Michael F. Hogan, PhD, former Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health, said:"Making health care better and more efficient requires specific actions, like helping providers to improve their practices. Using research-proven treatments is one approach, but traditional training is expensive in terms of travel time and taking people away from their duties. FIT offers an alternative: an Internet based approach that provides access to national experts and can be used at any time. For this to work, training content must be high quality. This award—along with participation by over 1,000 people in this learning program—proves that FIT is meeting our high expectations.

The following organizations collaborated to develop FIT:

• Allen Communication Learning Services (www.allencomm.com)
• The Center for Practice Innovations (www.practiceinnovations.org)
• New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) (http://www.omh.ny.gov/)
• New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (http://www.oasas.ny.gov/)
• The Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
• Caring Productions (http://www.caringproductions.com/)