Project ICE - Integrated Care through Education
Project ICE is a three-year program, funded through the Health Resources and Services Administration, designed to improve the health and well-being of persons with mental illness and or intellectual disabilities who also manage diabetes and reside in a rural Indiana county. It is directed by a consortium of service providers that includes Anthony Wayne Services, MDwise, ADVANTAGE Care Select, and ASPIN.
The goals of Project ICE are to improve health outcomes through enhanced diabetes management achieved through the cross-training of care-providers on best practices of diabetes management and strategies for working with the targeted population. The initial trainings will be a series of traditional face-to-face interdisciplinary presentations for care-providers on diabetes, mental illness and intellectual disabilities and how these delivery silos can support coordinated care for the targeted population. Care-providers include Direct Support Professionals, Mental Health Case Managers, Clinicians, Certified Diabetes Educators, Psychiatric Nurses and any other health care professional that touches those impacted by diabetes and a mental illness or intellectual disability.
I should attend a Project ICE training if:
- I work in a Group Home and want to learn more about diabetic complications.
- I am not certain what a HbA1C test indicates.
- I want to learn more about the intellectually disabled population.
- I'm not familiar with the impact of some antipsychotic medications on weight gain.
- I want more information on how a Managed Care Care Manager can assist in locating resources for my client who is in the Care Select Medicaid program.
The initial, state-wide interdisciplinary trainings have been completed and has been converted to an e-learning format. We are now in phase two of Project ICE, and the webinars series on how to promote nutrition, exercise, and medication management specific to diabetics faced with a mental illness or intellectual disability has been scheduled.
The final phase of Project ICE, scheduled to begin February, 2011, will be on-line training for medical providers and office personnel regarding communication and support for persons within the targeted population.
Conflict of Interest and Disclosure of Commercial Support
All persons involved with Project ICE including trainers, planners and content specialist have documented they do not have any conflicts of interest, either financial or by other means, regarding participation in Project ICE.
Project ICE has not received any commercial support/sponsorship to deliver trainings to participants. Project ICE is funded through a grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration.