Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska

- Programs and Training Overview
- - Lifelong Learning Fund
    BHECN's Lifelong Learning fund supports educational and career engagement opportunities to help grow our state's behavioral health workforce.
  - Graduate Trainee Stipend Program
    The Graduate Trainee Stipend Program financially supports master's-level students during select advanced practicum or internship experiences.
  - Mentoring Program
    BHECN's mentorship program provides guidance and support to undergraduate and graduate-level students seeking licensed behavioral health careers in Nebraska.
  - BHECN Scholars
    The BHECN Scholars program supports undergraduate seniors who plan to pursue master’s degrees in Nebraska-based behavioral health programs.
- - Core Topics
    This accredited continuing education activity is designed for Behavioral Health providers to include psychologists, nurses, therapists, and social workers.
  - Project PEACE
    The Project PEACE Webinar Series is a series of webinars recorded by psychiatry residents on rotation with BHECN.
  - Telehealth Training
    Following the COVID-19 pandemic, day-to-day use of telehealth allows people to connect safely and effectively to mental health services no matter where they are located.
- Partnerships Overview
- Nebraska Behavioral Health Education Partnership (NEBHEP)
  BHECN partners with the 19 academic institutions to track the number of graduate-level behavioral health education students graduating and staying in Nebraska.
- Nebraska Behavioral Health Training Partnership
  BHECN establishes partnerships to create and disseminate educational materials for the development of the behavioral health workforce.
- Advisory Groups
  BHECN’s advisory groups provide input that shapes our work and help us keep up with the latest challenges and issues facing Nebraska’s behavioral health workforce.
- Research, Data & Policy Overview
- Nebraska Behavioral Health Workforce Dashboard
  The dashboard helps policy makers, employers, and behavioral health care stakeholders understand the state of the behavioral health workforce.
- Legislative Reports
  BHECN's biennial legislative reports examine the characteristics of actively practicing behavioral health providers in Nebraska.
- Nebraska Behavioral Health Policy Forum
  This forum discussed how investments in BHECN are being used to recruit, train, and retain behavioral health and rural healthcare providers across Nebraska.
- ARPA
  Access information related BHECN’s allocation of $25.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars to Nebraska behavioral health providers.
- BHECN's Published Research
  See a listing of BHECN's published research.
- BHECN Sites Overview
- BHECN Panhandle
  Our BHECN Panhandle site supports our mission of recruitment and retention of behavioral health professionals in Western Nebraska.
- BHECN Central
  BHECN Central is a remote site for training and workforce development at the University of Nebraska Kearney that serves the central part of the state.
- BHECN Northeast
  BHECN Northeast is a remote site based at Wayne State College that facilitates training and workforce development in Northeast Nebraska.
- BHECN East
  BHECN East is located at the UNO Grace Abbott School of Social Work and focuses primarily on the behavioral health workforce needs of the Omaha area.
- BHECN Southwest
  BHECN Southwest is a remote site based in North Platte that facilitates training and workforce development in Southwest Nebraska.
BHECN Model

— Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska — Partnerships — Nebraska Behavioral Health Education Partnership

Nebraska Behavioral Health Education Partnership

BHECN partners with the 20 academic institutions providing graduate-level behavioral health education in Nebraska to track the number of students graduating and staying in Nebraska. The goals of the collaboration -- known as the Nebraska Behavioral Health Education Partnership -- are to strengthen relationships among all of the programs, create a unified voice among the different professions, gather data to inform trends along the workforce pipeline, and develop more interprofessional training opportunities for students across the state.

Our Partners

Bellevue University – Counseling Program
Chadron State College – Counseling Program
Concordia University – Marriage and Family Therapy
Creighton University – Psychiatry Residency Program
Doane University – Counseling Program
University of Nebraska-Kearney – Counseling Program
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – Clinical Psychology
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – Counseling Psychology
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – Marriage & Family Therapy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – School Psychology

UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute – Dept. of Psychology
UNMC - Psychiatric Nursing
University of Nebraska-Omaha – Dept. of Counseling
UNO/UNMC – Applied Behavior Analysis
University of Nebraska-Omaha – Grace Abbott School of Social Work
Wayne State College – Counseling Program
Creighton University – Psychiatric Nursing
UNMC – Psychiatry Residency Program
Clarkson College – Psychiatric Nursing
Nebraska Wesleyan University – Social Work