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61. Recruiting and Retaining Behavioral Health Workers in Rural America: A Toolkit for Action
Date: Feb 2020

Explores successful tactics and programs, and elements missing from many current efforts to recruit and retain behavioral health workers. Describes funding opportunities, pipeline programs, telehealth initiatives, innovative approaches to recruitment and retention, and legislative changes in 2019 that helped promote recruitment and retention.

...Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Graduate medical education · Health workforce pipeline · Health workforce supply and demand...

62. Preparing Behavioral Health Clinicians for Success and Retention in Rural Safety Net Practices
Date: Aug 2023

Policy brief on the impact of training focused on rural and underserved communities on the skills, successes, and retention of behavioral health clinicians in rural safety net practices. Summarizes findings related to training, experiences, and demographics of rural behavioral health safety net clinicians.

...Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center Tagged as Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce education and training...

63. Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska Legislative Report: FY 2018 & 2019
Date: 2019

Provides a data overview of behavioral health needs and workforce in Nebraska. Includes county-level information on psychiatric prescribers and non-prescribers, behavioral health locations, training sites, and more.

...behavioral health locations, training sites, and more. Date 2019 Type Document Organizations Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, University of Nebraska Medical Center Tagged as Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce...

64. Innovations in Rural Health System Development: Recruiting and Retaining Maine's Health Care Workforce
Date: Nov 2016

Illustrates examples of rural-focused medical education programs to support an adequate supply of physicians in rural Maine. Also, discusses behavioral and oral health workforce development, and promising programs utilizing other types of healthcare workers such as community paramedics and community health workers (CHWs) to increase the availability and accessibility of healthcare in rural Maine and in other rural regions of the U.S.

...Health Access Foundation, Maine Rural Health Research Center Tagged as Behavioral health workforce · Community health...

65. Behavioral Health Service Provision by Primary Care Physicians
Date: Oct 2019

Results of a 2019 survey of 313 physicians, examining physician medical specialty and practice characteristics, patient population characteristics, physician practices for screening and diagnosing patients for behavioral health disorders, and roles in managing patients with behavioral health disorders. Features statistics on various types of disorders, with breakdowns by rural and nonrural settings.

...Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center Tagged as Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health screening · Mental health...

66. Factors that Influence Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment
Date: Aug 2019

Results of a study examining factors that influence access to medication-assisted treatment and substance use disorder treatment, including rural location, stigma, shortage of providers, and insurance coverage. Uses data from an electronic survey distributed to 59 State Opioid Treatment Authorities or Single State Authorities in the spring of 2019.

...Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center Tagged as Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health insurance · Illicit drug...

67. Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Farm Families in Times of Economic Distress
Date: Feb 2022

Offers strategies to support development and integration of behavioral health services across healthcare and community-based organizations, including leveraging payment systems to support coordinated care for farm families and aligning federal grant programs to address mental health and substance use disorders. Features recommendations including integrating primary and behavioral care for initial treatment of mental health and substance abuse concerns, expanding the workforce to improve rural behavioral health services capacity, increasing telehealth services, and expanding private and public insurance coverage.

...health and substance use disorders. Features recommendations including integrating primary and behavioral care for initial treatment of mental health and substance abuse concerns, expanding the workforce...

68. Data Report: 2018 Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensure Survey
Date: Mar 2019

Provides workforce demographics and practice characteristics as well as supply and distribution information from 13,031 behavioral therapists and counselors licensed in Indiana. Features statistics on professionals in various specialties, including breakdowns by number of providers delivering telemedicine services.

...Health Workforce Research and Policy Tagged as Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand...

69. Policy Goals to Support the Healthcare Workforce in Healthy Aging Communities
Date: Aug 2020

Report describing a research project funded by the New Mexico Department of Health that examines behavioral healthcare workforce needs and the growing elderly population in rural Grant, Sierra, Socorro, Catron, and Valencia counties. Presents key points from discussions with project participants, including professionals in health promotion, hospital, community health centers, local government, and educational institutions. Offers policy goals related to regional services, economic planning, and expansion of Medicaid and Medicare reimbursable services.

...Behavioral health workforce · Community and economic development · Elderly population · Health workforce supply and demand · Medicaid...

70. Primary Care, Behavioral Health, Provider Colocation, and Rurality
Date: May 2014

Results of a study regarding the colocation of behavioral health and primary care service delivery as related to rural. Study showed that 40.2% of primary care physicians in urban areas are colocated with behavioral health providers compared with 22.8% in isolated rural areas and 26.5% in frontier areas. Challenges include payment policies separating physical and behavioral health care, workforce distribution, and supply deficiencies, particularly in rural areas.

...behavioral health providers compared with 22.8% in isolated rural areas and 26.5% in frontier areas. Challenges include payment policies separating physical and behavioral health care, workforce...