Webinar Pilot Program for Mental Health Providers – Department of Veterans’ Affairs

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) identified webinars as a mechanism to further increase the knowledge and skills of mental health providers treating veterans and ex-service personnel. The webinars reflect the specific mental health needs of veterans and their dependants while also promoting greater engagement of practitioners in the use of mental health evidence-based treatments. To facilitate this, DVA engaged HMA to:

‘implement a pilot series of webinars/podcasts targeted at mental health clinicians providing services to veterans.’

The project delivered and evaluated six webinars, covering a variety of topics delivered by experts in the field. The project was conducted in six stages from April 2016 to December 2017:

• Stage 1 – Project set-up
• Stage 2 – Initial advisory group meeting
• Stage 3 – Webinar development, production, promotion and delivery, webinar 1
• Stage 4 – Repeat implementation cycle Webinars 2 to 6
• Stage 5 – Post-delivery review and evaluation
• Stage 6 – Project final report