FSU - CIMES

Center for Information Management
and Educational Services

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Center for Information Management and Educational Services

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Statewide. Nationwide. Award Winning.

Our talented team integrates research and expertise to create powerful solutions for each client.

What We Do

Information and Knowledge Management

Develop strategies to address your information management challenges

Web and Mobile
Applications

Design customized systems and mobile apps with optimal flexibility, from concept to implementation and support

Learning
Experience
Design

Produce effective instructional media using the design-thinking approach

Creative & Interactive Media Production

Create interactive media solutions that communicate your message effectively

Spotlight

CIMES Helps Organizations Deliver Meaningful, Memorable Training

Great training boosts job satisfaction and helps organizations be more effective. But many organizations struggle to provide training that has a real impact on employees and stakeholders.

That's where CIMES comes in. We develop engaging training that meets your objectives, while keeping the focus on the learner. That adds up to the best outcomes for your organization.

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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.

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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.

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Florida Department of Health Employee Training

The Florida Department of Health contracted with CIMES to develop 11 online courses for its employees. The project began with analysis of the scope of the content and needs of targeted learners, followed by development of a design document to establish the look and feel of the series. CIMES worked with Department staff to create storyboards and online modules that feature live actor narration, computer narration, images, instruction, learner interactions, learning checks, and more.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Projects

ESF-8 Awareness Training

Florida Department of Health - Bureau of Preparedness

The Bureau of Preparedness at the Florida Department of Health is in charge of health-related emergency response across the state. The bureau needed to provide training on the basics of emergency management and response to personnel with a wide variety of knowledge and skills who would be called upon to perform tasks in an emergency that are outside the scope of their usual job functions.CIMES developed web-based training on the basics of emergency management and response. The training covers all four phases of the Disaster Management Cycle—Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation.

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Nebraska Tobacco Resource and Information Network

Nebraska Health and Human Services - Tobacco Free Nebraska

The Division of Health Promotion and Tobacco is responsible for preventative and community health programs and services, such as Tobacco Free Nebraska. CIMES developed a multi-level information/program/business management system called the Tobacco Resource and Information Network to support the effectiveness of programs and services implemented by local grantees as part of Tobacco Free Nebraska. CIMES also created the Tobacco Free Nebraska Virtual Clearinghouse, where local grantees upload materials they have developed to share with other grantees, communities, and families across the state.

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Open Doors Outreach Network Evaluation

Voices for Florida

The Voices for Florida Open Doors Outreach Network seeks to improve care, coordination, and outcomes for commercially sexually exploited and trafficked children. The network uses an innovative approach that engages teams of survivor-mentors, regional staff, and clinicians to provide 24/7 care to recovering victims. CIMES developed and performed a developmental evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the service model at the current pilot sites. The study also identified which aspects of the model need to be maintained and sustained as it is being implemented at new sites and which aspects of the model can be modified to fit the local needs of partner organizations.

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Radon Certification Training

Florida Department of Health - Bureau of Environmental Health

The Bureau of Environmental Health Radon Program within the Florida Department of Health needed updated course materials for the Florida Radon Certification Program. CIMES provided 150 illustrations and diagrams, a reformatted program course manual, and 9 training modules converted into HTML5.

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Connecting Moms with Care

Florida State University - College of Medicine

Florida BH IMPACT and the Florida State University College of Medicine worked with CIMES to create the FL Moms Mental Health Resource Directory. This new site brings a fresh, easy-to-use design, a powerful search tool, and the option for providers to manage their own data. A new map feature displays provider locations. The map view was created using CartoDB, OpenStreetMap, and Leaflet. Providers and moms may print and save their search results.

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California Online Tobacco Information System

California Department of Public Health - California Tobacco Control Program

The California Department of Public Health, California Tobacco Control Program, leads statewide and local health programs, services, and activities that promote a tobacco-free environment. CIMES developed the Online Tobacco Information System to provide management of all content and processes, delivering a truly paperless management system for its users. The system manages incoming grant applications, review, negotiation, progress reporting, and fiscal reporting for more than 20 grants encompasing over 300 individual projects at any given time. CIMES has been providing ongoing development to OTIS since 2001.

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Florida County Health Department Metrics System Training

Florida Department of Health

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Film School Portal

Florida State University - College of Motion Picture Arts

The Motion web portal was created for the FSU College of Motion Picture Arts as a program management system. The application is role-based, integrated, scalable, and supports managing people, assessments, courses, and projects. The application also provides interfaces to collect, manage, track, and report project and assessment information.

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Transforming complex needs into simple solutions

Transforming complex needs into simple solutions

Center for Information Management
and Educational Services

Center for Information Management and Educational Services

Statewide. Nationwide. Award Winning.

What We Do

Spotlight

CIMES Helps Organizations Deliver Meaningful, Memorable Training

CIMES Sponsors 2025 Expert Finder Systems Forum

Florida ExpertNet Is the Smart Idea for Expertise

Florida Department of Health Employee Training

Training Guides Patrol Officers in Trauma-Informed Approach

Video Features CIMES System That Helps Universities Serve English Language Learners

Course to Increase Awareness of Sex Trafficking

CIMES Awarded $4.8 Million from California Tobacco Control

Integrated, User-friendly Apps Support Business Processes

Connecting Moms to Care

Projects

ESF-8 Awareness Training

Nebraska Tobacco Resource and Information Network

Open Doors Outreach Network Evaluation

Radon Certification Training

Connecting Moms with Care

California Online Tobacco Information System

Florida County Health Department Metrics System Training

Film School Portal