CPI News Brief_____ Volume 11 Issue 2 February 2022
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Together, We're Accomplishing So Much!
CPI works with over a thousand programs and over twenty-nine 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 2021:

  • ACT Institute
  • Began a pilot study of the newly developed New York State ACT Fidelity (NYSAF) scale.
  • Began a pilot study to integrate Individual Placement Support (IPS) supported employment into ACT.
  • In collaboration with CTAC, designed a new training for the new YOUTH ACT program.
  • Young Adult ACT Training was developed by NYC field office and the ACT Institute/CPI, and will be available on the CPI/ACT Learning Management System (LMS).

  • Cognitive Health
  • Updated cognitive health training materials so clinicians incorporate assessment and treatment of cognition into their practice.
  • Created the CPI Knowledge Builder called “Cognitive Health Basics”, which explains how cognitive problems manifest in people with psychiatric illnesses, and what can be done to treat them
  • Created a CPI Cognitive Health training module to help clinicians feel more expert in assessing clients’ cognitive health needs, and to facilitate the referral process for Cognitive Remediation to Promote Recovery (CR2PR), the clinical treatment arm of the OMH cognitive health initiative.

  • Data Team
  • Supported CPI and its initiatives in collection, management, and tracking of data to support implementation of evidence-based practices.
  • Created interactive data visualizations and reports for key stakeholders.
  • Conducted data analyses to support CPI and its initiatives.

  • Focus on Integrated Treatment (FIT)
  • Provided ongoing technical assistance to support regional implementation efforts through the Mid-Hudson Co-occurring Systems of Care reaching over 900 behavioral health programs.
  • Led learning collaboratives to help programs implement Wellness Self-Management Plus (18 PROS programs) and to implement treatment for tobacco use (5 state-operated psychiatric centers with multiple programs).
  • Through a grant from DOHMH and in collaboration with Dr. Jill Williams (Rutgers University), established the NYC Tobacco Cessation Training and Technical Assistance Center to work intensively with behavioral health agencies in NYC to implement treatment for co-occurring tobacco use. This includes providing training (to date, NYC TCTTAC has trained 514 providers from 134 programs representing 57 agencies) and intensive technical assistance tailored to agencies and programs.

  • Improving Providers Assessment and Care Delivery and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (IMPACT-OCD)
  • Created an OCD toolkit, with resources for providers and individuals and their families.
  • Developed four e-Learning modules for clinicians in how to diagnose OCD, what are the evidence-based treatments and how to differentiate and treat OCD and Schizophrenia.
  • Created a support service for clinicians in state-operated, licensed Article 31 clinics and PROS programs to receive consultation on the diagnosis and evidence-based treatments for OCD.
  • Hosted various informational and educational presentations on OCD and IMPACT-OCD resources for NYS-OMH system and general public audiences. 

  • Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Supported Employment
  • Worked with over 80 PROS and state facility clinic sites to achieve monthly employment rates that met, and often exceeded, national benchmarks.
  • Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, most implementation sites continued to provide IPS services (often remotely), and reported employment outcomes consistent with pre-COVID levels. From January – November 2021, the mean monthly employment rate was 48.3% of those receiving IPS.

  • New York Project Hope
  • Worked with OMH, subject matter experts and vendors including course developers, instructional designers and videographers to develop resources for the general public concerning the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and enhanced training for crisis counselors.

  • Online Assistance Unit
  • Provided technical support to over 29,000 active users of CPI’s learning management system.

  • Online Training Module Development
  • Developed new modules including Telehealth with Suicidal Individuals, Management of Eating Disorders: An Update for Prescribing Clinicians, The Journey to Use Medication Optimally to Support Recovery, Suicide is Everyone’s Business, Pharmacological Management of Bipolar Depression, Cognitive Health Solutions, Suicide Screening and Risk Assessment with Youth, Improving Provider’s Assessment, Care, Delivery and Treatment of OCD, and Understanding and Navigating the Criminal Justice System: An Overview for Behavioral Health Professionals. 

  •  OnTrackNY
  • Provided training, technical assistance, and implementation support for 22 sites across NYS, including fidelity assessment and formal Coordinated Specialty Care designation for sites.
  • Created a Family Welcome packet and other resources for stakeholders, as well as new videos. OnTrackNY has enhanced youth leadership opportunities through the Youth and Young Adult Leadership Council and new Ambassador program for OnTrackNY graduates. 
  • Strengthened our data infrastructure through the collection of participant self-report assessments and a symptom-level assessment, the compass-10, and has begun contributing data to a national repository for FEP.
 
  • Physical Health/Health Promotion
  • Curated and made available resources for providers and consumers related to commonly seenseen physical health conditions in the behavioral health population.
 
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Created online psychopharmacology trainings designed for experienced psychiatrists and nurse practitioners focusing on the dissemination of knowledge regarding categories of medications and specific content areas. Topics covered in 2021 were eating disorders, bipolar depression, and management of suicidal individuals.
 
  • Special Projects
  • Began working with Columbia Psychiatry, the New York Public Library, and Black Health to create videos designed for the communities of northern Manhattan, the Bronx and beyond, focusing on mental health wellness, stigma, and community resources.
 
  •  Suicide Prevention - Training, Implementation, Evaluation (SP-TIE) initiative
  • Received a large-scale NIMH Zero Suicide implementation grant and an AFSP grant to evaluate whether peer specialists can be trained to competence in conducting the safety planning.
  • Provided clinical training activities and evaluation as specified by federal grants and expanded training to focus on telehealth and cultural competency as related to suicide prevention.
  • Created and piloted new interventions (Suicide Prevention Group Treatment-Inpatient (SPGT-I) Intervention and Suicide Prevention Peer Support Program).

  • System transformation
  • Continued to support initiatives to develop and establish a learning health care system for the provider community operating in the Medicaid Managed Care environment in New York State including CORE, Adult BH HCBS and Uniform Clinical Network Providers

  • Wellness Self-Management
  • Worked with 18 PROS programs in a year-long learning collaborative focusing on implementation of WSM+.
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