  • Discuss how to review and evaluate a behavior contract
  • Discuss factors that influence behavior
  • Analyze Behavior and identify replacement behaviors
  • Demonstrate all Tools in a variety of situations
 All classes are highly informative, entertaining and interactive. Participants relate easily to the real life examples that are used and the easily understood ways that principles and strategies are explained. The strategies are highly effective and often work quickly. 
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New Employee Orientation

GBHWC Prevention, Training, & Education division provides following In-Service training: 
 
 

HIPAA- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

 
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires that we protect the privacy of our consumers personal health information (PHI), and that we notify them of the ways we use and disclose their information to other people. Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center training and education division provides training and provides copies for staff, stakeholders, and consumers laws required by HIPAA, 42 CFR § 2.11, and 45 CFR § 164.508 upon request and during New employee Orientation.
 

New Employee Orientation, Sexual Harassment, and Health and Safety Training

GBHWC training and education division provides “New Employee Orientation, Sexual Harassment, and Health and Safety training” to all new employees, interns, and stakeholders accordingly.  A guided tour of the GBHWC facility, satellite offices, and residential homes are provided to all employees and in-service processing and badge making by human resources division is completed beforehand. During orientation employees are required to go over and read all GBHWC policies and procedures and are briefed on all job requirements. 
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Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment Training II (Staff Only)

 ANSA-II training, all GBHWC employees who work with adults will be required to attend, such as, psychologists, social workers, counselors and other direct care staff who provide assessments of consumers at baseline and upon discharge of GBHWC services.  The ANSA is one of two outcome measures which GBHWC has identified to monitor consumer's progress in treatment, from admission to discharge and the outcome data is vital for our program planning. 
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