We each play a vital role in supporting the health and well-being of our community.
Tri-City offers FREE mental health trainings to provide practical skills to support mental well-being. Each training is evidence-based, trauma-informed, and can be customized to meet your needs.
Available Trainings:
Who Can Attend?
This FREE training is open to anyone who lives or works in Claremont, La Verne or Pomona.

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Mental Health First Aid
This course teaches participants how to support someone experiencing a mental health condition or crisis. The training covers key signs, risk factors, and conditions like depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance use. Participants learn a five-step action plan for crisis and non-crisis situations and receive a three-year certification from the National Council for Behavioral Health, along with an MHFA manual.
Community Resiliency Model
This training that teaches practical skills to help individuals manage stress, build resilience, and restore emotional balance. It focuses on understanding the body’s response to stress and trauma while providing simple techniques to improve well-being. Designed for individuals and communities, CRM helps reduce stress, enhance coping skills, and promote overall mental wellness.
Motivational Interviewing
This is a counseling approach that helps individuals overcome uncertainty and build motivation for personal change. It fosters a supportive, compassionate environment to explore their own reasons for change. Participants learn MI’s five core principles, techniques like active listening, and how to assess a person’s readiness, willingness, and ability to make changes.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
ACEs training explores the impact of childhood trauma on lifelong health and well-being, based on research by Kaiser Permanente and the CDC. Participants learn how early stress affects brain development, physical and mental health, and social functioning. The training also provides tools for building resilience and creating a supportive, healing community where children and families can thrive.
Know the Signs
This suicide prevention training that teaches participants how to recognize and respond to suicidal thoughts. It helps individuals move past common tendencies to overlook warning signs, identify those at risk, and connect them to appropriate support and resources.
Have a question? Contact Paul.

Paul Osorio
Community Behavioral Health Trainer
cmht@tricitymhs.org
909-242-7636