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The Center for Strength-based Strategies offers: Motivational Interviewing training Motivational Intervieiwng training for trainersMotivational Interviewing coaching. Our Director, Michael D. Clark, MSW is a member of Motivational Interviewng Network of Trainers (MINT) which is the only trainer listing within the Motivational Interviewing model. (MINT status can only be attained through this professional organization and by completing a training-of-trainers session sanctioned by this organization). Michael D. Clark, MSW is one of the few trainers who is a member of MINT that have served as a long-time probation officer, magistrate as well as a abuse/neglect case manager within a Circuit Court (Michigan). He specializes in the application of this approach with court-mandated clients.
Mr. Clark has trained staffing groups across a variety of professional fields. Michael has authored first-of-it’s-kind articles demonstrating the use of Motivational Interviewing in a two-part series with the American Probation and Parole Association’s Perspectives journal and similar two-part series with the United States Courts Federal Probation journal.
**Center Update Our Center has recently added training Associates who are trainer members of the MINT orgranization that have extensive experience directly in criminal justice or direct practice with mandated clients. Our Center has now collected the largest faculty in the United States of MINT members who have served / or are currenly employed as probation officers, police officers or currently work in correctional facilites. Our faculty also includes MINT members who have worked with juvenile offenders, families/parents involved in the child welfare ffield families/parents (abuse & neglect issues) as well as mandated substance abuse clients. The CSBS specializes in providing MINT members (trainers) who have direct practice experience working with offenders / mandated clients. Here is a partial listing of clients that the Center for Strength-Based Strategies is currently -- or has facilitated -- train-the-trainer initiatives in Motivational Interviewing: · Los Angeles County Probation (Juvenile Probation & Facilities) · Wyoming Department of Corrections · Hawaii District - Federal Probation and Pretrial Services · State of Nebraska – Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center – Kearney, NE · South Central Behavioral Health Services – Grand Island, Nebraska · Mid-Plains Center for Behavioral Healthcare Services – Kearney, NE · Utah Department of Corrections · Montgomery County Juvenile Court – Dayton, Ohio · Montgomery County Adult Community Corrections – Dayton, Ohio · Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards · Brazoria County – Texas, Community Corrections Department · Bay-Arenac Community Mental Health, Bay City, Michigan · Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole __________________________________________________________________________________ **Publication Update Our Center Director has co-authored a new 100 page monograph for the NIC: Motivating Offenders to Change: A Guide for Probation and ParoleView/Download )· Walters, Scott T. · Clark, Michael D. · Gingerich, Ray · Meltzer, Melissa L.Source(s) · National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC)DPublished 2007. 100 pages. Related Topics · Parole (Offender Management) · Probation (Offender Management) · Rehabilitation (Offender Services) This publication "provides probation and parole officers and other correctional professionals with both a solid grounding in the principles behind MI [motivational interviewing] and a practical guide for applying these principles in their everyday dealings with offenders" (p.2). Seven chapters are contained in this guide: how MI fits in with evidence-based practice; how and why people change; the motivational interviewing style; preparing for change; building motivation for change; navigating through tough times--working with deception, violations, and sanctions; and from start to finish--putting MI into practice. Accession Number: 022253 Citation: (June 2007) Walters, Scott T., Clark, Michael D., Gingerich, Ray & Meltzer, Melissa, “Motivating Offenders To Change: A Guide for Probation & Parole Officers” Practice Monograph, National Institute of Corrections (NIC) – US Department of Justice. (NIC Accession number 022253) You can download a copy from NIC at:_______________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Director has also co-authored a Federal Probation two-part article seriesthat includes: • (December, 2005) Clark, Michael D., "Motivational Interviewing for Probation Staff: Increasing the Readiness to Change." Federal Probation (United States Courts). Vol. 69 (2). 22-28. [Part One of Two Parts] Click here to dowload the full article • (June, 2006) Clark, Michael. D., Walters, S. T., Gingerich, R., & Meltzer, M. “Motivational Interviewing for Probation Officers: Tipping the Balance Towards Change.” Federal Probation. (United States Courts). Vol. 70 (1). 38-40. [Part Two of Two Parts] Click here to dowload the full article
The American Probation and Parole Association two-part article series includes:• (Winter 2006) “Entering the Business of Behavior Change: Motivational Interviewing for Probation Staff” Perspectives. Journal of the American Probation & Parole Association. Vol. 30 (1). 38-45. [Part One of Two Parts] Click here to download the full article
• (June, 2006) Clark, Michael. D., Walters, S. T., Gingerich, R., & Meltzer, M. “Motivational Interviewing for Probation Officers: Tipping the Balance Towards Change.” Federal Probation. (United States Courts). Vol. 70 (1). 38-40. [Part Two of Two Parts] Click here to download the full article
Michael has also published the first article that speaks to probation executives for implementing Motivational Interviewing within their deparements:(Spring, 2006) Clark, Michael D., “Motivational Interviewing and the Probation Executive: Entering Your Department into the Business of Behavior Change” Executive Exchange, Journal for the National Association of Probation Executives ISSN: 1075-2234. 17-22 Click here to download full article
Mr. Clark has recently finished authoring an article on Motivational Interviewing for Child Welfare staff is one of the very few publications applying this appraoch to abuse and neglect work here in the United States:(Submitted) Clark, Michael D., “Motivational Interviewing for Child Welfare: Motivation, Change Talk & Positive Outcomes”
Motivational Interviewing for Challenging Clients:
A Direct Practice Series to Increase Outcomes
The CSBS offers two 2-day trainings in Motivational Interviewing and a third initiative that allows departments and agencies to continue to build model fidelity and direct practice skills. Descriptions of these three curriculums are provided in the following links:
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Motivational Interviewing 
