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PROJECT ECHOExtension for Community Healthcare Outcomes

You’re invited to our:

Kansas Connecting CommunitiesECHO

✓Screening for Behavioral Health and Substance Use✓Brief Interventions✓Referral to Treatment/Warm Handoff✓Implementation Strategies

Join us:Thursdays in September

5, 12, 19 and 2612:00 (Noon) till 1:00 PM

Calling all:Primary Health Care; Behavioral Health Care; Mental Health

Care; and Community Professionals -interested in how you and your community partners can assist

pregnant/postpartum women experiencing substance use disorders or a mental health disorder, such as depression or

anxiety.

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes

ECHO Partners

Making geography irrelevant 913-588-2081 | projectecho@kumc.edu

Empowering Communities

• Acquire new skills and competencies• Become part of a community of practice and

learning• Gain access to inter-professional team of

specialty providers and colleagues to offer support in how to manage patients with complex conditions

• Increase their professional satisfaction

Tele-ECHO Clinic

• Helps provide better access for patients in rural and underserved communities

• Reduces treatment disparities• Provides rapid dissemination of new

knowledge• Promotes consistency in care and practice• Spreads knowledge, expands capacity and

accelerates collective wisdom

Moving Knowledge, Not Patients

ECHO uses video-conferencing technology to offer mentoring. Connect from your computer, with a webcam and microphone, a tablet or smart phone to gain access to case-based learning and interdisciplinary teams.

Tele-ECHO Model • Collaborative education

• Democratize and de-monopolize knowledge linking inter-disciplinary specialty team with multiple primary care clinicians

• Experts mentor and share their expertise across a virtual network

Kansas Connecting Communities ECHO

Kansas Connecting Communities is a grant funded initiative with a goal of increasing universal screening of pregnant and postpartum women for mood/anxiety and substance use disorders. We are hosting this regional

event as a means of providing education as well as opportunities for collaboration and partnership

CME/CNE/CE: For information regarding continuing education credit, please access the links for each of the specific sessions that will be found in the session’s agenda.