Enhancing Knowledge Through Online Learning
Bimonthly online discussions are continuing education opportunities for mental health interpreters and clinicians who work with deaf consumers. QMHI's are required to have 40 contact hours of continuing education per year.
You can go to this URL https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-A-Meeting- for more information on how to join the webinar. More tips for using Zoom can be found HERE
All presentations are in the form of a webinar. Links to the webinar will be sent out the same day as the event. This year our webinars will be hosted on Zoom. To use this platform, please read documents on the Zoom Website.
Important: In order to assure time to process your registration, the completed form and payment must be received 7 days prior to the event you wish to join.
The registration fee for all online discussions in the calendar year 2021 is just $35.*
How to Register:
- Download and fill out the 'Permission to File CEUs" form. This will serve as your registration form for all online discussions within that calendar year.
- Send a check for $35.00 made out to ADARA- MHIT Fund along with the completed form to:
Shannon Reese, Services Coordinator
Alabama Department of Mental Health
Office of Deaf Services
P.O. Box 301410
Montgomery, AL 36130
Presented by: LeeAnne Valentine, MFT
May 10, 2022
All discussions are conducted from
6:30 - 8:30 Central Standard Time (CST)
"Now Showing"
“Sexuality and Mental Health: What the Fook Do I Know?”
Upcoming Events
All Events run 6:30 - 8:30 PM Central Time
July 12 Psychosocial Outcomes in Long Term Cochlear Implant Users. Presenter: Irina Castellanos
September 13 Concept of Forest-Bathing in Mental Health. Presenter: DeeAnn Martin
November 8 Dance Therapy with Deaf/MI Adults. Presenter: Sondra Malling

The Purpose of the Training
This Bi-monthly online discussion will provide participants with opportunities to interact with interpreters and clinicians in the field of deafness and explore research articles, discuss presentations and apply the online discussion to service provision.
Sexuality is often a taboo today, but most people are not aware of how sexuality issues can go hand in hand with mental health issues. As parents, educators, school counselors, or mental health workers – how do they address or help those who struggle with sexuality especially teenagers, young adults, and elderly clients, and with mental health issues
The Objectives of the Training:
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Participants will review sexual terminology considered taboo in society.
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Participants will distinguish the difference between Intimate Partner Violence and Domestic Violence in the deaf community.
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Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the difference between sexual dysfunction vs sexual acts in the scope of mental health issues
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Target Audience:
Interpreters in Mental Health, Community Interpreters, Mental Health Professionals, School Counselors