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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.

11/10/2025

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is leading the way in addressing behavioral health challenges across the U.S. through six key priorities:

1️⃣Preventing substance use
2️⃣Addressing serious mental illness
3️⃣Expanding crisis services
4️⃣Improving access to evidence-based treatment
5️⃣Supporting long-term recovery
6️⃣ Tracking emerging threats

Guided by data-driven, science-based approaches, SAMHSA aims to solve long-standing community behavioral health issues and support lasting sobriety, recovery, and overall well-being for all Americans.

Learn more about SAMHSA’s strategic priorities here ➡️ samhsa.gov/about/strategic-priorities

11/06/2025

Did you know that as a Clinical Case Manager, you provide both clinical and case management support? 🤔

This role allows you to be a trusted guide on the road to healing and independence by assessing needs, creating treatment plans, offering therapy or psychoeducation, and connecting clients to essential mental health and recovery resources.

With a BSN or Master’s degree in a behavioral health field and the appropriate licensure, you can step into a role where your skills organize care, solve problems, and make a real difference for individuals facing mental health or addiction challenges. 🙌🏾

🔎 Explore this career and more using the BHEACON interactive tool: buildbehavioralhealth.org/explore-bheacon

11/04/2025

Guiding principles help coalitions stay focused on what truly matters while navigating complex challenges.

For the SW RBHWC, moving from a grant-driven to a community-driven approach ensures that strategies are rooted in the needs of the people and communities we serve. 🏘️✨

By prioritizing local insight and collaboration, this principle strengthens our mission to build the behavioral health workforce our region needs, address disparities in access and coverage, and implement innovative solutions that make a real difference—both now and for the future. 🌎

10/31/2025

The SW RBHWC uses a strategic pillar framework to guide its actions, investments, and long-term goals—focusing on the priorities needed to build the behavioral health workforce our region needs.

Each pillar has a dedicated committee that brings this framework to life through focused action and collaboration. ✅

The Public Policy & Advocacy Committee works to identify and address policy barriers in Ohio that impact workforce growth.

Their priorities include reimbursement rates, insurance and parity issues, education and training investments, licensure barriers, and student financial aid programs—all aimed at creating a stronger, more sustainable behavioral health workforce. 💪🏾

10/29/2025

Want to make your coalition’s work more strategic, impactful, and transparent? 🤔

The Collaborating for Change Toolkit offers practical guidance on using data effectively to guide decision-making, engage partners, support funding and policy advocacy, and measure progress.

Learn how to identify local needs, inform strategies, and showcase your coalition’s impact to stakeholders and funders. ✅

Explore all the tips and resources here: https://www.buildbehavioralhealth.org/rbhwc-toolkit

10/27/2025

Mental Health America has released its annual State of Mental Health in America report, highlighting the latest national data and state-level rankings on mental health and well-being in the U.S. 🧠

The report provides critical insights to drive policy, improve care, and support people living with mental health conditions across the country.

Policymakers and community leaders can use this data to assess state needs, evaluate the impact of policies, and allocate resources where they’re needed most.

🔗 Read the full report and explore ways to take action: mhanational.org/the-state-of-mental-health-in-america

10/23/2025

Did you know you can start a behavioral health career right out of high school? 🤯

With a High School Diploma or GED, exciting opportunities are waiting for you—like Mental Health Treatment Support Staff, Therapeutic Program Worker, Crisis Hotline Call Center Attendant, and more!

The BHEACON interactive tool helps you explore all your career options, learn about requirements, and plan your path in the behavioral health field.

🔎 Start discovering your future today: buildbehavioralhealth.org/explore-bheacon

Ohio

10/21/2025

At this year’s HealthFORCE career fair, we’ve created a dedicated Behavioral Health section where students can connect with professionals across the field. 🙌🏾

Want to hear from a peer supporter, clinical counselor, social worker, or psychiatrist? This is your chance to!

Students will have the chance to explore different career paths, ask questions, and see the variety of roles that make up behavioral health.

It’s a great way to showcase the impact and opportunities in the behavioral health workforce! ✅

10/17/2025

Behavioral health is healthcare, and everyone in our region deserves access to quality care. ✅

At the Southwest RBHWC, we’re working to help build a workforce that reflects our communities—culturally and linguistically competent, and ready to meet everyone’s behavioral health needs.
If this vision speaks to you, take the first step!

Reach out to our co-chairs, Meredith Poynter and Sharron DiMario, to learn how you can get involved and help strengthen the behavioral health workforce our region needs. 🌎

Your voice, your skills, your impact—let’s make a difference together.

🔗 Learn more at: buildbehavioralhealth.org/southwest-rbhwc

10/15/2025

Strong impact starts with smart strategy. 📊

At the Southwest Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalition (SW RBHWC), we believe that being metrics- and data-driven goes hand-in-hand with informing public funding strategies. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿

By tracking what works, measuring outcomes, and aligning those insights with available funding, we ensure resources are invested where they will create the greatest, most sustainable impact on the behavioral health workforce.

Guiding principles like this help us turn vision into action—and you can be part of it.

🔗 Learn how at: buildbehavioralhealth.org/southwest-rbhwc

10/09/2025

Did you know? 🤔 There’s a career in behavioral health dedicated to guiding people through one of life’s toughest journeys?

Substance Use Disorder Counselors:
✅ Work directly with clients to develop individualized recovery plans
✅ Facilitate group and individual therapy
✅ Provide education on relapse prevention
✅ Support long-term sobriety goals

In Ohio, the average pay is $50,580/year, and there are multiple pathways to get started.

📲 Explore this career, and others, with the BHEACON interactive career path tool: buildbehavioralhealth.org/explore-bheacon

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

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