Project ICE Available Trainings
Project ICE- Integrated Care through Education is offering FREE training for care professionals from mental health, intellectual disabilities, diabetes management and managed care providers on effective strategies to promote positive health outcomes for those suffering from a mental illness and/or intellectual disability and diabetes living in a rural community. Behavioral Health CEU's are available for a minimal fee.
Currently, all Project ICE trainings are available through our E-Learning:
1.) Understanding Diabetes, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Serious Mental Illness
Description: This training provides fundamental information to increase working knowledge of these three disorder areas, their relationship to each other, diabetes risk, and basic care.
2.) Improving Medication Adherence in Individuals Facing an Intellectual Disability and/or Serious Mental Illness
Description: This training is designed to provide a basic understanding of medication adherence, the prevalence of non-adherence, and causes, predictors, and consequences of non-adherence. It also discusses best practices and evidence-based practices for increasing adherence.
3.) Increasing Physical Activity to Reduce Diabetes Risks in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and/or Serious Mental Illness
Description: This training discusses the lack of physical activity in the general populations as compared to these populations and the consequences to health and well-being. It also discussed the benefits of exercise in general and specific benefits to Type 2 diabetes management. It provides minimum targets needed for reaping benefits from exercise and suggestions for encouraging more of it in these individuals.
4.) Nutrition for Diabetes Management and Prevention in People with an Intellectual Disability and/or Serious Mental Illness
Description: This training discusses the prevalence of poor eating habits in the general population and these populations, consequences to health, and contributions to diabetes complications specifically. It also discusses the benefits of healthy eating in general and specific benefits to people with diabetes. This training offers simple methods for determining portion/calorie control and ways to encourage individuals to adhere to a healthier diet.
You can register for any of these trainings by clicking on the link to the e-learning system on the Project ICE home page above. These trainings are also FREE. CEU's can be pruchased for any of these trainings for a $20.00 processing fee. The first trainings is worth 4 CEU's. Trainings 2-4 are worth 2 CEU's each
If you should have any questions call, (317) 536-4683
*Project ICE is funded through a three year Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration