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MJM Training

Learning for the Future

MJM Training provides training for direct care staff working in group homes, STRTP’s, or with the developmentally disabled population. Our vision is to bring inspiration and innovation to every direct care staff in the Central Valley and throughout California.

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About MJM Training

We believe that every direct care staff member bears something unique within themselves. MJM Training will help develop and cultivate the uniqueness within.


Our mission is to deliver training services that help direct care staff members reach their full potential safely, happily, and successfully with the desire to enhance their career path.

Training is required to help every staff member become better qualified to work with children, adolescents, adults, and individuals with varying circumstantial backgrounds.


Our goal is to provide “Learning For The Future”


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Meet Trena Dixon

CEO and Founder of MJM Training, Trena Dixon has 28 years of experience working in group homes and counseling disadvantaged youth. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Services, is certified in Computer Business and has held an Administrator's Certificate and worked as an administrator in the state of California, for 24 years.


Mrs. Dixon is currently the Program Coordinator and Corporate Trainer at a STRTP facility in Fresno. She previously worked as the Program Director for an adult day program where she coordinated and developed the training curriculums. 


With a wealth of the knowledge and multiple years of experience, Trena will provide your direct care staff and facility managers with the necessary tools to reach their full potential safely, happily, and successfully with the desire to enhance their career path while “Learning For The Future.”

Trena Dixon
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Training

Group home and STRTP training courses are designed for either direct care or administrative staff. Classes are available on-site or at an MJM Training location.

Group Bonding

Cultural Diversity

This four-hour training is designed to improve the skills of direct care staff working with children from different cultural backgrounds. The training covers the importance of understanding cultural diversity, how to work with others from different cultures, and the expectations direct care staff may have with the youth being placed in their home.

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Child Empowerment

This four-hour training is designed to improve the skills of direct care staff and administrators working with children to help them learn patience and responsibility but also to give the child a voice and something to care for.

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Discipline Policies and Procedures, Positive Discipline, and Importance of Self-Esteem

This four-hour training teaches the participant acceptable forms of discipline and behaviors that may customarily result in discipline. The importance of notes, records, and follow-up to evaluate subsequent therapeutic goals and objectives.

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Substance Abuse Issues

This two-hour training presents a brief discussion about what to do if your teen has a problem with drugs. The course is designed for the direct care staff and administrator of at-risk children, intended to protect the licensee,  direct care staff and administrator against stressors occurring in their lives which could affect their job duties and that of the child.

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Child and Adolescent Development, Including Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression

This two-hour course will cover how children learn about gender roles, stages of gender development in early childhood, and what programs can do.

Contact us for more information regarding additional training topics.

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2nd Home, Inc. has had the pleasure of having Trena head our agency's training program for the past several years.  She was instrumental in the development and approval of our STRTP (Short Term Residential Treatment Program) Training Program.


Trena's training topics are extremely informative, very organized and engaging.  As a leader in the residential care industry for 25 plus years, she is exceedingly well versed and knowledgeable in all areas of regulation and requirements. From her many years of experience, she is able to share some of her personal stories and successes.  We at 2nd Home, Inc. have found this information and style of training to be a huge asset to our staff.

Jennifer Fish
Director
2nd Home, Inc.

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