Announcement: Please visit our Supervisors page to learn about our Training Team!

Professional Development

Community Behavioral Health Training Center
Current Offerings

Community Behavioral Health Training Center Certificate Series

Meji Singh, PhD, launched the Community Behavioral Health Training Center in 2017

Before founding The Hume Center, Dr. Meji Singh, was once the Assistant Director of the California Center for Training in Community Psychiatry and Mental Health Administration. This center was responsible for training professionals initially from the Bay Area, then from all over the State of California, and eventually internationally through the Community Behavioral Health Services Administration.

This legacy certificate program was developed to give professionals the chance to earn a Community Behavioral Health Specialist certificate. upon completion of the full series. For more information, please reference this Announcement Letter from our President/ CEO, Dr. Joty Sikand.

Continuing Education

Professional Training Workshops

The Hume Center provides professional training workshops! All course are Six Continuing
Education Units for Psychologists (MCEP Approval Pending).

The following information applies to all of our Continuing Education workshops.

  • All workshops will be from 9am to 4pm (Registration will begin at 8:30am)
  • Refreshments, coffee, and lunch will be served
  • 6 CE credits will be provided to licensed psychologists (pending MCEP approval)

For more information or for questions regarding registering, please contact:

Phone: (925) 825-1793

Previous Courses Offered

The Supervisory Process

Participants will learn a conceptual framework and develop skills through working on a supervisory presentation. Psychotherapy is not an intellectual process. The psychotherapist must under-stand the interactional dynamics between the client and the therapist. No matter what the therapist’s orientation is and what kind of active interventions one wants to implement, if one does not grasp the interactional dynamics, the effectiveness is left to chance.

Developing an Internal Support System and Organization of Community Mental Health  Consultation Service

The workshop participants explored how and what kind of record system is necessary in order to develop an Internal Support System within the consultant organization. Caplan’s writings are very clear in describing the theory and practice of Community Mental Health Consultation. These workshops compliment his work by providing practical skills in the implementation and  development of such services. In our experience, the success of a mental health consultation program is largely dependent on the back-up Peer Consultation and Individual Supervisory support systems available to the consultants in their own organization.

Community Mental Health Consultation: Basic Concepts

The goal of Community Mental Health Practice is to solve problems where they occur and in collaboration with the persons/organizations that have a stake in the outcome. Mental Health Consultation is the most effective way to help professionals in non-mental health academic and human service organizations to achieve their work objectives.

Development of Community Mental Health Consultation

The workshop participants will learn the theory and practice of developing consultation relationships with other human service providers and academic institutions in the community.

Public Health Approach in the Delivery of Community Mental Health Services

Public Health Concepts were discussed with actual examples from community mental health work to illustrate how Public Health Approach can be used to prevent mental disorders and promote mental health.