New CANS Trainings Registration Platform and Protocol | CIPCCOE iTacit
To register for the iTacit platform, you must create an individual iTacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
The Center for Innovative Practices (CIP) and the Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (COE), as a training and technical assistance center, utilizes the “iTacit” Learning Management System.
The learning management system provides one centralized electronic hub where our learners can access:
– Our full catalog of training events and training modules
– New asynchronous training offerings
– Live virtual training event registration links
– An individual, personalized user profile of trainings completed by user
– User profile with certificates of attendance and/or CE certificates earned.
To improve user experience improve user experience, we have eliminated “step 2: of the registration process “completining the zoom registration link”.
Please review the updated steps outlined in the attached PDF of instructions. Enrollment in courses is now a 1-step process. Learner will receive their own “join link” the day before the training through push notification in their email sent vvia itacit messaging.
Download itacit instructions here.
TRAINING EVENTS ARE SPONSORED by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Ohio Department of Medicaid. These professional development events are free for Ohio’s System of Care workforce. If you are not a provider supporting Ohio’s System of Care, but are interested in a training, please click here to contact us.
Please review the following virtual training policies to ensure a productive and respectful learning environment.
1.Registration: Each person must be registered individually and use their unique link to join the Zoom training. A reconfirmation email was sent to registered persons which contained your link to this training. Your unique link is used for attendance purposes and verification for CEs.
2.Connection: Bandwidth issues: inform your agency and make plans to access a working connection. Chromebook or similar devices complicate your connection, and you will not be able to obtain chat information etc. Phoning in with audio (no video) cannot verify attendance, and you will be removed from the training.
3.Artificial Intelligence: To ensure a safe training experience, there is no AI permitted. Any AI present will be removed. Zoom auto transcripts are available.
4.Engagement: Please review your pre-training email with handouts (if available) before the training. Login on time and be prepared. Actively participate in group discussions and breakout rooms. Behaviors should be the same as in-person training, and limit multi-tasking activities (phone calls, side conversations or meetings, emails, driving in your car, being online in unrelated topics, etc.). Cameras must be on, and participants must be in view. If you do not have a working camera or wi-fi, please problem solve this before the day of training.
5.Earn CE/Attendance Certificate: You must attend at least 90% of the training (attending breaks does not qualify towards CE eligibility). After the training, you will receive a Qualtrics link to complete an evaluation survey. NOTE: If you’re licensed, the license number you provided will be uploaded to CE Broker, so you can access confirmation. Attendance certificates will continue to be emailed. Please allow 4 weeks for distribution, and check your Spam/Junk folder before reaching out.
Thank you again for joining us for this training. Please email cipcoetraining@case.edu if you have any questions.
CANS Trainings August-September 2026
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
The Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS assessment tool has been developed for broad application across multiple systems, including youth involved in child protection, developmental disability, department of youth services, and mental health and addiction. This training will satisfy the Ohio live training requirement and prepare participants to take the CANS certification exam.
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
August 7, 2026
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Presented by Amanda Gillespie
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
August 14, 2026
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Presented by Amanda Gillespie
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
August 19, 2026
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Presented by Michael Fox
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
August 31, 2026
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Presented by Rachel Sorg
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
September 8, 2026
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Presented by Michael Fox
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
September 18, 2026
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Presented by Amanda Gillespie
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
September 21, 2026
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Presented by Amanda Gillespie
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS Assessment and TCOM Training
September 25, 2026
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Presented by Rachel Sorg
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
5.5 CE available for: SW, PC, CD
CANS Assessment 101: The Initial Assessment – Guided Conversations and Collaborations
This training will introduce the Care Coordinator and their Supervisors to ethical issues commonly encountered in Wraparound and strategies for managing them. This training will include the following content areas: 1) Managing confidentiality in Wraparound; 2) Maintaining professional boundaries with all child and family team members; 3) Professional responsibilities for mandated reporting; 4) Working within your scope of practice; and 5) Managing ethical dilemmas.
3.0 CE for Pscyhologist, Counselor, Social Worker
CANS Assessment 101
September 1, 2026
9:00 a,m – 1:15 p.m.
Presented by Michael Fox
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
3.0 CE for Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers
CANS Assessment 102
This 3-hour training aids in identifying areas of challenges for collaborative youth and family engagements and offers guided strategies toward increasing success in this area. It is built on the foundations from the Ohio Children’s Initiative TCOM and CANS training and the CANS Assessment 101: The Initial Assessment – Guided Conversations and Collaborations training, though neither are prerequisite for attending this training. While the ideas and strategies are applicable to an initial CANS assessment, the greatest utility may be for those updating CANS with children/youth and their families and for Care Coordination.
3 CEs for: Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists, RNs/LPNs, Chemical Dependency Counselors
CANS Assessment 102
August 12, 2026
9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Presented by Michael Fox
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
3 CEs for: SW, C, Psych, RNs/LPNs, Chemical Dependency Counselors
CANS Booster Training
This session is ONLY for those staff who were certified in a previous version of the CANS and need to learn about the new components of the Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS version.
3 CEs for: Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists, RNs/LPNs, Chemical Dependency Counselors
CANS Booster Training
July 23, 2026
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Presented by Heather Distin
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
3 CEs for: SW, C, Psych, RNs/LPNs, Chemical Dependency Counselors
CANS for FFPSA Qualified Individuals and QRTP Training
Designed for professionals already certified in CANS. This training will teach participants how to administer the CANS in order to meet FFPSA requirements including, roles, responsibilities, family and permanency team engagement, engagement in “teaming”, use of the decision support model, crafting a concise justification and developing necessary court documentation.
3 CEs pending for SW, C, Psych, RN, LPN and Chemical Dependency Counselor
Ohio Children’s Initiative CANS for FFPSA Qualified Individuals and QRTP Training
September 24, 2026
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Presented by Heather Distin
To register for training, you must create an individual itacit account at cipcoe.itacit.com and once inside your account, register for individual trainings.
2.75 CEs pending for SW, C, Psych, RN, LPN and Chemical Dependency Counselor
Offered once per month on the fourth Thursday of each month from 9am-10:30am. (ending at 10am on non-practice vignette/experiential exercise dates) The learning community is designed to provide brief “deep dive” didactic advanced learning content combined with applied learning, reflective practice, field-based questions, and peer-to-peer group learning. The learning community will provide a place for continued competency development and practice refinement. Every month the learning community will be facilitated fully as a skills learning lab. Attendees at the skills learning lab will receive a child/youth vignette and break out into small groups to practice rating the various domain items together. The last half of the skills lab session will include the group coming back together to review the preferred ratings and discuss rationales. Register once and select the dates you would like to attend.
Offered once per month on the second Thursday of each month from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Designed for professionals to “drop in” and receive technical assistance on implementation, operations, and practice applications. Register once and select dates you would like to attend.