CERTIFIED ADDICTION COUNSELOR TRAINING
Our primary business is training behavioral health workers who desire a Certified Addiction Counselor credential in the State of Colorado. All our courses are approved by the Colorado of Behavioral Health Authority and are offered either online, as hybrid models (online and live), or live via Zoom. All count toward the CAT, CAS, or LAC credential.
Online Courses
Each of our online courses is specifically approved by Colorado BHA for online delivery. Our instructors are experienced online teachers. Courses are time-limited, self-paced (with due dates for forum posts and assignments), instructor-led courses. Participants can expect to spend the same number of hours on the online course as they would in a live classroom.
Successfully completing an online course requires personal discipline and scheduling time each day for your coursework.
Online participants do not miss work or spend time or money on travel. Coursework can be done any time of the day as long as forums and assignments are posted when due. Assignments and forum postings count toward the pass/fail grade, and exams are taken online.
Training hours distribution is as follows:
1-day (7 hour) courses are offered over one week.
2-day (14 hour) courses are offered over two or three weeks.
3-day (21 hour) courses are offered over 3 weeks.
Hybrid Courses
We offer three hybrid courses: Group Counseling Skills, Motivational Interviewing, and Clinical Supervision I. Our instructors like this model very much, since students spend a week online with the didactic material, and show up for the live practice well prepared to get right to skills practice. Students have been very pleased with the model as well. Live practice is offered via Zoom.
Hybrid courses give 21 hours of training credit parsed in the following way:
7 hours over one week online
14 hours over two days live
Live Courses
Certain skills-based courses and advanced courses must be taught live, and we do those via Zoom so you can participate from the comfort of your office or home. Those courses are:
CAC Technician:
- Addiction Counseling Skills – 3 days
CAC Specialist and Licensed Addiction Counselor:
- Advanced Professional Ethical Practice – 2 days
- Advanced Motivational Interviewing – 2 days
- Clinical Supervision II – 2 days
Live courses are taught via Zoom.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONTINUING COMPETENCY TRAINING
Any of our CAC courses may be taken for continuing competency credits. Just let us know if you would like your certificate to notate continuing competency hours. Certificates are $10.
Contact Denise O’Connor for further details, 970-263-7775, Denise@7CedarsTraining.com.