What's here?

This lays out the training schedule for one of the Modified training plans which is an alternative to the well established AMBIT Basic Five Day Training
There is also an International Train the Trainer (TTT) Model that compresses the dispersed training days from this model into a single week, with web-based supervision to support AMBIT Local Trainers once they have returned to their local teams.
There are Local TTT Videos that capture most of the didactic material in this training, and these Videos are also dispersed around the manual to enrich the text.

The model and rationale:

5 days of training for a new role - AMBIT Local Trainers (ALTs). There are some FAQ's specifically for this role: LOCAL trainers FAQs

In between sessions AMBIT Local Trainers will be training their local teams - the intention is to support better implementation by developing more local ownership of the model and training, and leaving teams with more local expertise, supported by Training exercises and other materials in this web-based manual.

We will provide a mix of on-site training days (5 in all - dispersed in blocks in the standard TTT model, but compressed into a single week in the International Train the Trainer (TTT) Model.

Between these sessions (or after them for international trainees) the trainee AMBIT Local Trainers will deliver Local Training sessions - see Local Training sessions (TTT): some core ideas and structure. They will be supported by extensive training materials in this manual in this task, and by each other via an AMBIT Lead peer-to-peer system.

Basic training stance for the AFC's training for trainers:

2 trainers are present at any time:

• One in the role of "Training"
• The other in the role of "Training to train"

Pre-training phase

• Teams wanting to embark on this must follow the AMBIT Training Application Process
• Managers from the teams MUST attend an Engagement meeting in order to:
• Ensure full managerial support
• Clarify the team's Post-training outcome goals
• Clarify dates, etc
• AMBIT Local Trainers are selected. Teams put them forward, AFC team oversees selection based on combination of criteria and local recommendations:
• Have some authority in the team
• Enthusiasm for the model and role
• Have some experience of delivering training
• Moderate confidence in using a web-based app
• Teams receive and complete set reading list before the first training day:
• Bevington D, Fuggle P (2012) Supporting and enhancing mentalization in community outreach teams...
• Bevington et al (2012) Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT)
• AMBIT book (when published!)

Training Schedule

Training Block One (2 days at AFC)

TTT - Day 1

TTT - Day 2

Between Blocks: Local training sessions (run by ALTs)

1. Local Session 01: What is AMBIT?

2. Local Session 02: What is AMBIT training for?

3. Local Session 03: Mentalization

Training Block Two (2 days at AFC, 6-8 weeks after Block One).

TTT - Day 3

TTT - Day 4

Between blocks:Local training sessions (run by ALTs)

4. Local Session 04: Working with your Team

5. Local Session 05: Working with your Networks

6. Local Session 06: Working with your Client pt. 1 (Mentalizing stance)

Training Block 3 (1 day at AFC.)

TTT - Day 5

Post-training local (ALT-led) trainings sessions

7.Local Session 07: Working with your Client pt.2 (Hard to reach)

8. Local Session 08: Review (1) and Auditing Team Practices

9. Local Session 09: Working with your Client pt.3 (Outcomes)

10. Local Session 10: Review (2) and Top-up plans

11. Local Session 11: Making a real difference - Implementation Science

• Monthly Remote Supervision
• a. Remote supervision with a named AMBIT trainer to support training, implementation, and practice
• b. Monthly 30 minute telephone supervision sessions using our teleconferencing system
• c. Once a quarter the monthly telephone supervision will be replaced by an hour-long webinar using our web-conferencing system. You can dial in to this on the telephone if you are not able to access the web conferencing platform.
• c. See Using Tele-supervision: a guide for participants

Assessment and accreditation

This is a new development in AMBIT, and is currently being refined:

The AMBIT Post Training Assessment This is a voluntary assessment of a team's competence in AMBIT knowledge and skills, conducted at least a year after training. If completed it leads to accreditation as an AMBIT-accredited team. We see this as the equivalent as a "quality kitemark" for teams working under the influence of AMBIT, with the possibility of moving towards a "membership" model that would carry certain advantages in terms of access to new training opportunities for that team, the opportunity to become satellite AMBIT training centres, and to influence the development of new content in AMBIT.

One year Review and Consultation

• TTT-One Year Review and Consultation Meeting - this will be developed as the first training progresses so as to adapt to the needs of the pilot group
• At the AFC?
• Locally?
• Who to attend? Whole teams? Implementation Teams? Needs clarification over the course of the pilot project.

Additional issues and considerations

A International Train the Trainer (TTT) Model exists, similar to this model, but the 5 AFC training days are completed consecutively over the course of a week, with the in-house training occurring afterwards with online supervision to support this.

The AMBIT Lead peer-to-peer system is intended to support this model; whereby AMBIT Leads and AMBIT Local Trainers from different local teams are paired together - so that they can attend each others’ ‘in house’ trainings (preferably on a quid pro quo basis to reduce costs to local teams), helping to train neighbouring/other teams as well as their own, and in so doing offering a supportive outside perspective.