PMHCA Awardees

PMHCA and MMHSUD TA Opportunity: Get hands-on Technical Assistance (TA) help for local data collection and management through upcoming office hours
 

When: Thursday, April 4, 2024. Drop in anytime using the link below at your convenience between 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST.
 

Where:  Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 224 871 887 802
Passcode: 6d7W3H


The MCHB TA Innovation Center is offering drop-in office hours to assist PMHCA and MMHSUD program staff with program evaluation. Subject matter experts from Windrose Vision will support your team in the planning, design, and implementation of an evaluation of your program by providing guidance on evaluation tools and strategies. A sampling of the areas of TA being offered include:

• Spreadsheet development and data tracking 
• Selecting primary program evaluation questions 
• Selecting measures and instruments to align with program goals 
• Identifying available data 
• Collecting new data 
• Power and sampling strategies 
• Data analysis

This is an exciting opportunity for you to explore ideas and find solutions to your data collection challenges, as well as methods to measure outcomes for your program. This session will offer 1:1 TA while also providing an opportunity to hear challenges and solutions among peers.
 

Please drop-in during this hour to ask questions about evaluation strategies and practices for your PMHCA or MMHSUD program. We look forward to seeing you!

Thank you,

MCHB TA Innovation Center Team
 

EIIC’s PMCHA Quality Improvement Collaborative 

A quality improvement collaborative (or QI collaborative) provides a framework and structure for teams and their project work. Collaboratives bring together stakeholders from various groups for a specified period of time to address a specific topic. The EIIC’s focus for this collaborative is to create access to mental and behavioral health resources and services in emergency departments. The collaborative will consist of the following materials and activities: access to our quality improvement educational guide; two large-group report-out sessions (February and September), and four focused working sessions (three in April and one in July). 

• Quality Improvement Educational Guide (Asynchronous): PMHCA teams will be provided a guide on quality improvement science that will help align PMHCA knowledge with healthcare QI methods for their ED expansion projects. Teams will use this guide to help identify a QI project of their own. 
• Large-Group Report Outs: During these meetings, teams will report on their projects to the larger PMHCA community. During the February session, teams will present the following: their identified project, project scope, and SMART aims. During the September session, PMHCA teams will share their implementation work and what was learned.
• Focused Working Sessions: These sessions will allow for smaller groups to focus on specific aims, such as provider-to-provider consultation or ED staff education. Together they will identify key drivers and interventions, and create strategies to overcome obstacles.