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Southwest Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition

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Southwest Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition

A community-driven cross-sector collaboration to address short-term and long-term behavioral health workforce development barriers.

Behavioral healthcare is healthcare.

12/23/2025

The 2025 State of Mental Health in America report from Mental Health America shows just how urgent mental health access is nationwide. 🧠

Key takeaways:
➡️ 23.4% of U.S. adults experienced a mental illness in the past year—over 60 million people.
➡️ Nearly 3 million youth (ages 12–17) reported frequent thoughts of su***de.
➡️ 77% of adults with a substance use disorder did not receive treatment.

Mental health affects every community—and expanding access to care is more critical than ever.

🔗 Read the full 2025 report: mhanational.org/the-state-of-mental

12/19/2025

Turn your passion for fairness, dignity, and advocacy into a meaningful career. ✅

As a Client Rights Officer, you’ll safeguard the rights of individuals receiving mental health and addiction services—ensuring ethical treatment, investigating concerns, and championing client empowerment when it matters most.

Whether you excel at mediation, communication, or simply standing up for what’s right, this career path lets you make a real difference in people’s lives. 🙌🏾

Start exploring your path today using the interactive BHEACON Tool ➡️ buildbehavioralhealth.org/explore-bheacon

Ohio Department of Behavioral Health
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition - MHAC
Northeast Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition

12/17/2025

Guiding Principles keep our work focused, aligned, and impactful.

One of the SW RBHWC’s core principles centers on this: Stay rooted in local needs while engaging at the state level to drive policy and systems change. ✅

When community voices, statewide collaboration, and system-wide solutions come together, we move closer to ensuring everyone in our region can access high-quality, culturally competent behavioral health care.

This is just one of the principles guiding our mission to build a workforce that truly reflects, and can fully support, the communities we serve. 🏘️✨

12/12/2025

While many job seekers take a break during the holidays, there are still plenty of opportunities to land a job before the new year. 📣

Fewer applicants mean less competition, networking events open doors to new connections, and temporary holiday positions can sometimes turn into permanent roles.

Starting your search now can also give you a head start before January hiring spikes, help secure benefits early, and even offer extra holiday pay. ✅

Stay motivated, use your downtime wisely, and keep the momentum going—you never know which opportunity could be the perfect fit!

➡️ Read the full Indeed article to learn more and get expert tips for an effective holiday job search: .indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/job-search-duri

Indeed

12/10/2025

Turn Your Roadmap into Real Impact! 🗺️
In coalition building, your Roadmap comes to life through action—and you don’t have to start from scratch!

In our coalition, dedicated committees took the lead, each focusing on a key pillar of our shared framework and roadmap. They assessed workforce needs, set measurable goals, and created strategies that truly strengthen behavioral health in our communities. ✅

You can learn from what we did and use those lessons to shape your own coalition! Check out the Collaborating for Change toolkit for practical guidance and sample timelines to turn your planning into real-world impact.

🔗 buildbehavioralhealth.org/rbhwc-toolkit

Ohio Department of Behavioral Health
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition - MHAC
Northeast Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition

12/05/2025

In behavioral health, collaboration is at the heart of everything. ❤️

By joining this field, you’ll learn from diverse professionals, gain hands-on experience, and become part of a supportive community that shares your values.

It’s more than a job—it’s a space built on empathy, growth, and purpose, where helping others also helps you grow. 🌱

Start exploring career paths that align with your passion today ➡️ buildbehavioralhealth.org/explore-bheacon

12/02/2025

Start your career in behavioral health right out of high school as a Behavioral Assistant—a meaningful role supporting children as they develop emotional skills and navigate their feelings. 🎉

In this role, you’ll partner with behavior specialists and therapists to implement behavior plans, guide children in learning healthy coping strategies, and monitor their growth over time. 🌱

If you enjoy working directly with children and want to play a hands-on role in supporting their emotional and behavioral development, this is a great place to begin.

🔎 Explore the Behavioral Assistant role and other rewarding behavioral health careers using the interactive BHEACON tool at buildbehavioralhealth.org/explore-bheacon.

Ohio Department of Behavioral Health
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition - MHAC
Northeast Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition

11/27/2025

This Thanksgiving, we’re giving thanks for those who give so much. 💛

Behavioral health professionals play a vital role in keeping our communities healthy and supported — especially during the holiday season, when emotions can run high and challenges often resurface.

Their compassion, expertise, and dedication remind us how essential it is to build and sustain a robust behavioral health workforce—one that’s equipped to meet the unique and growing needs of our communities all year long. 🏘️

This season, let’s show gratitude by continuing to support, invest in, and uplift those who care for us when we need it most.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂

11/26/2025

Building a coalition can feel like a big task — but it doesn’t have to be.

Our sample timeline offers a clear roadmap to help you move from planning to recruitment, ex*****on, and beyond. ✨

Pulled from Collaborating for Change: A Toolkit to Build Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalitions, this resource draws on real-world lessons from both the Southwest and Northeast RBHWCs — showing the steps that helped us grow and how others can follow suit. 🙌🏾

Together, we can make it easier to strengthen the behavioral health workforce our communities need.

Explore the full toolkit and start building your coalition today!

🔗 buildbehavioralhealth.org/rbhwc-toolkit

Ohio Department of Behavioral Health
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition - MHAC
Northeast Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition

11/24/2025

Ohio is facing a growing mental health crisis — not just in need, but in the workforce. 🚨

While more Ohioans are reaching out for help thanks to efforts like the Beat the Stigma campaign, more than 2.4 million residents still lack adequate access to care.

The state’s Department of Behavioral Health is tackling the challenge head-on with new initiatives, from scholarships and sign-on bonuses to expanded training and workforce support — but demand continues to outpace supply.

Learn more and read the full article from The Statehouse News Bureau ➡️ statenews.org/government-politics/2025-08-28/mental-health-treatment-in-high-demand-in-ohio-and-not-enough-professionals-to-meet-it

Because awareness matters now more than ever.

11/20/2025

Turn your passion for helping others into a powerful career. 💙

With Chemical Dependency training, you can step into impactful roles like Substance Use Disorder Counselor Aide, Case Manager, or Harm Reduction Specialist. Each of which are vital to Ohio’s efforts to support recovery and save lives.

Through college programs, in-person or online training, or self-paced modules, you can gain the skills needed to guide individuals toward healing and long-term recovery. ✅

Start exploring your path today using the interactive BHEACON Tool ➡️ buildbehavioralhealth.org/explore-bheacon

Ohio Department of Behavioral Health
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition - MHAC
Northeast Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition

11/18/2025

Strong missions need clear direction, and our guiding principles keep us on course. 🧭

One of our guiding principles at the Southwest Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition is to stay driven by data and grounded in purpose — ensuring every decision advances our mission with clarity and evidence.

By being metrics-driven and using evidence to inform public funding strategies, we ensure our efforts truly move the needle and help build the behavioral health workforce our region needs to thrive. 🙌🏾
Because when strategy meets data, real change becomes measurable. 📊

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