For some time now, the Network of Care and the California Institute for Mental Health (CiMH) have
longed to establish an integrated, statewide learning community. More than that, we sought an eLearningbased
training environment with a vastly superior deployment capacity, accurate tracking, ease of use,
and financial savings. Perhaps most importantly, we wanted to capture brand-new technology that
enables, for the first time, far greater integration, control, and expanded course-catalog capacity.
The result is a partnership between CiMH and the Network of Care enabling a remarkable system that
offers the following:
- Allows CiMH to replicate its own LMS quickly and easily to any county in the state.
- Allows each county to do the same kind of sub-LMS creation for its own departments or contract
agencies.
- Has complete "roll-up tracking and reporting" for all.
- Offers social-networking integration for every workshop.
- Provides a nationwide trainers’ database from which to choose.
- Includes CiMH course catalogs and events.
- Can accommodate unlimited course catalogs.
This last feature is somewhat groundbreaking in that the system is not confined to a single course
catalog, but rather can accommodate any number of catalogs. This multiple-catalog feature dramatically
increases the breadth of high-quality course offerings that any department director offers her employees.
By doing so, it also provides a fair and balanced environment in California among catalog content
providers. With this new CiMH LMS, any and all quality catalogs can be accessed within the same LMS
by the end user, giving much greater choice for departments and their employees.
Best of all, it is probably considerably less costly than the more limited alternatives that are out there,
making it easy to tie all learning opportunities in the state into a single system and a single view.
To contract directly with CiMH and join CiMH’s learning community, please contact Sabine Whipple at
swhipple@networkofcare.org or (916) 556-3480 ext. 138.