Training & Events
Innovations Institute offers numerous learning opportunities for individuals seeking to build their knowledge and create more community centered, responsive public-serving systems. Our expert instructional design and media team use best practices in online and in-person learning to present content in an engaging and informative manner.
Conferences: Connect. Learn. Transform.
The Training Institutes is the premier convening of leaders working to transform public systems serving children, youth, young adults, and their families. The 2025 Training Institutes was a resounding success, bringing together system leaders, practitioners, policymakers, and youth and families committed to transforming child-, youth-, and family-serving public systems. The national event featured dynamic keynotes, in-depth workshops, innovative panel presentations, and forward-thinking, interdisciplinary convenings. Subscribe to Innovations Institute emails to receive updates about future Training Institutes conferences.
Visit the Training Institutes LIVE! online workshop series with over 30 workshops from 2021 & 2022 on YouTube. Sessions cover topics like implementing mobile response and stabilization services (MRSS), youth suicide prevention strategies, and more.
The National Wraparound Implementation Academy is the preeminent conference for designing and supporting effective service systems and developing a well-prepared workforce to install and expand Wraparound efforts. This conference is led by our National Wraparound Implementation Center. Subscribe to Innovations Institute emails to receive updates about future Academies.
Online Learning: Online. On-Demand. On Mission.
The Instructional Technology and Media team at Innovations Institute has supported over 80,000 users with more than 100 online training programs through our learning management system (Innovations LMS) and our YouTube channel. Through Innovations LMS, users can access trainings, webinars, animated shorts and videos, and other learning aids. New content is routinely developed and launched in partnership with our centers and with partner organizations. Create an account on Innovations LMS and subscribe to our YouTube channel to ensure you don't miss a thing!
Events
NE Regional Pyramid Model Conference
The inaugural Northeast Regional Pyramid Model Conference offers a unique opportunity for New England's Pyramid Model workforce to address the needs of the early care and education community with workshops and content that improve outcomes for all families with young children.
Fall 2025 FOCUS Webinar Series
This unique three-part webinar series is designed to introduce and deepen your understanding and application of FOCUS, an intermediate care coordination model. Through interactive discussions and practical skill-building, participants will enhance their ability to effectively partner with families, coordinate care, and track meaningful outcomes.
Building Systems of Care
Interactive webinars that place systems of care (SOC) within the context of health system reforms, with attention to the integration of SOC practices within Medicaid redesign efforts and child welfare reforms. The course content provides a comprehensive training on SOC principles, policies, practices, and system design approaches.
Circle of Love Podcast
Hear the story of Victoria Gray and her family in a podcast from our Parent, Infant & Early Childhood (PIEC) team. The Gray family story highlights the needs and priorities of grand-led families and offers innovative solutions for those working in public systems. Listen to the podcast.
Designing with Youth: Strategies for Building Crisis Response Systems
This five-part webinar series focused on the importance of meaningful collaboration with youth and young adults in designing, staffing, and utilizing MRSS. View the Recordings.
Miss the MRSS Learning Community?
All sessions were recorded from this monthly peer learning opportunity designed to increase the understanding and quality implementation of Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS) models. Register & access the series.
On Innovations LMS, you will find the following free online courses and much more:
Family Reunification Month
Our National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification, supporting the timely, stable, and lasting reunification of families with children in foster care, created special resources for the month of June!
Unstuck & On Target
Teacher training modules designed to improve the executive functioning of elementary school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Learn more about Unstuck & On Target.
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Toolkit
Process modules discuss important processes for the child and adolescent psychiatrist to understand and consider. System modules discuss the basic elements of individual child-serving systems in the U.S. and the potential roles of the child and adolescent psychiatrist working with and in these systems. In partnership with the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.