Collaborative Screening

Make a difference with meaningful conversation.

Collaborative Screening offers evidence-informed guidance for creating safe and meaningful screening interactions.

Screening is a critical process for learning more about patients and families. Yet all too often, this opportunity for discovery feels like just checking boxes for both patients and providers.

Collaborative Screening is a way to improve the process. The Collaborative Screening framework takes your approach from simply fulfilling requirements to creating the supportive, respectful conversations essential to person-centered care.

Collaborative Screening integrates concepts and skills from well-established methods of person-centered healthcare, including:

  • Motivational interviewing

  • Trauma-informed care

  • Cultural humility

You may not be able to offer resources or services to every patient who needs help. You can still provide meaningful assistance by offering respectful, supportive dialogue.

We can help your team build communication skills to develop engaging and supportive relationships with patients.

We facilitate custom, highly interactive workshops with care teams and implementation teams to help you integrate Collaborative Screening into your unique workflows. These trainings provide concepts and skills that you can use right away to improve screening and referral.

Collaborative Screening offers process improvement tools for screening conversations and system design.

Collaborative Screening tools and topics include:

  • Principles for designing respectful, safe screening conversations and organizational systems

  • Conversation Map for trauma-informed screening interactions

  • Journey Map for designing and improving screening workflows, with tips for enhancing technology, communication, and teamwork

  • Guidance on electronic medical record functionalities to help create a user-friendly approach to screening

  • Recommendations for getting stakeholder input to develop and improve your approach to screening

  • Strategies for avoiding workforce burnout while adding screening

Participant Experiences

“I really appreciate how thoughtful and engaging this training was!”
“I enjoyed the role playing, the interactive discussion, and all the handouts, guides, and slides. Ariel did an amazing job of facilitating the training and all sessions were helpful, validating, and inspiring.”
“Great training. I do a lot of screening as part of my job and I will definitely use what I learned.”

“Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another, despite our differences. It’s recognizing that the same humanity — the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security — exists in each of us, even if it’s expressed uniquely.”

-Dr. Vivek Murthy

Read about how we’ve supported organizations with Collaborative Screening.

Projects
Online Learning for Health-Related Social Needs Screening
Online Learning for Health-Related Social Needs Screening

Kaiser Permanente care teams and staff across the country are learning to screen and respond to nonmedical social needs.  KP Learn is the enterprise-wide Learning Management System, providing employees, physicians, and contingent workers with online access to learning resources. Ariel partnered with the KP Learn instructional design team to help develop an online learning module on health-related social needs screening.

Online Learning for Person-Centered Health-Related Social Needs Screening
Online Learning for Person-Centered Health-Related Social Needs Screening

The Texas Association of Community Health Centers wanted to provide their members with a robust set of person-centered screening implementation tools through their Learning Management System. Ariel partnered with PCA staff to hear about their goals and their stakeholder priorities.  We developed a suite of implementation tools for Texas Community Health Centers to promote person-centered approach to health-related social needs screening.

Hybrid Workshop on Person-Centered Health-Related Social Needs Screening
Hybrid Workshop on Person-Centered Health-Related Social Needs Screening

In their work reducing infant mortality and promoting quality improvement for Medicare beneficiaries, the Indiana Hospital Association supports their critical access, rural hospitals, and other rural health care providers with a variety of quality improvement strategies.  Ariel has provided a series of trainings on person-centered screening to improve workforce readiness and confidence to facilitate respectful conversations about health-related social needs.

About Your Facilitator

Ariel Singer joined the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers in 2013 and has offered training and technical assistance on person-centered communication to hundreds of health professionals across the country.

As a trainer, Ariel uses principles of popular and adult education, communication design, and an emphasis on interaction and skill-building to help learners build knowledge and skills. Ariel created Collaborative Screening to offer evidence-informed guidance for facilitating person-centered screening on sensitive topics like health-related social needs. She has been sharing Collaborative Screening with teams nationwide since 2021.

Collaborative Screening Resources

Resources
Facilitating Shared Decision-Making: Patient Action Plan
Facilitating Shared Decision-Making: Patient Action Plan

The Patient Action Planning tool integrates motivational interviewing and health literacy to create a simple guide for facilitating shared decision-making with patients. 

Designing Person-Centered Screening Systems: Action Plan
Designing Person-Centered Screening Systems: Action Plan

The System Design Planning Tool helps you identify and plan next steps for creating organizational systems that support person-centered screening.

Person-Centered Screening Conversation Map
Person-Centered Screening Conversation Map

The Conversation Map offers step-by-step guidance for a reliable, evidence-informed approach to screening conversations about social needs and any other sensitive topics.

Design Principles for Person-Centered Screening
Design Principles for Person-Centered Screening

The Collaborative Screening Design Principles are a curated summary of collective wisdom on implementing health screenings in a person-centered style that draw on key insights and ideas from stakeholder input and peer-reviewed literature.