Workforce Solutions Jam | Extending the Behavioral Health Workforce: Training the Allied Workforce

Join us in February for Training the Allied Workforce. As behavioral health systems grapple with persistent workforce shortages and growing demand, many organizations are rethinking who delivers care and how. In the second installment of this four‑part series, we’ll explore innovative ways to equip frontline workers and other unlicensed staff with foundational behavioral health skills and extend care capacity, particularly in communities with unmet needs and rural communities.

Training the Allied Workforce will highlight how organizations use internal training programs, youth‑ and peer‑informed approaches and community‑centered service models to strengthen care teams, support integrated care and improve access to critical behavioral health services.

This Jam session will:

• Explore emerging workforce models that prepare frontline workers and other unlicensed staff to deliver evidence-informed behavioral health support in clinical and community-based settings.
• Identify strategies for developing internal training programs that expand care capacity while maintaining quality, supervision and appropriate scope of practice.
• Assess how community-centered approaches can improve access to care and continuity of services, particularly for communities with unmet needs or hard-to-reach populations.

The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration. It is hosted as a partnership between the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Health Management Associates and The College for Behavioral Health Leadership.