Training & Events

VTCPAP believes in continuous, collaborative learning and growth.

We believe in doing what works, using evidence-based practices, and focusing our efforts on having a ripple effect of impact across Vermont.


By providing training opportunities to providers across Vermont, we are helping to support our partners in consistently delivering exceptional patient care.


Please use this form to inquire about availability and scheduling a VTCPAP training for your practice.

Professional Education & Training

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VTCPAP Training Opportunities

VTCPAP is available to provide FREE  live virtual trainings to practices on a variety of mental health related topics including: ADHD, anxiety, behavioral challenges/aggression, suicide care, and trauma. Please use this form to inquire about availability and to schedule a VTCPAP training for your practice.

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12pm From Our Host Organization, VPQHC: CAMS 4-Teens Live Online Fall Training

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Holiday VTCPAP Closed

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8:30am VTCPAP 101 Practice Training

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12pm From Our Host Organization, VPQHC: Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) Fall Cohort

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10:30am From Our Host Organization, VPQHC: Conversations on Access to Lethal Means (CALM Conversations) with Mark Margolis

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10:30am From Our Host Organization, VPQHC: Foundational Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) Using the Stanley Brown with Mark Margolis

12pm Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) Prevention webinar

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9am Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE Training)

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9am Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE Training)

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REACH Institute PPP Training

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FREE REACH Institute Training Opportunities

VTCPAP is excited to offer FREE training opportunities through our rolling application process. Explore upcoming REACH Institute trainings and apply for the opportunity that best fits your practice and schedule.

VTCPAP has offered this gold-standard training since 2022 as a vital part of our work to support primary care providers in building skills and confidence in pediatric mental health care.


Interested providers should review The REACH Institute’s available national cohort dates and complete our application, where they’ll select the training dates that best fit their schedule. Next Available Training: November 13, 2026


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This training helps providers build practical skills and confidence using CBT strategies with youth experiencing depression. It includes a full-day interactive workshop followed by four one-hour, case-based group calls for continued learning and expert guidance.


Interested providers should review The REACH Institute’s available national cohort dates and complete our application, where they’ll select the training dates that best fit their schedule. Next Available Training: December 4, 2026

APPLY TODAY!

How It Works: Applications must be submitted at least two weeks before the selected training date and will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. A limited number of scholarship slots are available each year. For selected applicants, VTCPAP will coordinate enrollment with The REACH Institute and cover the full training cost through grant funding.



Questions? Contact vtcpap@vtcpap.com

VTCPAP Sponsored/Recommended Trainings:

Upcoming Events

  • Grand Rounds from Sheppard Pratt: Suicide and Access to Lethal Means

    To see the full Grand Rounds schedule and for more information click here.


    Paul Nestadt, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


    DATE: September 23, 2026

    TIME: 12 - 1PM ET


    Click Here for the Sheppard Pratt online portal to access the Ground Rounds.

  • Grand Rounds from Sheppard Pratt: Reproductive Psychiatry Essentials: What Every Clinician Should Know

    To see the full Grand Rounds schedule and for more information click here.


    Sarah Nagle-Yang, MD, Colorado Center for Women’s Behavioral Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine.


    DATE: December 9, 2026

    TIME: 12 - 1PM ET


    Click Here for the Sheppard Pratt online portal to access the Ground Rounds.

  • Clinical Suicidology Update & What Makes Life Worth Living

    This one hour-long webinar will provide a general update on clinical suicidology featuring new developments in clinically assessing, stabilizing, and treating suicidal risk. Evidence based developments and related policy initiatives will be discussed. Beyond this update, an emerging clinical and research focus on what makes life worth living will be presented. Randomized controlled trials of CAMS are providing valuable insights as to how people who are suicidal can effectively learn to manage suicidal thoughts and feelings which can open the door to developing meaningful plans. goals, and hope for the future--a life worth living with purpose and meaning.


    DATE: Tuesday, September 22, 2026

    TIME: 3 - 4 PM EST


    Register Today! 



  • Postpartum Depression & Anxiety Prevention

    This presentation explores how providers can support perinatal patients using evidence-based strategies to reduce the risk of postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. We’ll discuss the roles of therapy, medication, and lifestyle interventions in promoting maternal mental health.


    DATE: Monday September 21, 2026

    TIME: 12PM - 12:45PM EST

    VIRTUAL: Zoom (details will be sent to attendees after they register)

    COST: FREE

    WHO IT'S FOR: Medical, mental health, and community providers screening and supporting perinatal people.


    Register Today!

  • Maternal Suicide Prevention Strategies

    This webinar, held at the convergence of Suicide Prevention and Depression Screening Awareness months, invites obstetric providers, maternal mental health specialists, suicide prevention leaders, and perinatal psychiatrists to advance evidence-based maternal suicide prevention strategies and improve crisis response systems for pregnant and postpartum individuals. 


