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 CPI News Brief     Volume 9 Issue 1 * January 2020

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Together, We're Accomplishing So Much !
CPI works with over a thousand programs and over twenty-thousand learners.
 
Together, we are increasing practitioners' knowledge, skills and competencies.
 
Together, we are implementing important practices and disseminating them across NYS.
 
Here's a small sample of what we've accomplished in 2019:

  • ACT Institute
    • redesigned the required ACT training to include transition care practices and role-based curricula (Team Leader, Nurse, Psychiatrist/Nurse Practitioner, Peer, Family, Substance Use, and Vocational Specialists) while enhancing Team Leaders' competencies in supervisory skills for these roles and associated evidenced-based practices
  • Cognitive Health
    • redesigned the cognitive health group discussion manual for state operated outpatient clinics and provided cognitive remediation services to 248 individuals at these clinics
    • implemented a cognitive health module for first episode psychosis at all OnTrackNY sites
  • Focus on Integrated Treatment (FIT)
    • provided both in-person and online training to increase the knowledge and skills staff need to treat people who have co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions, including tobacco use
  • Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Training
    • created/hosted required HCBS online training for 243 HCBS designated agencies and provided quarterly reports to state agencies
  • Improving Providers Assessment and Care Delivery and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (IMPACT-OCD)
    • conducted webinar to address common misconceptions of OCD and conducted training needs assessment of 240 clinicians statewide
    • developed OCD toolkit for providers, consumers and families
    • now creating online training curriculum in diagnosis, treatment of OCD and special topic focused on OCD and Schizophrenia Spectrum disorders
  • Supported Employment - Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
    • worked with over 85 PROS and state facility clinic sites to achieve monthly employment rates that met, and often exceeded, national benchmarks (typically 45 - 50+ percent)
  • Online Training Module Development
    • received industry awards for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Shared Decision-Making modules
    • created the first in a series of online psychopharmacology training modules for prescribing clinicians - Treatment Resistant and Late Life Depression: An Update for Prescribing Clinicians, with more to follow
    • now offers over 130 modules in our learning management system
  • OnTrackNY
    • now working with 23 teams across NYS
    • participant enrollment in school and work increases from 42% at enrollment to 70% by 6 months after enrollment, remaining stable thereafter
    • hospitalization rates drop from 73% in the 3 months prior to enrollment to 10-11% per quarter following enrollment
  • Suicide Prevention - Training, Implementation, Evaluation (SP-TIE) initiative
    • completed implementation of Zero Suicide strategies in over 145 outpatient clinics throughout the State in collaboration with the PSYCKES team
  • Uniform Clinical Network Provider Training (adult)
    • worked with 11 managed care organizations and state partners to provide training to clinicians in 849 OMH and OASAS programs


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