BHECN is addressing the shortage of behavioral health care providers in Nebraska
01/22/2026
Applications for BHECN’s Lifelong Learning Fund (LLF) will be accepted Feb. 1-15. The fund provides support for three categories of professional development:
*Student development and training
*Professional development opportunities for behavioral health practitioners (provisionally or fully licensed)
🚀 Upcoming Training Opportunity: Crossroads of Care Symposium!
Are you passionate about supporting justice-involved and at-risk youth? Join us for Crossroads of Care — a full-day, accredited training designed for professionals working at the intersection of brain injury, behavioral health, and youth-serving systems!
📅 Date: February 20, 2026
💻 Format: In-person or virtual options available
👉 Learn more & register here: https://biane.org/crossroads/
This powerful symposium — hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska in partnership with the Munroe-Meyer Institute at UNMC and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln CNN Lab — will equip you with practical tools, case examples, and strategies to:
⭐ Understand how brain injury, trauma, and behavioral health overlap in justice-involved youth
⭐ Apply screening tools and case frameworks to real-world scenarios
⭐ Strengthen cross-system communication and care planning
⭐ Integrate trauma-informed, brain injury-responsive approaches into your work
Whether you’re a clinician, behavioral health provider, educator, juvenile justice professional, policymaker, or community support worker — this symposium offers actionable insights to enhance outcomes for young people navigating complex needs.
📌 Don’t miss this opportunity to grow your skills and broaden your impact! Register today: https://biane.org/crossroads/
Hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska, in partnership with the Munroe-Meyer Institute at UNMC and the Clinical Neuroscience & Neuropsychology (CNN) Lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, this full-day symposium brings together professionals who support justice-involved and at-risk...
01/08/2026
From this morning's UNMC Today: BHECN releases 2024-25 Legislative Report.
The report, which is available online, explores the power of connection in behavioral health.
The story of the Nebraska Behavioral Health Education Partnership (NEBHEP) highlights the Outreach Pillar of BHECN's Nebraska Model in action. Learn more about this innovative partnership in this story from our recent legislative report. https://www.unmc.edu/bhecn/research-data-policy/2025legreportoutreach.html
12/18/2025
✨🎁🎄Happy Holidays from the BHECN Team! 🤍 🌟 ❄️
12/17/2025
BHECN is the nation’s first state-supported behavioral health workforce center, and the only one that tracks and reports state-level behavioral health workforce data longitudinally. Read this story from our recent Legislative Report to learn how BHECN tracks and evaluates behavioral health workforce data and trends to help strengthen the state's behavioral health workforce. https://www.unmc.edu/bhecn/research-data-policy/2025legreportworkforceresearch.html
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The Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska (BHECN), pronounced “beacon”, was established in 2009 by a legislative bill to address the shortage of behavioral health professionals in rural and underserved areas of the state. It is a unique partnership among the state legislature, academic institutions, and community partners to create a statewide workforce solution to increase the number of licensed behavioral health professionals.
Operating from the UNMC campus and a “rural hub” location at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, BHECN is dedicated to improving access to behavioral and mental health care across the state of Nebraska by developing and retaining a skilled and passionate workforce. This is being accomplished through four major areas of focus: Recruitment through the Ambassador Program, preparing and training the future workforce, training and retention of the current workforce, and providing workforce reports and evaluation.
BHECN also supports psychiatric residency programs and recruits trainees for interprofessional clinical training sites and internships in rural and underserved areas.
BHECN also developed a statewide recruiting website with Region V Systems, www.NebraskaBehavioralHealthJobs.com, featuring exclusively behavioral health jobs in Nebraska. Employers can post unlimited jobs for free, and job seekers can search for free.
