RURAL MENTAL HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS WEB CAST
Better Todays. Better Tomorrows. For Children's Mental Health.
Ann D. Kirkwood, MA
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Web cast Learning Objectives
- Participants will learn how telemedicine technologies can be used to enhance service delivery to rural populations
- Specific case example from work with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations will be used to illustrate the implementation process for telemedicine technologies
- Participants will become familiar with the menu of telemedicine technologies available in health care
Ann
D. Kirkwood, MA
Senior Research Associate
Idaho State University, Boise Center
Institute of Rural Health
Ms. Kirkwood specializes in adult education and social
marketing and has directed the Better Todays. Better Tomorrows.
school- and community-based mental health program since its inception.
She has attained promising practice designation for Better Todays
from the NCTSN. She directed public relations, public involvement
and strategic planning for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
for nine years before joining Idaho State University in the fall
of 2000. She has been active in the International Association of
Public Participation and received certification as a public participation
professional in 2004. She managed a mental health anti-stigma multi-media
campaign that won an International George Peabody award for excellence
in broadcasting, an excellence in public information award from
the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and an excellence in
public broadcasting award from the National Educational Television
Association.
Ms. Kirkwood also worked for 18 years as a reporter, editor and
publisher at various newspapers across the United States, including
at one in a Tlingit community in Southeast Alaska, winning two national
awards for editorial writing from the National Newspaper Association
and numerous regional and state awards for reporting and editing.
She serves as chair of the Awareness Committee for SPAN Idaho, participated
in writing the State Suicide Plan in 2003 and sits on the Idaho
State Board of Psychologist Examiners. She serves on the Technology
and Communication Task Force and school mental health committees
for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, of which she is
a member. Under the NCTSN grant, she services on the Consumer, Community
& Survivor Work Group and is chair of the curriculum and education
committee of the Schools Work Group.
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This web cast was produced to meet a range of continuing education needs for professional and allied mental health staff currently working in rural and frontier areas.
There will be no cost to the training consumer for viewing the web cast asynchronously and minimal costs for those wishing to obtain CD formats.
Costs are $10.00 per CD.
For those wishing to obtain CD formats of the Grand
Rounds series, costs are as follows:
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Each additional web cast (on same CD) - $8.00
All 9 web casts - $60.00 (to be sent out after the last web cast)
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