1. CAPE (Community Assessment and Education to Promote Behavioral Health Planning and Evaluation) Website Home Page:
Presented by:
Cheryl St. Clair, Associate State Extension Specialist
Department of Agricultural Economics
Presented to: Session on Educator Role with Respect to Farm Stress
Date: Monday, December 5, 2016

2. CAPE Team Members National Initiative Project Director: Mark Skidmore
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Leadership Team includes Regional Rural Development Centers:
Don Albrecht, Director, Western Rural Development Center
Stephan Goetz, Director, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Rachel Welborn, Program Manager, Southern Rural Development Center
Technical Team includes Extension representatives:
Courtney Cuthbertson, Health and Nutrition, MSU
Joan Ilardo, Research Initiatives and Geriatric Education, MSU
John Leatherman, Office of Local Government, KSU
Cathy Martinez, Arizona Extension, University of Arizona

3. CAPE Team Members
Technical Team (Continued) includes Extension representatives:
Melissa Offert, Human Nutrition, WVU, NE Regional Coordinator, CAPE
Rick Peterson, Texas AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M University System, Southern Regional Coordinator, CAPE
Robert Shupp, Ag, Food and Resource Economics, MSU
Scott Loveridge, Ag, Food and Resource Economics, MSU
Cheryl St. Clair, Ag Extension, Oklahoma State University
SAMHSA (USDHHS) Liaisons:
Brandn Green, Rob Lyerla, Sharon Larson
USDA Liaison:
Brent Elrod

4. CAPE Objectives
Dedicated to identifying and sharing best practices for benchmarking community behavioral health
Fund community projects to develop low-cost, replicable early-warning systems for behavioral health
Develop a peer-reviewed toolkit for application by local leaders

5. CAPE Toolkit Toolkit at: www.healthbench.info/toolkit.html Includes:
Community-Level Behavior Health Surveys: A Primer (21 page informational Primer)
Community Decision-Making: One Size Does Not Fit All (You Tube presentation)
Behavioral Health Program Database (Searchable list of more than 300 behavioral health programs and interventions organized by behavioral health topic/condition and other attributes)
CAPE Data Resources (List of available data resources)
Example CAPE Community Profile (Example of Finney County, Kansas, Community Behavioral Health Profile)

6. CAPE Toolkit Toolkit at: www.healthbench.info/toolkit.html Includes:
Measuring and Building Public Value of Health Intervention Programs (You Tube presentation)
Exploring Community Interest in Behavioral Health via Google Trends (You Tube presentation)
Community Profiles: Guide to Using Excel
Other Metrics and Databases (Database of Programs/Interventions)

7. Other CAPE Resources
Webinars archived for review on behavioral health topics

8. CAPE Training in Oklahoma
Pilot training was completed in early fall 2016 in East Lansing, Michigan
Modifications have been made
Training will be presented to FCS County Extension Educators in Oklahoma
Coordinating with Dr. Matt Brosi, College of Human Sciences

9. CAPE Training in Oklahoma
Session
Oklahoma
#1 Introduction and Overview: CAPE Training, Mental Health First Aid, and Community Action Planning
Video available (March 6-8) Webinar discussion: March 9
MHFA Workshop*
March
23, Location to be announced
MHFA Workshop Debrief
Webinar discussion: March 29
#2 Community Needs Assessment #3Assessing Community Preparedness #4Community Decision Making
#2 Video, #3 Video and #4 Video available April 3 through 17th. Webinar discussion – Community development and Action Plan: April 18, 2017
Community Action Plan
Presentation/discussion for each Community Action Plan: April 27, 2017
Follow-up
TBD

10. Community Group
Identify a representative community group of members, including:
mental health professionals
physicians
hospital staff and hospital ER staff
EMS staff
law enforcement, including police, sheriff, local jail, prison, etc.
local government; city, county, regional
extension personnel
civic groups; ministerial alliance;
other community members

11. Community Group Activities
Overview of CAPE program
Train all group members in MHFA
Pull together data to assess behavioral health needs
Determine and share all local and regional community behavioral health resources (develop a listing, etc.)
Determine methods of early warning and early intervention
Develop a community action plan
Community can consider other tools from CAPE website

12. Results Anticipated from Oklahoma Training
FCS Extension Educators/participants will:
Become certified in MHFA
Apply MHFA training throughout their professional and personal lives
Introduce MHFA training to their county/counties
Introduce the CAPE project to communities in their county/counties
Facilitate CAPE community projects
Consider becoming a MHFA instructor

13. Further Oklahoma Training
Continue additional sessions of CAPE training with FCS Extension Educators
Consider extending MHFA training to all Extension Staff
Consider extending CAPE training to all Extension Staff
Continue to encourage community behavioral health groups facilitated by Extension personnel
Extend MHFA training to community members