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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.

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

10/13/2025

You don’t have to live in a big city to make a big difference. 🌾

FERN and The Guardian explore LandLogic, revealing why rural behavioral health care needs professionals who meet people where they live and work.

Farmers and rural residents often face isolation, high stress, and limited access to care—but with the right support, including providers who understand their environment, lives can be saved.

🔎 Learn more by reading the full article at: thefern.org/2025/04/teaching-mental-health-professionals-to-think-like-a-farmer/

Step into rural behavioral health. Your work matters, and your impact can be life-changing.

Food & Environment Reporting Network
The Guardian

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

10/07/2025

Happening This Month! 📣

Mark your calendar for October 28 🗓️ HealthFORCE 2025 is almost here!

This annual career fair from The Health Collaborative gives high school students the chance to explore healthcare careers 🩺— and we’re excited to have our own booth this year!

Plus, don’t miss the launch of HealthFORCE Boost — a career fair & hiring event for adult job seekers featuring job opportunities, training programs, and resources to grow your career.

Don’t miss this chance to discover, connect, and take the next step toward a future in healthcare.

🔗 Register now: workforce.healthcollab.org/students/healthforce/

The Health Collaborative

10/02/2025

We’re on a mission to build the behavioral health workforce our region needs. 💪🏽

Through community-driven, cross-sector collaboration, the Regional Behavioral Health Workforce Coalitions (RBHWCs) are:
✅ Increasing support for behavioral health professionals
✅ Building evidence to guide smart decisions
✅ Scaling best practices to strengthen workforce development

The need to close gaps in access and coverage is more urgent than ever—and together, we’re creating innovative strategies to make it happen.

Learn more and see how you can get involved ➡️buildbehavioralhealth.org/rbhwc-home

10/01/2025

Building a coalition? 🤔 We’ve got you covered.

Our Collaborating for Change Toolkit—developed by the Northeast and Southwest RBHWCs in collaboration with the Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition and funded by OhioMHAS—is packed with resources to help you get started.

Including a section on free and low-cost tools that our coalitions found most helpful for building partnerships, sharing messages, and driving action to address behavioral health workforce shortages across Ohio.

🔎 Explore the toolkit and start building the coalition that can transform your community: buildbehavioralhealth.org/rbhwc-toolkit

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

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