BHECN Model Webinars
Innovative Recruitment Strategies for Behavioral Health Careers
Learn about best practices involving retention efforts within the behavioral health workforce. This webinar discusses recruitment strategies that are essential to enhance behavioral health pathways for a successful career while addressing the shortage of this specialty in rural communities. Many resources will be explored to assist with recruitment of behavioral health students in rural communities through academic training programs, rural partnerships to collaborate on common goals, and support networks through residences, internships, and practicum placements within a community. Discussion will explore the options available for students to engage within student advisory boards, the BHECN app, and other engagement opportunities in the effort to maintain and strengthen the rural behavioral health care workforce throughout the states.
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Speaker
Christine "Tina" Chasek, PhD, LIMHP, LADC
Associate Director of Rural Development, BHECN
Chair / Associate Professor, Counseling Department UNO
Retaining Behavioral Health Professionals
Explore effective retention methods utilized to support behavioral health professionals within the workforce. We will explore a multifaceted outreach program for professionals derived by BHECN to illustrate the dimensional efforts from exemplary behavioral health professionals in the state. Opportunities to engage behavioral health trainees not only with practicing professionals and continuing education for professional development, but also engaging trainees with partners across the state to offer timely and local opportunities.
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Speaker
Tara Wilson, PhD, NCC, LMHP
Co-Director, BHECN Panhandle
Associate Professor, Chadron State College
Using Data to Support the Behavioral Health Workforce
Join us to learn how to leverage data collection to analyze and drive work forward. Hear about the trends in the behavioral health workforce including what has been seen during BHECN’s more than ten years of functioning and analyzing new data endeavors to better understand timely challenges facing the field.
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Speaker
Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD
Senior Consultant to BHECN
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health
Associate Director, Buffett Cancer Center Community Outreach & Engagement (BCC COE) Office
How State Policies Support the Behavioral Health Workforce
Learn how state legislatures can create and implement policy solutions to positively impact the behavioral health workforce. This webinar will describe how to leverage policy solutions to recruit, train, and retain the behavioral health workforce, as exemplified by the creation of BHECN in the Nebraska state legislature in 2009. Information will be shared on how legislative bills have supported student internships across Nebraska, including correctional facility settings. In addition, we will explore how annual policy forums amongst numerous policy stakeholders can make a difference in the legislative process.
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Speaker
Erin Schneider, MSW
Associate Director of External Relations, BHECN
Unique Considerations for Rural Behavioral Health Workforce Development
Learn how to overcome the unique challenges of rural practice and how to address these obstacles utilizing satellite locations based on BHECN's programming within rural Nebraska.
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Speaker
Catherine Jones-Hazledine, PhD, "Dr. Cate"
Co-Director, BHECN Panhandle
Licensed Psychologist and Owner,
Western Nebraska Behavioral Health in Rushville, Neb.