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.)
Over the first three years of the series, the WICHE Mental Health Program developed 22 mental health training sessions on key topics identified by CMHS and the WICHE mental health program. At the end of year three, the WICHE Mental Health Program submitted a Promising Practices Report that identified 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.
2008-2009 National Rural Behavioral Health Webinar Series, sponsored by the Federal Interagency Rural Behavioral Health Workgroup, in collaboration with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention, National TA Center for Children's Mental Health, as well as the Technical Assistance Partnership.
Click here for information on the first webinar!
ARCHIVED RURAL MENTAL HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS WEBCASTS
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