    We will highlight the latest CDC maternal suicide data, screening, including identifying suicidality vs. OCD/intrusive thoughts, non-suicidal self-harm, and psychosis. The session will address the role of depression as an indicator of suicide risk, and treatments, including a discussion about medications and black box warnings. We will also cover the importance of safety planning versus mandatory reporting to child protective services, among other topics.


    DATE: Tuesday October 6, 2026

    TIME: 10:30 - 11:30AM PT (1:30 - 2:30PM EST)


    Register Today!

Ongoing/On Demand

  • Dartmouth Health: Pediatric Grand Rounds

    Check out the video recordings of the Pediatric Grand Rounds at Dartmouth Health including on the topics of:

  • American Academy of Pediatrics

    • Identifying and Managing ADHD with Co-occurring Conditions: This course will support pediatricians and other health care providers with practical knowledge and resources to better identify and manage ADHD that co-occur with other conditions. 
    • Practical Strategies for Implementing Trauma-Informed Care: free 6-unit PediaLink that aims to enhance pediatricians’ practical skills to identify and respond to child traumatic stress and includes videos from national trauma-informed care experts, which discuss specific guidance and case studies related to trauma-informed care. This 3-hour asynchronous course offers 3 CME and 3 MOC Part 2 credits and includes practical tools to identify and respond to trauma by age groups.

  • Mental Health Education & Training

  • Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health

  • Perinatal Trainings

    Postpartum Support International Trainings

    • Perinatal Mental Health Training for Medical Providers: Live Onsite or Virtual Course or On-Demand Recorded Webinar - Designed to equip primary care frontline healthcare providers with the skills necessary to assess patients for perinatal mental health complications and, as appropriate, provide treatment with medication(s) or connect individuals with additional resources and care. Training is provided by PSI perinatal psychiatric experts with curriculum developed specifically for primary healthcare providers. Discounts for group registration. CEs and CMEs provided.

  • The CAMS Approach to Suicidal Risk with David A. Jobes, Ph.D., ABPP - On-Demand

    "The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) is one of a handful of suicide-focused clinical treatments with extensive clinical trial support. CAMS is a therapeutic framework that focuses on patient-identified "drivers" of what makes them suicidal. CAMS is patient centered and focuses on empathy, collaboration, and honesty. As an outpatient intervention CAMS is designed to form a strong clinical alliance and to increase motivation in the patient with helpful clinical documentation that reduces the risk of malpractice liability." Check out this free, on-demand course

  • Early Childhood Development, Adversity, and Resilience: A review for pediatric health care providers

    This new interactive, self-paced learning module from The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University offers an overview of key science concepts related to early childhood development, including: 

    • how children's earliest experiences — beginning before birth — impact their development and health;
    • how early development of the brain and other organ systems affects lifelong health and well-being;
    • toxic stress and its relationship to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma, and resilience;
    • how moving upstream to address structural inequalities while also addressing individual needs can build children’s resilience and promote healthy development; and more!

    Click Here to Explore this New Resource!

  • Trainings from our host organization, VPQHC

    Check out the trainings offered by our host organization, the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care.

  • Trainings from Empty Arms Vermont

    "Empty Arms Vermont offers bereavement trainings for professionals who work with the perinatal population, focusing on best practices to support patients or clients who experience a loss. These trainings are tailored to specific contexts, such as clinical settings, mental health support, and doula care, and can be scheduled to accommodate your staff’s needs (condensed to one hour, or as long as four hours)."

    Check out their training schedule

  • Taking the Time to ASQ: Detecting and Managing Youth at Risk for Suicide in the Healthcare Setting

    Youth suicide rates are continuing to rise, with significant disparities in rates across high-risk populations. Suicide prevention efforts require a multipronged public health approach, with significant opportunities for healthcare providers to be partners in this effort. Suicide care treatments, like CAMS, can reduce suicidal thoughts, behaviors and death. But how do we ensure that we can identify and support youth at greatest risk for suicide and get them to the care they need? Most young people who die by suicide are often seen by healthcare providers in the weeks and months prior to their deaths, indicating that this setting can be leveraged to identify and care for those at risk. 


    This presentation will focus on how feasible and efficient suicide risk clinical pathways can identify those most in need of suicide care using evidence-based screeners like ASQ.


    Watch On-Demand

Seeking Training Proposals

VTCPAP’s mission is to improve access to evidence-based mental health care across Vermont. As part of this work, we offer free training to pediatric and perinatal medical providers, as well as mental health clinicians throughout the state. Our goal is to make it easier for children, youth, families, and perinatal individuals in Vermont to access high-quality care.


For the 2026–2027 year, we are hoping to offer trainings in the following areas:


  • Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT and TF-CBT for Problematic Sexual Behaviors
  • Perinatal Suicide Care
  • Exposure & Response Prevention
  • Perinatal PTSD & Reproductive Trauma
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  • Pediatric Mental Health for Primary Care
  • Early Psychosis for Primary Care
  • Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders


If you have expertise in any of these areas and offer virtual training, we would love to hear from you. We are currently seeking training proposals.


Please email earrowsmith@vtcpap.com to learn more.