July 28, 2004

ContinuedLearning & OPEN MINDS Partnership Offers New Workforce Development Options For Behavioral Health & Social Service Organizations

ContinuedLearning, LLC and OPEN MINDS today announced a new partnership to offer state-of-the-art workforce development options for behavioral health and social service organizations. Behavioral health and social service organizations can now choose from the combined services of ContinuedLearning’s on-line education programming and OPEN MINDS management education content and classroom training expertise in order to create customized workforce development programs.

Sheree Graves, CEO of ContinuedLearning, says, “both companies employ a ‘best practice’ model of delivery to products and services. OPEN MINDS has a reputation for quality training and consultation services. ContinuedLearning has a reputation for excellent learning management technology, on-line courseware and outstanding customer service. Together, we will become the industry’s name brand in training technology and training infrastructure development.”

“This integrated approach to workforce development is the future for most behavioral health and social service organizations,” said Monica E. Oss, president of OPEN MINDS. “Our partnership with ContinuedLearning allows customers to have the best, and the most cost effective elements of on-line and classroom training – with the content and the delivery system tailored to their needs. Together, we can offer our client organizations significant improvements in the effectiveness of their staff development efforts, at a significantly lower cost.”

ContinuedLearning, LLC, founded in 1996, is one of the first Internet publishers in the behavioral health care industry. Completely web-based, this continuing education product for behavioral health care professionals has the largest online CEU catalog in the behavioral health care industry with a customer base of more than 35,000 behavioral health care providers.

OPEN MINDS, founded in 1987, is the nation’s leading behavioral health and social service market research and management consulting firm. Based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the associates of OPEN MINDS provide information, professional education, market research, and management consulting services to payers, regulators, professionals, service provider agencies, and advocacy associations in the field.

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