Training With Credits
These training opportunities are available online with continuing education credits.
BHECN Webinar Series: Core Topics for Behavioral Health Providers
A free webinar series designed to educate behavioral health trainees on a variety of practical behavioral health topics, including schizophrenia, forensic issues and more. Trainees and providers can refer to these webinars as a supplemental resource to expand their knowledge in topics they may encounter as professionals.
Behavioral Health Integration for Primary Care Nurses:
Assessing and Responding to Self-Harm Behaviors in Primary Care Patients
This module focuses on the nurse's role in integrating behavioral health care in out-patient clinics/critical access hospitals (CAH). The content addresses immediate safety concerns for patients who experience behavioral health problems/crises and nursing interventions to promote patient and staff safety. The nurse's role in screening, assessment, and follow-up after a behavioral health crisis, including future recovery plans is also covered.
Rural Provider Support Network Conference
The 5th annual BHECN Panhandle Annual Conference (formerly known as the Rural Provider Support Conference) is now available as three enduring modules.
Most of Nebraska is considered a shortage area for behavioral health providers of all types. Particularly hit by this are our rural areas.
Research indicates that this problem is furthered by difficulties with recruiting and retaining providers in our most isolated areas. The Rural Provider Support Network Conference is intended to develop support systems for providers in rural practice to increase our ability to retain providers in these most needed areas.
Training Without Credits
The following learning opportunities are still available online, however, if they originally included continuing education credits they have now expired.
Rural Provider Support Network Conference
The 4th annual Rural Provider Support Conference is now available as three enduring modules!
Most of Nebraska is considered a shortage area for behavioral health providers of all types. Particularly hit by this are our rural areas.
Research indicates that this problem is furthered by difficulties with recruiting and retaining providers to our most isolated areas. The Rural Provider Support Network Conference is intended to develop support systems for providers in rural practice to increase our ability to retain providers in these most needed areas.
Tele-Behavioral Health Primary Care Webinars
BHECN is partnering with the Munroe-Meyer Institute and the Nebraska Partnership for Mental Healthcare Access in Pediatrics for this three-part enduring webinar series:
The Tele-Behavioral Health Consultation Primary Care Webinar Series seeks to provide primary care providers (PCPs) with the tools they need to increase their confidence and competence in managing psychiatric and behavioral health concerns in primary care.
Establishing a Behavioral Health Practice in a Rural Setting
This video series is a BHECN Panhandle webinar series focused on helping students, early-career practitioners, or entrepreneurs looking to expand or develop a behavioral health practice in a rural setting.
The presenters are behavioral health professionals experienced in creating and managing various types of rural practices.
Brain Injury Awareness Webinar Series: The Intersection of Brain Injury and Behavioral Health Needs
BHECN is partnering with Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska for this two-part webinar series. The series will provide an overview of brain injuries, how to screen for them, and the effects of physical and emotional trauma on the brain. The unique symptoms, needs, and treatments for individuals with brain injuries are discussed.
The 3rd annual Rural Behavioral Health Provider Support Conference
The 3rd annual Rural Behavioral Health Provider Support Conference is now available as three enduring modules! These modules are intended for behavioral health providers across Nebraska, with a focus on providers (psychologists, LMHPs, PMHNPs, registered nurses, social workers and counselors) in rural areas of the state.
Mental Health in the Wake of a Flood
BHECN partnered with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center (NUPPC) for four-part webinar series, Focus on Forensic Mental Health.
1) Promoting Healthcare Provider Safety: A Comprehensive Approach presented by Lynn M. Van Male, PhD, CTM, 2) Mental Health Courts
presented by Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, 3) Patients & Prisoners: The Evolving Role of Correctional Psychiatry presented by Dr. Jacqueline Landess and Dr. Brian Holoyda, and 4) Limiting Liability: A Clinical Forensic Psychologist Perspective presented by Dr. Scott A. Bresler.
Online Training Modules - ADHD and Behavioral Health Screen Modules
BHECN has produced two online learning modules on ADHD and one module on Behavioral Health Screening that provide professionally developed, peer-reviewed, clinically relevant, and educationally sound materials to maintain and strengthen the competency of behavioral health providers across Nebraska.
A series of webinars by Michael Jibson MD, PhD, Director of Psychiatry Residency Education and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, as part of a newly created learning community called the Midwestern Psychiatric Education Network (M-PEN). The intended audience is prescribers who treat patients with depression, including primary care, internal medicine, family practice, psychiatric, and pediatric providers, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners.
Rural Behavioral Health 2020 Conference Webinars
The 3rd annual conference was held virtually on 5/15/2020 and is now available for online continuing education credits. This series of webinars will provide information for rural mental health providers on a variety of relevant topics: self-care and wellness, providing behavioral health services to the ag community, and ethics of telehealth.
The Mental and Behavioral Health Care Webinar Series provides education on behavioral health best practices for patient clinical care, promotes recovery, and reduces stigma for nursing professionals. Featuring psych nursing experts from across the state, the series connects busy professionals with practical clinical knowledge and resources.
Catherine Jones-Hazledine, PhD, a licensed psychologist practicing in the Panhandle, conducted a day-long training in partnership with ESU 13 to offer training to teachers and school staff on addressing some of the behavioral health challenges students face.