Spotlight
Florida ExpertNet Is the Smart Idea for Expertise
Florida ExpertNet is a free statewide portal of research expertise profiles across Florida's universities. CIMES launched ExpertNet 25 years ago and continues to enhance the site to bring added value to Florida universities, businesses, and communities.
ExpertNet helps universities connect the public, business, and industry with their faculty expertise; facilitates cooperation and sharing among researchers; and maximizes use of existing resources.
CIMES Sponsors 2025 Expert Finder Systems Forum
CIMES is the founding organizer and sponsor of the International Forum on Expert Finder Systems. The EFS Forum brings together builders and users of expert finder and research infromation systems to talk about research and trends in the field and prospects for building a community of practice for these professionals.
Florida Department of Health Employee Training
Training Guides Patrol Officers in Trauma-Informed Approach
This short, high-impact module uses video interviews and a practice scenario to deliver its core message about the effects of trauma and encourage law enforcement officers to adopt trauma-informed approaches when working with sexual assault survivors.
Video Features CIMES System That Helps Universities Serve English Language Learners
Many universities provide an immersive English language program for international students. CIMES developed a centralized business management system that addresses all of these programs' complex application, registration, evaluation, grading, billing, and related processes—leading to an improved user experience for applicants, students, faculty, and staff. Click Learn More to watch a video about this system and how it can serve your institution.
Course to Increase Awareness of Sex Trafficking
CIMES worked with Shared Hope International to produce three web-based trainings on sex trafficking. The entry-level course introduces the crime of domestic minor sex trafficking, how traffickers exploit victims, and services victims need to recover. The second course provides guidance for healthcare and social service providers on meeting survivors' needs. The third introduces law enforcement and criminal justice personnel to victim-offender intersectionality.
CIMES Awarded $4.8 Million from California Tobacco Control
The California Department of Public Health has awarded CIMES a five-year grant to continue a 23-year partnership fighting tobacco use. In 2001, CIMES developed a system for CDPH that supports the lifecycle of grants management to fund tobacco control programs across California. The system also supports analysis of program effectiveness at the local level. California has the longest, most successful tobacco prevention program in the U.S. CIMES is excited to continue providing outstanding services to support this client’s evolving needs.
Integrated, User-friendly Apps Support Business Processes
Many organizations rely on more than a dozen different information systems to support their business and program processes. This can make it challenging for employees and other users to quickly find the right piece of needed information to complete vital task. CIMES develops mobile apps that push high-priority, timely information for all program and business operations to users via phone, tablet, and desktop.
Connecting Moms to Care
Florida BH IMPACT and the Florida State University College of Medicine worked with CIMES to update and relaunch the FL Moms Mental Health Resource Directory, now called Connecting Moms to Care. The revised directory brings a fresh, easy-to-use design, an updated search tool, and the option for providers to log in and maintain their own data. Its purpose is to improve perinatal mental healthcare and outcomes in Florida.
