Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
INSEF- thru INSEHZ

Objectives:

• Establish collaborative models of service delivery, as we believe that collaborative models tend to be more cost effective and provide more opportunities for coordination and integration of services and resources that already exist
• Integrate gender-specific and trauma-informed models of prevention, intervention, and treatment services addressing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuse, mental illness, child welfare, health care, hiv/aids and other social services
• Foster family-centered approaches and services
• Advance multicultural competency within the service delivery system

The Institute's first efforts began in 1987. Since that time over 9,000 workshops have been conducted for more than 120,000 clinicians. Grants have been made to investigators to develop new knowledge about clinician-patient communication. Outcome studies have been conducted to map the impact of the Institute's programs.

The Institute stresses the concept that effective communication between clinician and patient is a necessity, not an option. It works with health care organizations to conduct research and provide educational opportunities to make it possible for clinicians to develop the communication skills they need to be effective.

IHC does not offer workshops directly, but rather presents them through other sponsoring healthcare organizations.

Activities include:

• Educational workshops
• Access to industry thought leaders
• Peer reviewed research
• High level conferences
• Webinars
• Focus groups
• Topic specific committees