{"id":63917,"date":"2019-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/24\/bhecn-awarded-3-7-million-grant\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:26:55","slug":"bhecn-awarded-3-7-million-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/24\/bhecn-awarded-3-7-million-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"BHECN awarded $3.7 million grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska (BHECN) at UNMC has received a five-year, $3.7 million collaborative grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

The Mid-American Mental Health Technology & Transfer Center (MHTTC) grant will provide mental health training and technical assistance to behavioral health-focused agencies and 87 community health centers. It also will benefit behavioral health professionals, schools, federally qualified health centers, state agencies such as divisions of behavioral health, regional associations of behavioral health providers and individual providers in a four-state region, which includes Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. <\/p>\n

“In the last two years the grants we’ve received have tripled the initial funding of $1.5 million that came out of the state legislature, and that support has been so instrumental in getting the center where it is today,” said Howard Liu, M.D., director of BHECN and co-project director of the grant and chair of the UNMC Department of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n

The grant also is a reflection of the expertise BHECN has.<\/p>\n

“BHECN was chosen to receive the award due to its history with training and consultation across mental health topics,” said Joe Evans, Ph.D., project director of the grant and professor of psychology at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at UNMC. <\/p>\n

The grant will focus on four areas, he said, including: <\/p>\n