This webinar series is presented by the Fidelity Monitoring in Ontario Community of Interest in collaboration with Evidence Exchange Network (EENet). Learn more about this webinar series, "Building high quality mental health services - Why fidelity matters".
Presenters from the Centre for Practice Innovations in New York State will highlight how fidelity measurement can be an important part of a program and system quality improvement process and how this process can be supported when agencies partner with an intermediary organization. The presentation will draw on examples from their work implementing the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model and treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in New York State.
Objectives
- Explore the benefits of fidelity monitoring as a meaningful part of a continuous quality improvement process.
- Describe how one intermediary organization conducts fidelity monitoring, including resources required, assessment strategies used and how programs are supported to use the data.
- Outline the benefits of partnering with an intermediary organization in this process.
For more information about the webinar series, contact Rossana Coriandoli, EENet Knowledge Broker, or Janet Durbin, Co-Lead, Fidelity COI.
Presenters
Nancy H. Covell, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who is the Associate Director for Implementation Support Systems at the Center for Practice Innovations (CPI) within the Division of Behavioral Health Services and Policy Research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Covell has been conducting mental health services and implementation research for more than 20 years in public behavioral health settings (first in Connecticut and now in New York) with over 50 peer-reviewed publications related to this work and funding from national agencies and local government (state and city). Dr. Covell currently works for a nationally known intermediary organization, CPI, that provides blended (e-Learning and in person) training and targeted implementation supports (organizational-, provider-, and service recipient-level) to help behavioral healthcare agencies throughout New York adopt evidence-based practices. As part of that work, Dr. Covell helps train New York agencies to complete fidelity self-assessments around treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use, including tobacco. She also works closely with these agencies to use results from the self-assessments to inform quality improvement. Dr. Covell is a Founding Member of both the Global Implementation Society and the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration.
Paul J. Margolies, Ph.D., is Associate Director for Practice Innovation and Implementation at the Center for Practice Innovations at Columbia Psychiatry (CPI), located at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. At CPI Dr. Margolies oversees implementation and training efforts for a number of initiatives that bring best treatment practices for those diagnosed with serious mental illness to the field, including IPS supported employment. Part of this work includes training programs throughout NYS to conduct regular self-evaluations of fidelity to IPS and helping those programs use those self-assessments to drive a quality improvement process. Dr. Margolies is a licensed psychologist who received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Over the course of the past 40+ years, he has worked in community and inpatient settings in a variety of clinical, supervisory and administrative roles. His recent publications focus on implementation and dissemination of evidence-based practices, the Individual Placement and Support approach to supported employment, and Wellness Self-Management. He has presented papers and workshops at regional, national and international conferences on topics including evidence-based practices, transformational leadership, organizational change, cognitive-behavior therapy, and psychiatric rehabilitation.
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