Welcome to the CiMH E-Learning page. Below are links to current E-Learning modules. These modules are intended to provide information in a timely and convenient manner to public mental health staff, managers, and students. These modules take about an hour to complete and can be stopped and continued if needed. Each module contains quizzes to help assess understanding.

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WWT: Overcoming Stigma and Discrimination in the Behavioral Health Workplace

An Introduction to Mental Health Services Act Prevention Program Evaluation

This course provides a detailed introduction to Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) prevention program evaluation design and implementation. The course presents evaluation strategies that are consistent with MHSA principles using the Center for Disease Control’s Six-Step model for public health program evaluation as a framework for developing and implementing prevention evaluation activities.

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WWT: Consumers in the Mental Health Workforce

Working Well Together (WWT) is a collaborative project composed of four statewide client, family, parent/caregiver and mental health training and technical assistance organizations: California Network of Mental Health Clients, NAMI California, United Advocates for Children and Families and the California Institute of Mental Health. Funded by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), the primary goal of the WWT is to ensure public mental health agencies are prepared to recruit, hire, train, support and retain multicultural clients, family members and parents/caregivers as employees. As such, WWT will produce E-Learning and Non E-Learning curricula to train both the mental health workforce and employees with lived experience as consumers and/or family members. The links below provide an ability to view the newly developed WWT E-Learning Component, "Consumers in the Mental Health Workforce", and covers basic concepts related to consumer employment.

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Understanding Behavioral and Primary Healthcare Integration and the Person-Centered Healthcare Home

As a result of national healthcare reform’s emphasis on “medical homes”, the mental health and primary care service delivery systems are expected to undergo dramatic changes over the next several years. Consistent with the spirit of MHSA (Prop 63), this system reform is expected to increase access to care, prioritize prevention and early intervention, and reduce disparities. However, California’s public mental health system is not prepared to manage the complexities of the pending transformation. This E-Learning Module is designed as a primer to help providers navigate the complex landscape of integration. Its chapters contain a basic overview of healthcare reform including universal coverage and parity, examples of integrated care, patient centered healthcare homes, and strategies for planning services. It also provides a description of the California Integration Policy Initiative as well as strategies counties can use to finance integrated care. This is just one of the many ways that California’s Department of Mental Health and CiMH are working together to prepare the state’s mental health community for the pending reforms. Please check our websites for additional webinars, conferences, and trainings that will keep you abreast of the latest information in healthcare reform and integration.

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Cultural Competence in County Mental Health

The California Institute for Mental Health presents this brief introduction to cultural competence and cultural inclusion in county mental health within the State of California. This module includes six components: 1) Complexity of Need within Diverse Populations, 2) A Brief Federal and State History, 3) The Definitions of Cultural Competency, 4) A Cultural Competent Organizational Design, 5) Development of Individual Competences, and 6) Resources.

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Consumer and Family Driven Services

This module provides a brief introduction to consumer and family member driven services in the California public mental health system. The learning includes a brief history of the consumer and family ‘civil rights’ movements, the definition of the Three D’s, mental health recovery and the family partnership model, and the importance of collaboration with the community.

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California Mental Health Services, A Brief Overview

This module gives a brief overview of the history of the recovery based mental health system, including a description of legislation and funding mechanisms that effect the current mental health system.

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Person-Centered Planning

This course gives an overview of Person-Centered Planning. Topics include a discussion of research findings and the steps involved in Person-Centered Planning. It is intended for clinicians and clinical supervisors, as well as those interested in recovery implementation.

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Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Essentials and Culturally Relevant Program Development

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the prevention and early intervention component of the Mental Health Services Act. Topics include: Elements of prevention and early intervention as defined in policy guidelines; distinctions between prevention, early intervention and treatment; and methods of planning and implementing culturally relevant prevention and early intervention services.

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Ethnic, Racial and Cultural Considerations When Integrating Consumers and Family Members into the Public Mental Health Workforce

 

 

 

Working Well Together (WWT) is a collaborative project composed of four statewide client, family, parent/caregiver and mental health training and technical assistance organizations: California Network of Mental Health Clients, NAMI California, United Advocates for Children and Families and the California Institute of Mental Health. Funded by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), the primary goal of the WWT is to ensure public mental health agencies are prepared to recruit, hire, train, support and retain multicultural clients, family members and parents/caregivers as employees. This E-Learning Module is one in a series of modules developed to ensure the workplace is welcoming and values employees with experience as consumers, parents and family members from diverse ethnic, racial and cultural communities. This e-learning module addresses concepts related to ethnicity, race, and culture in order to ensure a work environment that values ethnic, racial and cultural diversity and the unique contributions of all people. This module also demonstrates how to establish competent approaches for working with individuals and families from diverse backgrounds.

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