SERVICES

The Central Oregon Behavioral Health Consortium is a training and educational program supported by collaborative members across Central Oregon serving CADC’s, masters students, and associates and fellows completing their supervision towards licensure.

COBHC Services Include:

Applications closed -2023-2024- COBHC Trainee Program

The COBHC will offer a weekly, rotating, Didactic series. This training series will be offered for CME credit to those practitioners who are licensed and seeking CMEs to qualify towards their licensure requirements.

For trainees (CADC’s, masters students doing internships, and Associates) the didactic series is a required part of your educational experience within the COBHC and will help developed your therapeutic skills and expand your supervision conversations over the course of your field placements. Please refer to the Handbook on the number of didactic trainings that are required based on your year in schooling, and or employment status.

To view the didactic series – please visit out Event Calendar

In rotation with Journal Club – the Monthly Consult group will give Interns and Associates time to expand on the skill of consultation, case presentation, and conceptualization. A rotating schedule of trainees will present on important cases and seek skill development and guidance from peers and colleagues regarding progress, next steps in treatment, and clinician development.

To view Bi-monthly Consult Group events, please visit our Event Calendar

In rotation with Consult Group – the monthly Journal Club will provide trainees the opportunity to develop the skill to transfer scholarly researching into practical therapeutic intervention – living out the Practitioner Scholar Model of the COBHC. The Consortium is grounded in evidence-based practice, and we are excited to practice this within Journal club in an effort help develop the skill of understanding how to review scholarly articles, statistical significance, seeking of facts, and testing of theories.

To view Bi-monthly Journal Club events, please visit our Event Calendar

Not all member sites have on-site staff to provide direct clinical supervision. The COBHC has implemented a Clinical Supervision Sharing model with internal supervisors that are able to provide individual clinical supervision for our interns and associates.

If you are a member seeking supervision services, contact the consortium today – we are happy to assess and create a plan to fit your needs.

If you are an intern or associate in need of supervision at a nonmember training site – we are happy to explore if your training site is eligible to join the COBHC – contact us!

The Consortium offers quarterly trainings to provide robust learning opportunities to our current trainees and licensed providers within the Central Oregon region. The COBHC will offer four intensive trainings annually, here are the scheduled 2023-2024 training events:

TRAINING PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES

  • If you are a member seeking supervision services, contact the consortium today – we are happy to assess and create a plan to fit your needs.
  • If you are an intern or associate in need of supervision at a nonmember training site – we are happy to explore if your training site is eligible to join the COBHC – have your Training Site contact us!
  • The COBHC is a training consortium built around education and skills development for CDAC’s, master’s level clinicians, and associates/fellows. We aim to increase the skills of our local talent and engage our employee-partners (called members) to help create a stable behavioral health workforce for our growing community. We are currently offering:
    • Stipends: The COBHC will provide stipends for interns/associates in their field placements. To receive this stipend, you agree to engage with the consortium training curriculum, at an approved member site, for the full duration of your field work placement. If you are currently interning or are an associate placed at a member site and would like to get involved in training opportunities, you are welcome to contact us.
    • Training tracks: Our trainings are based on your intern/field placement. We have four tracks: Integrated Primary Care Behavioral Health, Specialty Behavioral Health, Co-Occurring Behavioral Health, and Pediatric & Family Behavioral Health. Based on your field placement site, you will have specific trainings to complete over the course of your academic year, yielding a Certificate of Completion.
  • Leveled Certificates of Completion: As you complete required trainings, you will be provided Certificates of Completion and, when applicable, CEU’s. In addition, you will receive a certificate of completion from the COBHC upon completion of the 9-month academic period (October-June).
  • Associates/fellows: Associates and fellows have a home at the Consortium. Our trainings are graduated in challenge level to foster continued learning for direct skill development to practice through your clinical supervision. As an associate or fellow, we also look to you as part of the training team – helping to develop you as a leader in the field of behavioral health.
  • *PLEASE NOTE applications for the 23-24 academic year OPEN!

Q and A

CADC’s and Masters’ Level students seeking clinical field work.

Mental health providers with a complete degree in their field seeking clinical supervision and work experience to fulfill licensure requirements. Fellow is a common term for Psychologists, Associate is a term revering to master’s in counseling and master’s in social work, and QMHP is a term used for clinical provider working in exempt settings under the license of another provider.

Interns and associates will spend an average of 3 hours a week engaging in consortium activities. There will also be full-day trainings that are required throughout the year.

**Time spent may vary per trainee**

At this time, no credits will be provided for the curriculum completed during your field placement. Our trainings are to augment your field placement work through your academic institution.

If you are a licensed professional seeking CME, you are qualified to get credit for select trainings offered by the COBHC.

We hope our certificates are a way you can demonstrate that you have chosen an advanced training experience that is beyond your non-COBHC trained peers, leading to greater employment opportunities.

It is the mission of the COBHC to increase skill and retention of our local trained talent, making your certificates of completion from the COBHC attractive to our local workforce and member sites.