e-Learning

tecLearningONLINE | Guided Tours | Federal Trainings | Other Trainings

About the Training Program
The Evaluation Center will have links to online courses and TEC created presentations/training sessions based on the needs of our population.

What types of training are available through the Evaluation Center?
Training at The Evaluation Center is offered in a variety of forms, including e-Learning through tecLearningONLINE™, multimedia presentations, and in some cases, in person training.

How does the Training Program work?
It's simple. Depending upon your needs and the type of training content available, you can elect to sign up and register for interactive training, or contact The Evaluation Center for more information and availability.

How can I get help from the Training Program?
If you would like more information on the program and/or specific course availability, please contact Steve Noyes at snoyes@hsri.org.

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tecLearningONLINE

What is tecLearningONLINE™?
tecLearningONLINE™ is a new initiative that The Evaluation Center has developed based on our printed toolkits and manuals. tecLearningONLINE™ provides additional support, instruction, and examples made available through courseware delivered online. Sample interactive demos are available through "Guided Tours," which are strictly introductory in nature, giving the visitor an overview to popular toolkits and manuals available from the Center.

What's the difference between "guided tours" and courses?
While guided tours offer only an overview of printed materials, courses through tecLearningONLINE™ provide in-depth instruction, complete with online testing and surveys. Courses also offer the potential for CEU's, and upon successful completion of a course, the learner is awarded a certificate from the Evaluation Center signifying that the learner participated in this online experience.

Course enrollment is free, but you must register before participating.

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Guided Tours

Guided Tour on Manuals & Workbooks
This tour is offered as an overview of what you will find in the toolkit on Manuals and Workbooks. The printed toolkit is designed to provide a step-by-step guide for preparing a manual or workbook for a practice. The toolkit identifies essential elements of manuals and workbooks, describes these elements, and provides exemplary illustrations of the elements.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p34636985/

Guided Tour of the Quality of Life Interview
This tour is offered as an overview of what you will find in the toolkit titled: “Evaluating Quality of Life for Persons with Severe Mental Illness.” “Quality of life” concerns have gained considerable currency throughout the entire field of health care evaluation during the past decade. Driving the movement toward quality of life research is a humanitarian concern about the overall well-being of patients, not just the status of their disease processes. The production of new measures has been so rapid from so many different specialties that the sheer volume of the measures and the concepts underlying them has produced considerable confusion. The printed toolkit is designed to facilitate the use of one of these measures, the Lehman Quality of Life Interview, Full and Brief version.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p33402421/

Guided Tour of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Fidelity
This promo is an overview of the toolkit that offers a working guide for the development of fidelity measures to be used in assessing the implementation of psychiatric rehabilitation program models. The printed toolkit describes the origins of fidelity measures and discusses their research and practical applications, reviews current models in psychiatric rehabilitation, and provides a detailed guide for developing fidelity measures.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p17933990/

Guided Tour of the Recovery Compendium Toolkit
This guided tour is an introductory overview of what you will find in “Can We Measure Recovery? A compendium of Recovery and recovery-related instruments” toolkit. The study of recovery in mental health and the development of instruments to measure it are in their infancy. One of the major challenges to studying recovery is that the concept of recovery is not well defined, so studies and instrumentation vary widely. The instruments in this collection have been found through an extensive review of mental health literature and through informal networking with recovery investigators.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p41607362/

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Presentations

Identifying and Developing Evidence-Based Practices
H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D., Director, the Evaluation Center@HSRI
The Center for Behavioral Health at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Suffolk University Department of Public Management, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, hosted "Implementing Evidence-Based Practices and Performance Measures for Massachusetts Mental Health Services: An Educational Forum" on September 28, 2005, at Brandeis University. The forum focused on issues of informing key stakeholders about the concept and status of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and performance measures in mental health. Presenters also spoke about what is needed for successful EBP implementation and ways key stakeholders could work together to support successful implementation. H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D., of the Evaluation Center@HSRI gave a presentation on "Identifying and Developing Evidence-Based Practices". The presentation (PS-07) can be downloaded here. Additional materials, including audio recordings from the forum, are available for download via http://www.sihp.brandeis.edu/shepard/evidence.html.

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Federal Trainings

NCCAM Online Continuing Education Series on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health, offers a free online continuing education series on complementary and alternative medicine. This lecture series offers health care professionals and the public the opportunity to learn more about complementary and alternative medicine therapies and the state-of-the-science about them through video lectures. Users who complete all the test chapters can generate an online certificate.
http://nccam.nih.gov/videolectures

National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month Multimedia Series
The Road to Recovery 2006 series will air nine Webcasts supporting the 17th annual observance of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. In addition to the Webcasts, visitors can pose questions about each Webcast to an expert in the field through an interactive feature - Ask the Expert. New this year are 60 second video podcasts for previewing trailers of the monthly Webcasts. Join host Ivette Torres, Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for these informative webcasts.
http://www.recoverymonth.gov/2006/multimedia/

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Grant Applicants Webcast Training
To provide an overview of the grants application process and direct interested parties to the latest information on its discretionary grants, SAMHSA has produced a short webcast. Anyone interested in applying for a SAMHSA grant is encouraged to view this program to ensure that they are clear on the latest application procedures and critical requirements. SAMHSA's goal is to have every grant application qualify for review, and this brief webcast provides important information that every applicant needs to know. The webcast and related resources are available online at:
http://grantstraining.samhsa.gov

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Multimedia Mental Health Education Effort
The campaign, “Mental Health: It’s Part of All Our Lives,” includes broadcast and print public service advertisements that seek to educate the public that mental illnesses are common and that recovery can be expected. The campaign is a three-year initiative in eight states: California, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. The materials are available by calling 1.800.789.2647 or 1.866.889.2647 (TDD) or by visiting http://www.allmentalhealth.samhsa.gov (English) or http://www.nuestrasaludmental.samhsa.gov (Spanish).

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Other Trainings

Michigan Public Health Training Center's Measuring Health Disparities Interactive CD-ROM
Measuring Health Disparities is a self-paced, interactive CD-ROM course which focuses on some basic issues for public health practice -- how to understand, define and measure health disparity. This CD-ROM examines the language of health disparity to come to some common understanding of what that term means; it also shows how to calculate different measures of health disparity.
http://www3.sph.umich.edu/mphtc/courses/one-online-course.cfm?id=103

WICHE Mental Health Program Rural Mental Health Grand Rounds Webcasts
The Mental Health Program at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) has produced a series of ten (10) Rural Mental Health Grand Rounds Webcasts. Topics include, but are not limited to, evidence-based practice, rural behavioral health workforce development, telemedicine, rural recovery-based care, and services within Native American tribal communities.
http://wiche.edu/mentalhealth/Grand_Rounds/

Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Resources
Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation provides training using the technologies developed at the Center. Resources include online courses and webcasts.
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/training/

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