Open to all ACOs and Animal Welfare Professionals in the U.S.
You must be 18 or older to participate.
Attention animal care and control professionals!
Do you want to gain easy-to-use evidence-based tools and increase your confidence in and ability to deal with mental health situations in your work as an animal care and control professional? Do you want to be able to better support your co-workers and volunteers when they are experiencing mental health challenges, and/or more effectively handle mental health crisis situations you encounter on your field service calls? If so, national MHFA certification is for you and NACA in Partnership with the National Council for Mental Wellbeing is forming a first of its kind to be offered strickly to animal care and control professionals!
What You’ll Gain
- National MHFA certification
- Practical tools for responding to mental health crises
- A deeper understanding of how to support others and yourself
- 10 NACA CEUs
The NACA-offered MHFA certification course consists of:
- 2 hours of virtual self-paced content to be completed BEFORE the Live Session.
- 6 hours of LIVE virtual instructor-led training, via Zoom
(includes a 30 min lunch and two 15 min breaks – 9am to 3:30pm Pacific Time/Eastern Time 12noon-6:30pm) - 1 hour of post-Zoom self-paced content to be completed for CERTIFICATION.
- $170 per student
Registration Now Open! Choose Live Session Below – $170 per student
NOTE: Pre-work is required before you can attend the live session.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
About the Instructor
The instructor for the MHFA certification course through NACA is certified MHFA instructor Dr. Janet Hoy-Gerlach, a licensed clinical social worker and founder of OneHealth People-Animal Wellness Services (OHPAWS). Dr. Hoy-Gerlach has extensive experience in community-based crisis intervention and suicide/lethality risk assessment and has worked with and trained animal welfare and veterinary professionals nationally and internationally. She is the lead author of Human-Animal Interaction: A Social Work Guide, a book published by the National Association of Social Workers and serves as a subject matter expert on mental health benefits of the human-animal bond for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Dr. Hoy-Gerlach lives in Northwest Ohio with her family, which includes three dogs and three cats.