MAP Training Program Benefits

​There are many benefits of completing the MAP training program, including:

1. Training is free for NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH)-licensed clinicians (bring your own laptop w/ Excel software).​
2. 32 Continuing Education Units (CEU's) awarded to Social Workers, LMHCs, and LMFTs ($25 fee) upon completion).​
3. NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) ​Clinician and Supervisor Certification upon successful completion of the training program.​
4. Free resources and informational supports to participants.​
5. Intensive clinical training and consultation on a broad range of evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents (anxiety, depression, disruptive behavior, and trauma among other content areas).

The New World of Managed Care: How does MAP fit in?

The New York State Office of Mental Health is offering MAP training to all of its child-serving programs. Managing and Adapting Practice, or MAP, is a comprehensive, online resource that assists clinicians in coordinating and supplementing the use of evidence-based practices for children’s mental health. The MAP training program helps prepare the clinical workforce to face the new demands and requirements of managed behavioral healthcare 
in several ways.

Program level-benefits of MAP:

• Provides organizations access to clinical training in anxiety, depression, disruptive behavior disorders, and trauma, in addition to decision support tools to guide and improve practice.  MAP can provide guidance about selecting and using different evidence-based practices.
• Provides up-to-date information about evidence-based strategies for different target populations, allowing organizations to quickly identify and tailor use of EBPs for a variety of target populations.
• Provides tools that can help your organization demonstrate organizational capacity for providing measurable, clinically relevant, and meaningful client outcomes.

Individual, clinician-level benefits of MAP:

• Clinical knowledge and skills needed for a managed care environment, specifically, using evidence-based treatment strategies, pragmatic tools for tracking client progress over time, and use of data to guide treatment decisions.
• Training to:
  • Systematically assess problems and develop targeted treatment plans using evidence-based strategies.
  • Use clinical dashboards to document treatment plans, monitor effectiveness of treatment strategies, and track client outcomes.
  • Gain proficiency with documenting and communicating focused treatment goals, targets, and outcomes.

Thinking about MAP Training? A few things to know ... 

• We have found the MAP training program to be most successful for small groups of clinicians that attend the training with a supervisor. Clinicians can certainly attend without a supervisor; however, supervisors must attend training with at least 1 clinician.   
• Qualities that influence participants’ success: some experience working with computers, a strong interest in learning new technology, motivation to enhance and supplement clinical skills, early adopters, and those who embrace innovation.
• Clinicians participating in the MAP program are required to have at least 3 child or adolescent cases over the course of the program in order to obtain NYS MAP Certification and complete the training successfully.