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Engage & Recruit Students

Ambassador Program helps students explore careers in behavioral health.
Prepare & Train Students

BHECN provides support to students and trainees in behavioral health fields.
Retain & Support Current Workforce

Support the current workforce through professional development, training and resources.
Workforce Overview

BHECN evaluates the behavioral health workforce in Nebraska.

The Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska (BHECN) recruits & educates students in behavioral health fields and trains & retains professionals already in the workforce. Learn more

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In partnership with the Munroe-Meyer Institute, 43 integrated behavioral health/primary care clinics have been established across Nebraska. Twenty-five of these clinics serve rural areas and eighteen serve urban areas.
In addition to providing ease of behavioral health service access to children, adolescents and families across Nebraska, these clinics serve as critical behavioral health intern training sites, training 47 students in 2017 & 2018. Read more.

Watch this BHECN Spotlight with Kristen Hembree, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Meet Mark Carter, a first-year medical student at UNMC. Mark was interested in human physiology at a young age and is working toward a career in psychiatry or neurology. Read the rest of Mark's story online!
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