Behavioral Health Workforce Certification Programs
Turn lived experience, leadership, and a passion for service into a meaningful pathway in behavioral health, recovery, and reentry support. Through nationally recognized training and practical skill development, you can strengthen your ability to guide others toward healing, stability, and lasting transformation while building a future rooted in purpose.
Certified Trauma Coach (NCTC)
This training program provides a behavioral health career pathway and teaches how trauma impacts behavior, recovery, and emotional well-being. Learn trauma-informed support skills, healthy boundaries, effective communication, resilience tools, and when to refer someone to licensed clinical care. This certification is ideal for peer mentors, helping professionals, and justice-impacted individuals seeking to strengthen their ability to support others in recovery, reentry, and community settings.
Certified Recovery Coach
(NCRC)
Build practical skills in recovery support through the Certified Recovery Coach program. Develop tools for teaching relapse prevention and goal setting, initiating motivational engagement, boundary awareness, and learn to help others build stable, sustainable recovery plans. Designed for future recovery support professionals who are committed to helping others navigate recovery and lasting personal transformation.
Certified Prison Reentry Coach (NCPRC)
Strengthen your ability to support successful reintegration through the Prison Reentry Coach certification program. Gain hands-on strategies for release planning, personal accountability, community resource connection, structured decision-making, healthy limits, and helping returning citizens create a clear path toward stability and long-term progress. This certification is ideal for those preparing to serve in reentry-focused roles and make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals coming home from incarceration.
Certified Addictions Coach
(NCAC)
Obtain the knowledge and skills to support individuals working to overcome substance use disorder through the Addictions Coach certification program. Learn practical approaches for identifying addictive patterns, strengthening motivation for change, promoting personal responsibility, reinforcing healthy coping strategies, and helping others build a foundation for sustained recovery and improved well-being. Begin the path to working in the field of substance use disorder counseling and influence lasting change for those struggling with addiction.
Suitable Solutions Programs is proud to have partnered with
The Addictions Academy (TAA),
to provide affordable access to nationally recognized certifications that strengthen workforce readiness in trauma-informed care, recovery support, and reentry services.
Through this partnership, participants can pursue educational pathways such as Trauma Coach, Certified Recovery Coach, and Prison Reentry Coach—designed to build practical skills in peer support, emotional regulation, communication, healthy boundaries, relapse prevention, and successful reintegration.
This partnership also offers access to addictions counseling education for individuals seeking a more direct pathway into the substance use disorder field. Through TAA, a CCAPP-recognized SUD education provider, participants may pursue training that supports broader progress within California’s addictions counseling and behavioral health workforce.
Let us know if you have any questions about enrollment!