Workforce Solutions Jam: Behavioral Health Workforce 2025

Critical Insights and Emerging Challenges

The behavioral health landscape remains complex, with systemic challenges overlapping with workforce needs, technological innovation and shifting policy developments. In this session, behavioral health workforce experts discuss current workforce challenges, emerging solutions and lessons learned for maintaining focus and attention on workforce initiatives throughout policy shifts. 
   
Join us for a conversation about navigating increasingly complex environments marked by changes in policy frameworks and heightened demand for robust workforce strategies. The ability to anticipate, understand and proactively respond to systemic shifts will be paramount for workforce sustainability in 2025 and beyond. 

Featured Speakers:

• Jonah C. Cunningham, President and CEO, National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors
• Michael Hoge, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Behavioral Health
• Wendy Morris, RN, MSN, CS, Senior Behavioral Health Advisor, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
• Reyna Taylor, Vice President, Policy and Advocacy, National Council for Mental Wellbeing

The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Center for Workforce Solutions, hosted as a partnership between the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates.