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For Immediate Release
Essential Learning Partners with
the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston
University to Provide Conference-based Courses Online
SAN DIEGO - (September 12, 2008)
Essential Learning, the largest provider of
e-learning services in the behavioral health and human
services industry, has partnered with the
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston
University to create the Innovations Institute, 14
online courses based on recovery and psychiatric
rehabilitation workshops presented at the “From
Innovations to Practice: The Promise and Challenge of
Achieving Recovery for All” conference held in April
2008.
The Innovations Institute courses
highlight efforts and practices directed at making
recovery a real possibility for the broadest group of
individuals with psychiatric disabilities. These courses
offer continuing education credits from national
accreditation bodies such as APA, ASWB, ANCC, and NBCC.
You can view a list of course titles and access the
courses online at
http://www.cequick.com/bucpr/.
“Our partnership with the Center for
Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University offers
top notch recovery-focused workshops from the
Innovations to Practice conference online to
professionals all over the country,” said Lorraine
Watson, Ph.D., Co-Founder and President of Essential
Learning. She further added, “This adds great depth to
our growing library of recovery and psychiatric
rehabilitation coursework that includes content from our
other psychiatric rehabilitation partners; the U.S.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, Mary Ellen
Copeland and the California Association of Social
Rehabilitation Agencies.” "We are thrilled to
have our conference workshops online to provide this
content to a wider audience outside those that attended
this conference. This initiative truly displays the
reach of e-learning in our industry. We look forward to
further collaboration with Essential Learning." said Dr.
Marianne Farkas, the Director of Training at the Center
for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
Essential Learning, founded in 2002
and based in San Diego, California, serves more than 450
organizations, governmental agencies and trade
associations in 46 states. Essential Learning’s
Organizational Learning Management System features
more than 450 behavioral health, addiction, child
welfare, suicide prevention courses that are accredited
for continuing education credit by national and state
licensing boards for nurses, psychologists, counselors,
social workers and other clinical professionals. New in
2008 the
Community Access Site, available by subscription, to
provide education, resources and recovery tools to the
community. For more information about Essential
Learning, visit
www.essentiallearning.com or call 1-800-729-9198 ext
284.
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