Provider Learning Collaboratives
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SAE’s “Provider Learning Collaboratives” are an opportunity for our consulting experts to convene around new industry information and best practices, which we then share free of charge to you. Key experts join Dr. Julianne Manchester, SAE’s Director of Performance Improvement and Sustainability, to focus in on technical assistance and information dissemination specific to topics trending in the behavioral health and integrated health industry.
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MEET THE TEAM
Dr. Manchester is a professionally trained evaluator and process improvement expert with a PhD from the Ohio State University in Quantitative Research, Evaluation and Measurement in Education (earned 2007). Her master’s degrees are in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Educational Policy and Leadership. She is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She is the lead author of peer-reviewed publications in Military Medicine, Evaluation and Program Planning, and Performance Improvement. She has held leadership roles as a Principal Investigator, Program Manager, and Evaluation Scientist on federal (DHHS-HRSA; DoD-DHA; OMH) and state (Ohio) agreements (ODH; ODE; OMHAS; OCMH).
She has trained educators, health professionals, medical faculty, and the prevention workforce on building their processes and capacity to improve effectiveness demonstrations in health and behavioral health settings. She has held leadership roles as a Principal Investigator, Program Manager, and Evaluation Scientist on federal (DHHS-HRSA; DoD-DHA; OMH) and state (Ohio) agreements (ODH; ODE; OMHAS; OCMH).
As a facilitator of evaluation knowledge for clients, colleagues, and stakeholders, she strengthens prevention policy, provides capacity support to workforce development programs (e.g., employee assistance, substance abuse, risk reduction, suicide prevention, retail food protection) through logic modeling and strategy development, creates needs assessments and analyzes gaps and redundancies in support of the prevention workforce, and facilitates discussions on suicide prevention planning resources with stakeholders.
She has real world, applied experience spanning over 21 years in program management, evaluation, and research in public health (environmental health, retail food protection, health disparities, suicide prevention, alcohol and drug prevention, coalition building), health (traumatic brain injury, psychological health, delirium, dementia, diabetes, depression, palliative care), K-12 (school safety), and criminal justice sectors. She is an active member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) (2006 to present), the Maryland Writers’ Association, and The Virginia Writers Club.
Dr. Manchester is SAE’s Director of Performance Improvement and Sustainability, and will be facilitating the Provider Learning Collaboratives moving forward. | For access to more information about Dr. Manchester, click here.
Cara Renzelli, PhD, MBA has dedicated her career to creating linkages between clinical practice and the application of data to advance organizations and enhance the lives of those they serve. After spending nearly a decade in various roles at an NIAAA-funded research center, she joined one of the region’s largest substance use treatment providers at that time, where she developed a department of research and program evaluation.
Over the next 15 years, Dr. Renzelli received funding from local, state and federal grants to support evidence-based practice implementation and other change management initiatives involving overdose prevention, family programming, patient satisfaction, and staff training and development. As part of the organization’s executive leadership team, she collaborated on quality improvement and systemwide growth and sustainability efforts.
Most recently, Dr. Renzelli’s work within a managed care organization focused on physical and behavioral health integration to improve clinical outcomes, create efficiencies through innovative care models, and reduce health disparities. She has served as a federal grant reviewer and lead evaluator on SAMHSA-funded studies.
She earned her MSW and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and later returned to complete her MBA with concentrations in operations, strategy, and marketing as a way to fuse both her passion and expertise to help resolve some of the most complex and challenging issues facing vulnerable priority populations.
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