The National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) has developed state-of-the-art, standardized, web-based trainings to build the capacity of child welfare and mental health professionals to effectively support children, youth, and their foster, adoptive, and guardianship families.

The NTI aligned trainings provide the skills, strategies, and tools professionals need to:

• Support children to heal from trauma and loss.
• Provide parents with skills to parent more effectively.
• Collaborate effectively with child welfare and mental health professionals.
• Improve outcomes for permanency, child well-being, and family well-being and stability.

NTI was designed to help you better understand and address the mental health needs of children, youth and their families moving toward or having achieved permanency through adoption or guardianship. It also seeks to improve collaboration between the child welfare and mental health service systems with shared language and aligned curricula. NTI aims to improve the outcomes by infusing enhanced permanency, adoption and mental health competency in the provision of casework and clinical practice.

NTI has partnered with the CCFL CAFE to make this training readily available. Enroll today!