The National Council for Behavorial Healthcare

Resources & Services: E-Learning

E-Learning offers a convenient and cost-effective option for continuing education, career development, and staff training. Through an exclusive partnership with Essential Learning, the National Council offers e-learning options customized to your needs.

Staff training persists despite cuts; many agencies turn to online formats
Community mental health agencies are seeing a variety of benefits in moving more toward online training, from cost, productivity and staff satisfaction standpoints...
Mental Health Weekly article reprint, May 10, 2010.


Learning Management Systems

Individual Courses for CE


New Courses and Hot Topics

Complete Course Library


Elevate Learning Management Systems

Brought to you by the National Council in partnership with Essential Learning, the organizational Learning Management System  offers affordable workforce development solutions for agencies ranging in size from 40–6,000+ employees. The LMS is an easy-to-use online system (no special hardware or software required) that lets you deliver, assign, track, and report on mandatory employee training for OSHA, HIPAA, Joint Commission, COA, CARF, URAC, NCQA, EAGLE, and other licensing and accreditation requirements while saving significantly on training costs.

Get unlimited access to more than 400 courses on clinical, recovery, and compliance topics with CE credits. Track, assign, and report on all your employees’ trainings with ease.

National Council members can purchase the Learning Management System at a 10% discount. Register for a demo to see what the system can do for you.


Individual Courses for CE

Behavioral healthcare professionals at all levels can take online courses from anywhere, at any time — all you need is Internet access. You can select courses from a comprehensive, continuously updated library that covers clinical and business issues in mental health and addictions treatment and rehabilitation. Select a course, read or listen to the course materials, complete the online exercises, and take your test! As soon as you pass the test with a score of 80% or higher you will be able to print your CE credit certificate.

Browse our complete course library and purchase mental health and addictions courses to earn CE credits.

Learn about our $99 package, that allows ulimited access to 99 of the most popular accredited courses.

National Council member organizations receive a 10% discount on  courses. To get the discount code, go to the Member Login page, email Communications@thenationalcouncil.org or call 202.684.3740.


New Courses and Hot Topics

For more topics, browse our complete course library