Upcoming Live Webinars:
The Go-To Place for Learning how to Showcase Your Children’s Advocacy Center: CALiO™
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Presented by: Muriel K. Wells, MEd, MLIS and Amanda Jarrett, BS
Target Audience - Administration/Multidisciplinary Teams
Course Description: When you need to provide accurate statistics or children’s advocacy center (CAC) efficacy information to stakeholders, legislators, community members, and others, you need the Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO™). When you need research you can use to write outstanding grant proposals or accreditation applications, you need CALiO™. When you need to publicize and market your outstanding multidisciplinary team and services offered, you need CALiO™. In this interactive webinar the National Children’s Advocacy Center’s Digital Information Librarian and Marketing Manager will demonstrate how to use CALiO™ to find the resources and information you need through live demonstrations of search strategies and resource retrieval. You will also discover the secrets to bolstering your digital marketing efforts. (Hint - what you need is already installed on your computer!)
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Perform targeted searches for location of marketing resources and how to use them effectively
- Find the most up-to-date statistics and research for reports and other documents
- Identify the relevant research to demonstrate the efficacy of the CAC model
Muriel K. Wells, MEd, MLIS – Muriel has served as Digital Information Librarian at the National Children’s Advocacy Center in Huntsville, AL for ten years. She maintains the digital Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO™) and provides reference services to professionals across many disciplines who serve child victims and their families. Muriel is also a retired first grade teacher. She received her Master’s in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama in 2008. Her doctoral research has included numerous research publications and conference presentations on library services to special populations and on digital library initiatives.
Amanda Jarrett, BS– Amanda is the Marketing Manager for the National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) in Huntsville. She is responsible for the marketing of the NCAC Training Center and engaging the local community in the NCAC’s mission. Amanda has been with the agency since May 2018. Her background includes 15 years in television news at the NBC affiliate in Huntsville. She received her Bachelor’s in Marketing from the University of North Alabama, Florence, AL. Amanda is pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
The Challenges of Tele-Mental Health: Technology and Cross-State Considerations
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. C.T.
Presented by: Josh Kohrumel, MPH and Jonathan Neufeld
Target Audience - General (in particular CAC Executive Directors, Clinical Directors, clinicians, mental health partner agencies, legal, IT/operations staff)
Course Description: This webinar will provide an overview of the practical considerations of implementing tele-mental health, with a focus on technology (e.g., hardware, software, bandwidth, HIPAA, and issues), when providing services across state lines, including licensing and legal considerations.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Understand how tele-mental health can be an effective option for child advocacy centers to deliver evidence-based practices.
- Understand the basic technological requirements for delivering tele-mental health in a HIPAA compliant manner and where to access additional information.
- Understand the implications of delivering mental health services across state lines and how to ensure you are staying within the law and your licensure.
Josh Kohrumel, MPH – Josh Kohrumel currently serves as the Chief Data Officer for Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. In this capacity he is responsible for Data Strategy, Information Security, Innovation and Business technologies, which includes oversight of analytics, enterprise resource planning and other business systems, reporting, integration/interface development, web services, database administration, project services, Epic application security, PeopleSoft application security, core Information Security (DLP, AV, web filtering, forensics, incident response, etc.), enterprise architecture, mhealth, telemedicine and other emerging technologies. Before serving as Chief Data Officer, Josh was the Director of the Portfolio Management Office for Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. Josh recently served on the Board of the Association for Executives in Healthcare IT Applications as the vice chair and currently serves on the Public Policy Committee for the Association for Executives in Healthcare IT Technology. Josh has spoken at several conferences across the country covering topics ranging from Epic implementations, information security and health care analytics. He was also recently named to the list of 30 rising health IT stars by Health Data Management. Josh has over 15 years of experience overseeing various aspects of EMR implementations and leveraging of health information technology at several different organizations, including Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, Southern California Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente) and the Veterans’ Health Administration. Predating his health care technology work, Josh has 7 years of clinical research experience. He has a background in Health Policy and Management, earning a Master/s in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor’s of science degree in biochemistry and cell biology from the University of California, San Diego.
Jonathan Neufeld, PhD - Jonathan is Program Director of the Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center in Minneapolis, MN. He joined gpTRAC in February of 2017, having previously served as the Clinical Director of the Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center in Indianapolis, IN. Jonathan has consulted on a wide range of projects related to rural health and telehealth over the past 15 years. He has presented at numerous regional and national conferences and published peer-reviewed articles in the fields of telemedicine, clinical decision support, mental health services evaluation, and clinical outcomes. He was formerly the Vice President of Information Technology and Integrated Care at Oaklawn Psychiatric Center in Goshen, IN. In this role, he oversaw the IT programs and services at Oaklawn as well as leading a team of clinicians providing mental and behavioral health services in primary care settings across Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties. Oaklawn has been using telehealth technology since 2011.Please Note: Training Certificate are not available for webinars.
Archived Webinars
All archived webinars are listed in the online training catalog. Questions? Please contact the NCAC Virtual Training Center.
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Supported by Grant No. 2017-CI-FX-K001 awarded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
