Learning Collaborative Model

A Learning Collaborative Is A Model That:

• Focuses on adopting best practices in diverse service settings
• Emphasizes adult learning principles and interactive training methods
• Encourages the participation of both clinicians and supervisors to enhance the opportunity for successful implementation
• Requires focused work to adopt the treatment over the course of the training

This Is An Ongoing Process That:

• Brings together mental health clinicians from diverse settings to learn, implement, and sustain evidence-based interventions
• Enables participants to share and learn from their collective experiences and challenges
• Requires ongoing follow-up consultation activities (through phone and internet)
• Provides opportunities to practice new skills and share progress through the TCTY

A Learning Collaborative Is NOT:

• A single or one-time training event
• A single-setting, single-site, or individual clinician-focused
• A model for implementing small changes within existing systems

Why Use This Approach?

• Many agencies struggle with adopting new, data-driven practices. They’re trying to overcome these challenges largely on their own, without sufficient resources.
• If we create a forum for the exchange of experiences and ongoing feedback, the learners will become each other’s teachers.
• We believe that the resulting improvements associated with the learning collaborative approach have the potential to propel the whole child trauma field forward.