Hello, I’m Jessica Headley Ternes, current manager at Third Sector Capital Partners and a former internal evaluator for a county behavioral health department. During my time spent working in behavioral health, I spent a lot of time interviewing and listening to clients within the system-of-care share their experiences with services and personal stories of their …
Hello! Our names are Jennifer Battis and Kathleen Ferreira, evaluators and researchers at C4 Innovations. Over the past 6 months, we had the opportunity to collaborate with Washington State University (WSU) to conduct an environmental scan of the State of Washington’s collegiate recovery programs. What is collegiate recovery and why is it important? Collegiate recovery …
Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. (www.evalsolutions.com) where I provide consulting services for personalized operations support as well as program evaluation. I would like to share some lessons I’ve learned about working collaboratively with my clients to manage our shared projects more efficiently, securely, and productively in a virtual space. As an …
BH TIG Week: Collaboration on a Budget by Elizabeth Oyer Read More »
Hi! I’m Jonathan Scaccia, principal of the evaluation firm The Dawn Chorus Group and founder of PubTrawlr. What connects these two strands of work is finding better ways to efficiently and effectively extract meaning from text-based data. There is so much qualitative data out there that is laborious to analyze. Techniques from Natural Language Processing …
BH TIG Week: Evaluating the emotion behind words by Jonathan Scaccia Read More »
Hello! I am Dr. Christina Iyengar, from Rush University Medical Center. I am part of an evaluation team that supports a new initiative aimed to reduce health disparity on Chicago’s West Side. The program, Building Early Connections (BEC), seeks to improve systems of care within Rush University Medical Center for the most common social-emotional, behavioral …
Greetings, I’m Curt Mearns, a long-time evaluator who started my own community-based program evaluation organization a few years ago in a historically impoverished community. This week’s topic of evidence-based programs and practices (EBPs) led me to consider the challenges I have seen over the years related to branding and implementation of EBPs. Lesson Learned: …
BH TIG Week: Branding of evidence-based practices: What’s in a name? by Curt Mearns Read More »
Hello! I am Amy Herschell, PhD, Senior Director of Research Strategy and Outcomes Management for Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, UPMC Insurance Services (Community Care). In Part I of this series submitted by Shari Hutchison, MS, PMP, we talked about supporting implementation of best practice through the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Series Learning Collaborative Model. …
Hello! I am Shari Hutchison, MS, PMP, Project Director at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, UPMC Insurance Services (Community Care). Many organizations struggle to maintain evidence-based and best practices after training because the skills learned during training are not reinforced, there is staff turnover, or trainees go back to old ways that are more familiar. At …
Hello, I’m Marian Bussey, LCSW, PhD., Associate Professor Emerita in the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, and a mostly-retired evaluator for a small foundation that supports school-based child sexual abuse prevention. Technically, my title is Academic Consultant, and each of the three agencies we’ve funded over the past several years does its …
Greetings. I’m David Shern, the Senior Public Health Advisor for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors and Chair of the science committee for the Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP). Last year, CTIPP tracked the inclusion of trauma informed practices in the opioid bill passed by Congress that included reference …
