• Virtual Zoom Meeting
  • Start Date: Nov 08, 2021 9:30am
  • End Date: Nov 08, 2021 10:30am

New in 2021 is an educational opportunity developed by the IACP Education and Training Committee. The Direct Support Professional Series offers high quality, accessible and relevant training specifically tailored to Direct Support Professionals.

Dates & Times:

Monday, November 8, 2021, at 9:30 - 10:30 am

Motivational Interview for Direct Support Professionals
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a powerful evidence-based method for engaging and motivating the person served. MI is proven to be a method that helps people resolve ambivalence toward change through the discovery of intrapersonal motivation by placing complete responsibility for the change on the individual. Motivational Interviewing has applications in various settings giving staff skills to help their persons served to succeed through appropriate evidence-based practices. This presentation will offer participants tools and skills that can be used in their everyday interactions.

Presenter: Tony Raymer is a LISW and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor who has worked in the field of mental health and disability supports in Polk County since 2007. A graduate of Wartburg College and the University of Iowa with his Master's in Social Work, Tony has supported children and families, as well as adults with liabilities in not only the therapy office individually, but in the community and through group therapy with the goal of maximum independence in mind. He currently is the Director of Clinical and Community Services at Candeo, a not-for-profit in Johnston, providing mental health and disability services as well as outpatient mental health services to the wider community. He also teaches as n Adjuncts instructor at DMACC in the Human Services Department and serves as the Chair of the Iowa Board of Social Work and the President-Elect of NASW-Iowa.

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