Education for Everyone Who Serves the LGBTQ+ Community
For 48 years, we’ve served Houston’s LGBTQ+ community. Now we’re sharing what we’ve learned.
The Montrose Center Training Institute launched this week as a central hub for LGBTQ+ affirming education. Whether you’re earning peer specialist certifications, maintaining your license with CEUs, building a more inclusive workplace, or simply expanding your own knowledge, the Training Institute brings together decades of expertise into one accessible resource.
Advance your career. Transform your organization. Serve the queer community better.
Why Learn With Us?
The Montrose Center brings unparalleled credentials to every course we offer:
- Texas’s first Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) since 2016
- Joint Commission accredited since 2003 for quality and exemplary service
- Behavioral Health Home designation since 2015
- 48 years of continuous behavioral health service to the Houston community
- 50+ strategic collaborations with organizations across Harris County
- National recognition as a leader in LGBTQ+ services
Our Training Institute leverages this breadth of experience and highly qualified educators to deliver evidence-based, practical training that transforms organizational culture and improves service delivery for LGBTQ+ individuals and communities.
Training for Every Need
For Individuals:
- Become a certified Recovery Support Peer Specialist (RSPS), Mental Health Peer Specialist (MHPS) and more
- Earn your Certified Public Health Worker credential
- Attend free workshops on LGBTQ+ health, history, and community issues
- Grow personally and professionally with training grounded in lived experience
For Licensed Professionals:
- Maintain your licensure with affordable, quality CEU courses
- Gain advanced competency in LGBTQ+ affirming care practices
- Learn from experts with lived cultural experience
For Organizations & Businesses:
- Build inclusive, thriving workplaces with custom DEI solutions
- Develop affirming organizational culture through corporate ally training
- Access tailored workshops designed for teams of any size
About Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
The Training Institute is approved to offer CEUs for a range of social work, counseling, and community health professions. Many of our CEU courses are offered at affordable rates as part of our commitment to accessible education.
Approved CEU credentials include:
- Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
- Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
- Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC)
- Master of Social Work (MSW)
- Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)
- Registered Social Work Practitioner (RSPS)
- Mental Health Peer Specialist (MHPS)
- Community Health Worker (CHW)
Please note: CEUs are not currently available for physicians, nurses, or other medical licensures.
What’s on the Calendar
Free Virtual Presentations: Our Community Dialogue and LGBTQ+ Health series cover timely topics like asexual identities, diet culture and LGBTQ+ health, youth bullying, tobacco industry targeting of LGBTQ+ communities, and more. These one-hour sessions are held virtually via Zoom and are open to everyone.
Peer Specialist Certification Programs:
- CORE Training — The prerequisite foundation for peer support certification (19.5 hours, $250)
- Recovery Support Peer Specialist (RSPS) — For individuals with lived addiction recovery experience (40 hours, $550)
- Mental Health Peer Specialist (MHPS) — For individuals with lived mental health recovery experience (40 hours, $550)
Certification trainings are held in person at the Montrose Center. Lived experience with substance use or mental health challenges and recovery is required for peer specialist programs.
Coming Late 2026: Certificate Program
The Training Institute will expand later this year to offer a comprehensive certificate program for individuals, organizations, and businesses. Completion of the certification program will recognize demonstrated LGBTQ+ cultural competency, establishing a standard of excellence for inclusive care and workplace practices.
Get Started
Programs are open now with more offerings throughout 2026. Explore our full course calendar and register today.
Contact Us:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 713-529-0037