Visualizing Mental Health (VMH) : Translational Health Research Center : Texas State University

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Sponsor:

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), THRC's Community Health and Economic Resilience Research (CHERR) Center of Excellence

Grant ID:

H79FG001011

PI:

Dr. Melinda Villagran

Research Pillar(s):

An icon of a road with a leaf cluster as the middle pavement marking.

A briefcase icon with a Red Cross symbol, meant to represent the STEM and Healthcare Workforce priority.

A head icon with a heart in place of a brain, meant to represent the Personal Health and Wellbeing pillar.

An icon of an medical monitor showing heart beat activity, meant to represent the Digital Healthcare Transformation pillar.

An ambulance moving at high speed with the siren on, meant to represent the Emergency Preparedness pillar.

Video describing the Visualizing Mental Health training

Visualizing Mental Health (VMH) is a cost-free certification program that equips Central Texas mental health and industry professionals with the knowledge and skills to build and utilize a customized mental health data dashboard for their organization. VMH aims to increase access to mental health data by putting reliable, community-level data in a simple but valuable tool for Central Texas industry professionals.

The program teaches participants to design user-friendly data dashboards and incorporate datasets that reflect key mental health issues, enabling organizations to do the following:

Increase the use of real-time data and service information
Make evidence-based decisions promptly
Identify service trends, gaps, and/or inequities
Generate compelling reports to be used for presentations, grant proposals, policy briefs, etc.

No prior experience with data or data analysis is necessary for this course.