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MAP Multi-Agency Direct Services Training

Dates: December 8-12, 2025, This training is now full. Please submit to our waitlist below to be notified of the next training opportunity.
Times:  TBD (40 hours total, 8 hours daily. Exact time will be determined by registrant pool time zones)
Location: Online, via Zoom

Cost: Download the MAP Training Overview and Pricing Flyer

Please note: This is a multi-agency training led by PracticeWise. Registrants are responsible for arranging payment for their participation, whether through their employer, another funding source, or personal payment.

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How Does MAP Work?

The MAP toolkit disaggregates the components of successful evidence-based treatments and pairs them with decision making tools designed to meet the needs of providers, children, adolescents, and their families.

The Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP) system is designed to improve the quality, efficiency, and outcomes of children’s mental health services by giving clinicians easy access to the most current scientific information and by providing user-friendly measurement information resources and clinical protocols. Using an online database, the system can suggest formal evidence-based programs or, alternatively, can provide detailed recommendations about discrete components of evidence-based treatments relevant to a specific youth’s characteristics. Whether services are delivered through existing evidence-based programs or assembled from components, the MAP system also adds a unifying evaluation framework that tracks outcomes and practices on a graphical “dashboard.”

MAP includes the following:

  • PWEBS Database
  • Practitioner Guides
  • Clinical Dashboards

Direct Services Training Overview

The MAP Direct Services Training Series teaches mental health professionals to use the MAP system to improve their direct care to clients. The program’s primary aim is for professionals to develop proficiency in the selection, organization, and delivery of common practices used in evidence-based treatments.

Path to Certification Includes:
  • 5-days MAP Direct Services Workshop.
  • 12, 1 hour sessions of consultation meetings for at least 6 months following the workshop.
  • Therapist Portfolio review.

MAP Direct Services Learning Objectives:

  1. Provide a high-level description of the Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP) system in the context of direct service to clients.
  2. Recognize that the MAP Direct Services curriculum is organized into collections of concepts, resources, and applications to support service decision-making and action.
  3. Name five core concepts of the MAP system and a service process relevant to each concept.
  4. Identify three core resources of the MAP system and a service decision supported by each resource.
  5. Access and navigate three core resources of the MAP system, namely, the PracticeWise Evidence-Based Services (PWEBS) Database, Practitioner Guides, and Clinical Dashboards.
  6. Apply the expertise development framework to self-assessment of competence in the MAP concepts and resources.
  1. Apply best available evidence to design and initiate a target-focused episode of care. Identify conditions and strategies appropriate for pursuing guided adaptation to care.
  2. Perform a search of the PWEBS Database to identify treatment families and practice elements for a treatment target of Anxiety.
  3. Describe the key principles and common challenges of Exposure when using the practice for a treatment target of Anxiety.
  4. Build a Fear Ladder for a youth with a treatment target of Anxiety. Identify practice elements common to each of the three phases of treatment: Connect, Cultivate, and Consolidate.
  5. Develop a treatment plan to target improvement of Anxiety.
  6. Integrate multiple MAP resources to prepare for a treatment episode targeting Anxiety and create Clinical Dashboards for clients.
  1. Describe how applying different strength of evidence requirements affects the level of support for treatment families and practice elements in the targeted treatment of Traumatic Stress.
  2. Recognize the key principles and common challenges of applying the Narrative: Trauma practice element to the targeted treatment target of Traumatic Stress.
  3. Plan an activity schedule for a youth with a treatment target of Depression.
  4. Describe and compare examples of Relaxation with youth for implementation in a treatment target of Depression.
  5. Develop a treatment plan to target improvement of Depression.
  6. Integrate multiple MAP resources to prepare for a treatment episode targeting Depression and create Clinical Dashboards for clients.
  1. Recognize how varying age requirements affects the nature of treatment families and practice elements of studies with good support or better in the targeted treatment of
  2. Disruptive Behavior. Explain a youth behavior using the Four Factor Model.
  3. Identify the differences between Time Out, Rewards, and Effective Instructions, and demonstrate how to apply these practices in cases with a treatment target of Disruptive Behavior.
  4. Apply Active Ignoring as a practice for a treatment target of Disruptive Behavior.
  5. Build a Treatment Pathway for a group of children with a treatment target of Disruptive Behavior.
  6. Integrate multiple MAP resources to prepare for a treatment episode targeting Disruptive Behavior and create Clinical Dashboards for clients.
  1. Demonstrate skill with an evidence-based decision-making model for improving care by outlining common decisions and identifying the best available evidence for making those decisions.
  2. Apply the MAP concepts, processes, and practice tools as part of direct service.
  3. Identify evidence-based programs matching client characteristics.
  4. Build individualized treatment plans from components of evidence-based treatments.
  5. Deliver client care using a components approach.
  6. Evaluate client progress throughout the course of service delivery.
  7. Make empirically informed adaptations to practice that are responsive to real-time information about progress.
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