Trainings

Project ECHO

Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an innovated guided practice model that utilizes technology to connect a variety of specialists with frontline clinicians to build workforce capacity to improve specialty health care in rural communities. Through ECHO trainings, providers can gain knowledge and support to better manage patients with complex conditions and improve access to specialty health care in rural communities.

The Hawaiʻi Rural Health ECHO is a replicating partner of Project ECHO that focuses on providing online and accessible training for primary providers to build capacity for improved patient care and promote best practices. Curriculums that are offered include: Behavioral Health, Geriatric Care, and Pediatric ECHO. Sessions for all curricula are offered as 1-hour tele-clinic sessions.

PMHCA has partnered with Project ECHO to provide online training on mental health related topics to pediatric providers.

Upcoming Trainings:

  • Autism Series

Previous topics covered included:

  • Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care
  • ADHD
  • Pediatric Anxiety and Depression
  • Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Infant Mental Health
  • Mental Health Needs of Sexual and Gender Minority Children and Adolescents
  • Addressing Trauma in Caregivers
  • Setting Up and Maintaining Integrated Behavioral Health in the Primary Care Office
  • Disruptive Behavioral and Parent Management

 

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Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Trainings

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) is “the optimal social, emotional, and cognitive well-being of children ages 0-3, developed by secure and stable relationships with nurturing caregivers.” – Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health

Past Training:

DC:0-5TM Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (Published by ZERO TO THREE) provides developmentally specific, relationship based and contextually grounded diagnostic criteria and information about mental health disorders in infants and young children ages 0-5. This system is a way of understanding the unique mental health needs of early childhood with consideration of their early relational health and considering the whole child to more accurately make diagnoses.

In partnership with the Association for Infant Mental Health Hawaiʻi (AIMH HI) and Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, PMHCA hosted the DC:0-5 Overview and Clinical Training. The four-hour Overview and two-day Clinical in-person trainings were offered to Allied Professionals and Clinicians, respectively, who work with or on behalf of infants and young children.

We hope to continue moving forward with work in the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health space, including increasing the utilization of the DC:0-5 as a diagnostic tool amongst our clinicians.

If you are interested in learning more about Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and other training opportunities, check of the AIMH HI.