Creating and Enhancing Pathways to a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Behavioral Health Workforce
August 18, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MDT
DESCRIPTION
Join this NNED Virtual Roundtable to hear about strategies that motivate racially/ethnically diverse individuals to consider behavioral health as a career path. Discover how community-based organizations are working to diversify the behavioral health workforce including recruiting and retaining racially/ethnically diverse staff. Learn from panelists about professional pathways and programs/trainings that support racially/ethnically diverse people in behavioral health careers.
OBJECTIVES
- Understand the importance and impact of a racially/ethnically diverse behavioral health workforce.
- Examine how community-based organizations can create career development experiences in behavioral health such as internships and trainings for racially/ethnically diverse people.
- Identify national and regional programs for professional pathways that support racially/ethnically diverse people in behavioral health careers.
- Learn about strategies to promote the behavioral healthcare field to make it more inviting and interesting to racially/ethnically diverse young people.
The event will be shared on Facebook Live at fb.com/nned.net and closed captioning will be available.
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August 18, 2021
1:00 – 1:30 pm ET / 12:00 – 1:30 pm CT / 11:00 am – 12:30 pm MT / 10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 8:00 – 9:30 am HT
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