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The University at Buffalo Motivational Interviewing Center provides high-quality training, consultation, and implementation support services to UB, the greater Western New York Community, and beyond. These services include presentations, workshops, and coaching, as well as support for learning communities, educators, researchers, and administrators. Service packages are developed collaboratively to address the goals, preferences, and available resources of our clients, with an emphasis on long-term support of learners and organizations.

We work with training clients locally in the Buffalo area, across New York State, and nationally. Recent trainees have included interdisciplinary groups of nursing, counseling, and social work graduate fellows in a behavioral health training program administered by the UB School of Nursing, interdisciplinary care management and care navigation teams at Great Lakes Integrated Network, infant toddler mental health consultants working with Early Care & Learning Council, family advocates at Child Advocacy Program of Chautauqua County, staff and supervisors at Jamestown Community Learning Council, counselors, other staff, and supervisors at the New York State Commission for the Blind, counselors and supervisors at Northpointe Council, and centralized access point resource specialists at three systems affiliated with the Help Me Grow national network. A recent blog post highlights our work with the Orange County, CA affiliate of Help Me Grow. We have also worked with Forward Leading IPA through their Bright Start Connect program to collaborate on design of motivational interviewing training for diverse providers in pediatric settings. More information about our work can be found in a recent story published in UB’s faculty/staff online newspaper.

Window views of Buffalo from inside the Medical School Building.
Window views of Buffalo from inside the Medical School Building. Photographer: Douglas Levere