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Mental Health First Aid - Youth (Martha's Vineyard)

Free

with Theresa Wilson

Calendar Next available session starts Dec 4, 2025 at 9:30 am

Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The 6.5 hour course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and trauma, substance use, self-care and the impact of social media and bullying.

Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 from 9:30-4:30pm

Location: In person at Martha's Vineyard, TBD

The Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Community College and Cape & Island District Attorney's Office  to offer QPR, safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, CCAPE at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu.  

Mental Health First Aid

Free

with Theresa Wilson

Calendar Next session starts Dec 5, 2025 at 10:30 am

Date: Friday, December 5, 2025 from 10:30am-5:00pm

A skills-based training course that helps people identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance use issues.

This training covers: 

  • Common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges.
  • Common signs and symptoms of substance use challenges.
  • How to interact with a person in crisis.
  • How to connect a person with help.
  • Expanded content on trauma, substance use and self-care.

Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Class Format: In person training.

Location: Cape Cod Community College, Main Campus

The Cape & Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition and the Cape & Islands District Attorney's Office, have partnered with Cape Cod Community College to offer Mental Health First Aid, as well as QPR, safeTALK, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, Cape Cod Community College, at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu.  

Full Course

Intro to QuickBooks Online

$219

with Jane Joyce

Calendar Next available session starts Dec 5, 2025 at 1 pm

QuickBooks Online offers a powerful suite of features tailored for small businesses and contractors, making it easy to manage vendors, customers, and financial accounts—all in one place.

This course is designed to help you confidently navigate and utilize QuickBooks Online as your go-to accounting software. Whether you're new to QuickBooks or transitioning from a desktop version, you'll gain the essential skills needed to streamline financial management and improve efficiency.

Who Should Attend:
This course is ideal for beginners and intermediate users looking to enhance their QuickBooks expertise, whether for personal business use or professional development.

Course Format:
This course is offered using Zoom. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 

Working with Difficult People

$69

with Monet Viens

Calendar Next available session starts Dec 9, 2025 at 6 pm

We encounter difficult people in various places – at work, at the grocery store, at school, everywhere. At times, we are difficult ourselves. When difficult behavior arises, performance, morale, and relationships are negatively impacted. This course will give you the proper tools to deal with difficult people effectively. Additional learning points will include:

  • Understand what makes people difficult
  • Identify and examine your role in the behavior
  • Build better relationships

Who Should Attend?
This course is an excellent introduction or refresher for supervisors/managers, executives, owners, and HR professionals.  

About the Instructor:
For over 10 years, Monet Viens has been helping a wide variety of businesses with their HR and employee needs. As an adaptable and innovative HR professional, she has a keen ability to translate visions and strategies into actionable goals, strengthen processes, and increase efficiencies. 

Monet’s favorite aspect of human resources is training and development. Having been an HR department of 1 for her entire career, she enjoys coaching, mentoring, and guiding other professionals through the tricky waters of HR so they don’t have to learn the hard way. Monet’s initiatives extend beyond HR, as she also provides training and development in topics such as communication, supervisor skills, management, leadership, and much more. Monet currently teaches per-diem at Cape Cod Community College and Bristol Community College. She has also been a keynote speaker for NEHRA, SCORE, and the One SouthCoast Chamber.

Course Format: 
This course is offered via Zoom. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

 

Excel at Lunch: Pivot Tables and Protected Sheets

$49

with Elaine Moore

Calendar Next available session starts Dec 10, 2025 at 12 pm

Learn to use pivot tables to sort and organize data and build professional-looking reports containing large amounts of data in Microsoft Excel. This learning session will also cover the benefits of protected sheets and how to set them up and use them properly. Finally, we will cover spreadsheet best practices including tips and tricks to help you stay organized, like format painter, text wrapping, auto filling cells, and more! 

There will be time for questions after the hour presentation.

Class Format: 
Class is offered using Zoom.

Questions? 
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

Behavior Based Safety Certificate

$269
Calendar Next available session starts Dec 12, 2025 at 9 am

Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is essentially a behavioral intervention aiming to provide employees with effective feedback, reinforcement, and recognition of hazards. These hazards are not uncommon and can be found in many settings. 

This program helps improve safety conditions in the workplace and the recognition of other hazards present both in the workplace and potentially a home. The program is meant to educate and increase situational awareness of the employees based on hazard observations and unsafe behavioral observations. 

Training will cover:

  • The importance of creating a team that will initiate the BBS program.        
  • Listing behaviors that are deemed unsafe.         
  • Understanding and recognizing common but not well know hazards or potential hazards        
  • The importance of creating a BBS and hazard recognition checklist.        
  • Determine a system that can account for hazards both in the workplace and for remote or traveling employees and the environments they may encounter.        
  • Teaching and conducting behavioral observations in a workplace but also teaching what may constitute hazards in other settings remote from a fixed work environment.         
  • How to provide appropriate feedback depending on the behavior of the employees or how to address hazards once found in all settings.        
  • Use the data gathered from observing employees and make necessary changes.        
  • Using basic recognition techniques and mitigation skills to address and resolve common hazards        
  • Creating a system to report hazards both in and out of a normal work environment.        
  • Encourage employees to set achievable goals for both behavior based corrections and hazard corrections in all workplace environments

Course format:
This course is offered in-person.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

Information Session: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) / Home Health Aide (HHA)

Free

with Martina Groves-Williams

Calendar Next available session starts Dec 23, 2025 at 10 am
1 additional session on Jan 12, 2026

Are you ready to make a difference and step into a meaningful healthcare role? Join us for a free Information Session to learn about our CNA/HHA Certificate Program at Cape Cod Community College. 

What you will learn:

  • Program structure: hybrid format (Zoom + hands-on lab + clinical placement). 
  • Skills you’ll gain: vital signs, infection control, communication, patient care, ethical responsibilities.
  • Career pathways: hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers, home health agencies — plus a strong foundation for further health science education at Cape Cod Community College.
  • Admission requirements: age 18+, valid photo ID, CORI/SORI background check, immunizations/health insurance.
  • Program schedule & flexible options (day/evening/weekend) to fit your life. 

Why attend?

  • Ask your questions live: instructor will be on hand to walk you through the program and next steps.
  • Find out how you can begin quickly and gain credentials employers are looking for.
  • Explore how this certificate fits into your long-term goals in healthcare or allied fields.
  • Learn about support for English language learners and bridge options. 

Questions?
Contact: Martina Groves-Williams, Lead CNA Instructor/Coordinator, 774-330-4013 or email mgroveswilliams@capecod.edu

We look forward to helping you take the first step toward an impactful and rewarding healthcare career!

40-Hour Real Estate Salesperson Exam Prep Info Session

Free

with David Harris

Calendar Next available session starts Jan 6, 2026 at 4 pm

Join us to learn more about our 40-Hour Real Estate Salesperson Exam Prep Course starting on January 6, 2026, and meet our instructor, Dave Harris. Find out more about available scholarships as well! 

Massachusetts requires 40 hours of pre-license training prior to the real estate salesperson exam. Our course prepares students for the license exam. It is approved by the MA Board of Registration for fulfilling its licensing requirements. 

Course Format:
In-person at the Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center. 

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017. 





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