North Dakota State Board of Addiction Counseling Examiners

This course provides healthcare personnel with foundational and role-appropriate knowledge to deliver safe, effective, and developmentally appropriate care across the lifespan. Content addresses physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and safety considerations for patients in each age group, ensuring compliance with Joint Commission standards HR.01.05.03 and PC.01.02.03.

Course Creation Date:  12/17/2025

This course is offered online. Internet connection required.

Cultural competence is essential for providing safe, effective, and compassionate care in today’s diverse behavioral health and substance-use treatment environments. This training equips mental health clinicians, direct-care staff, peer specialists, and recovery professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver culturally responsive services that honor each client’s identity, background, and lived experience.

Course Creation Date:  November 11, 2015

This course is offered online. Internet connection required.

This course examines the crucial role of community integration in promoting mental health recovery and overall well-being. Participants will learn to identify, navigate, and coordinate a wide variety of community-based mental health resources, ranging from outpatient services and residential care to peer support programs and beyond. Emphasis is placed on practical strategies for linking clients to appropriate services across the continuum of care, enhancing continuity, and promoting long-term engagement. Through real-world case examples and actionable tools, professionals will develop the skills needed to advocate for client needs, collaborate effectively with community partners, and bridge the gap between clinical services and everyday living supports.

This course is offered online. Internet connection required.

Severe anxiety can arise after trauma or injury, under persistent stress, or extreme change. This course will explore distinguishing between everyday worry and an anxiety disorder, the top five anxiety disorders, signs, symptoms, and risk factors.  We will also discuss treatment approaches.

This course is offered online. Internet connection required.