WICHE applied for and received CMHS funding for the development of a “virtual” Grand Rounds series, conducted via electronic web casts, to provide rural and frontier mental health professionals with access to training on key topics emergent in mental health practice today. The web cast format not only provides for real-time and asynchronous training opportunities for rural/frontier staff, but creates over time an archive of training material for the field. Participation will also qualify for the provision of CME and CEU hours. (Please note: CME/CEU hours are available up to 1 year after the web cast is broadcast.)

The WICHE Mental Health Program uses the Elluminate Live! java application for delivering web casts. Elluminate is a leading provider of live web conferencing and eLearning. This format ensures the best user experience through superior quality communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support, and advanced yet easy-to-use moderator tools. Elluminate’s design creates a rich, collaborative environment for live remote training. ALL participants have the same experience—including people with disabilities and those in remote, rural areas.

Over the first two years of the series, the WICHE Mental Health Program developed 18 mental health training sessions on key topics identified by CMHS and the WICHE mental health program. Year three consisted of four broadcasts - two topics of which were required by CMHS and two in coordination with the WICHE Mental health program and CMHS. At the end of this series, the WICHE Mental Health Program submitted a Promising Practices Report that identifies promising rural practices -- including mental health promotion, prevention of mental illness and substance abuse, and treatment practices, across the lifespan. The report included a description of the practice, the target population, challenges to implementation, strategies for meeting those challenges, and lessons learned.

All presentations are approximately 90 minutes in length, and archived on the WICHE web site enabling those unable to view the live broadcast to view the training sessions at any time afterward. There will be no cost to the training consumer for viewing the web cast live or asynchronously, and minimal costs for those wishing to obtain CD formats.

Best Practices in Collaborative Health Care

by Dr. Alexander Blount Ed.D
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Massachusetss - Worcester

Objectives:
1. Particiapnts will be able to sort collaborative programs into categories and know the evidence related to each category of program.
2. Participants will be able to discuss the behavioral health needs in primary care.
3. Participants will be able to describe the barriers and strengths to methods of implementation of integrated care programs.

Click here to view this web cast asynchronously.

Click here for the presentation

Follow this link for the survey

PLEASE NOTE, YOU WILL NEED A JAVA APPLICATION to view this web cast asynchronously. It is highly recommended you go through the downloads prior to the start of the session.

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ARCHIVED RURAL MENTAL HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS WEBCASTS

If you are interested in obtaining one or more web casts on CD format, please email Jenny Shaw (jshaw@wiche.edu).