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.

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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