Registration deadline: January 16, 2025. *Hosted by Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, White Eagle Health Center.* **Priority will be given to Ponca Tribe members.** **Training Schedule:** January 30, 2025: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm January 31, 2025: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm There is significant research in the health, education and criminal justice fields that supports the use of motivational interviewing in addressing the needs of victim/survivors and offenders, providing support and helping to facilitate change. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a trauma-informed interviewing/interacting technique that focuses on creating supportive, meaningful and strategic conversations. These skills are efficacious and are considered an evidence-based practice in criminal justice.

Upon completion of this training, you will have: * At least three skills you can use immediately to engage someone in a conversation about behavior change * A deeper understanding about the barriers we inadvertently create in conversations about change * Enhanced efficacy with developing versus prescribing ambivalence and discrepancy as motivators of change * An ability to elicit change talk and work through the four phases of MI

* Community Corrections Officer * Law Enforcement * Social Workers * Tribes/Tribal Partners