CES - ZOOM Zoom: Helping Your Virtual Sessions Take Off
Location and Time
Location:Zoom
Start Date:
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 - 1:00:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
End Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2024 - 2:30:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
Training Details
Please note that you are responsible for ensuring online PRI sessions and the number of hours earned fulfill your system’s requirements. Credentialing requirements for online sessions stipulate all participants must (1) individually register, and (2) log into the online session on their own device to receive credit/hours for attending. Learners who participate in an online session via shared login will not receive a certificate. Learners are also required to attend sessions in full for credit hours to be awarded.
Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a seismic shift in how Prime For Life instructors and Prime Solutions practitioners provide services. With the sudden shift to virtual services, practitioners were required to learn new ways of doing their essential work, but with limited guidance about how to make those sessions work. Prevention Research Institute began providing virtual training services in the addiction treatment field in 2012, and like everyone else learned a lot about the delivery of virtual services in 2020. This session will focus on pragmatic questions of how to do these services, with practical suggestions about what helps and what interferes with client engagement, how to prevent problems, and how to manage it when challenges arise. Because learning is at its best when the learner is highly engaged, the instructors will use a dynamic blend of didactic teaching, discussion and activities to explore these issues.
Goals:
Participants will recognize that conducting virtual sessions is a skill set, which can be developed like other practitioner skill sets and which can build on the capacities practitioners already possess. They will also feel more confident in their ability to do virtual work and identify what they must do to be ready for it.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe three methods to enhance participant engagement;
- Identify three important equipment considerations for virtual sessions; and
- Delineate two approaches for managing PFL challenges in a virtual setting.