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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Apprenticeship as a pathway for enhancing workforce recruitment and retention
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Apprenticeship as a pathway for enhancing workforce recruitment and retention\n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 18\, 2026 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nThis webinar is hosted as a partnership between the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)\, The National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, and Health Management Associates (HMA).  \n\n\n\nWebinar description: Innovative apprenticeship in behavioral health and health care expand and enhance the workforce through paid\, structured\, career‑pathway training models that blend on‑the‑job learning with classroom instruction. Across the U.S.\, these programs are being used to address severe shortages in mental health\, substance‑use treatment\, and broader health care roles. This work requires intentional non-traditional partnerships and investments to create lasting impacts on the workforce gap. We will explore a number of models of apprenticeship as well as understand key features for a successful apprenticeship approaches. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives:   \n\n\n\n\nDescription of apprenticeship programs and how they work\n\n\n\nOutcomes of apprenticeship success\n\n\n\nRole of partnerships in apprenticeship programs\n\n\n\nIdentify key components of successful programs\n\n\n\nExamine innovative apprenticeship models\n\n\n\n\nAudience: We welcome all who are interested in strengthening the behavioral health and health care workforce through apprenticeship and other earn-and-learn career pathway models. The material is primarily structured to provide maximum value to behavioral health and health care leaders\, workforce development organizations\, educators\, policymakers\, employers\, and community partners developing and supporting sustainable workforce pipelines. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeline Boehm\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeline Boehm with Healthcare Career Advancement Program (H-CAP) \n\n\n\nMadeline Boehm is a Registered Apprenticeship Program Manager and is based in Helena\, Montana. Madeline joined H-CAP in November 2021\, after 16 years working for the State of Montana. Most recently she worked with Montana Tribal Health Centers and Urban Indian Health Centers on suicide prevention. \n\n\n\nRead more\nPrevious to her work with the Indigenous community\, Madeline worked for more than 5 years with the Montana’s Registered Apprenticeship Program\, developing and implementing healthcare apprenticeships statewide. During Madeline’s time\, Montana went from zero healthcare apprenticeships to over three hundred\, with over fifty different employers and over twenty different occupations. Prior to her work with apprenticeship\, Madeline worked in regulation with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services where she was the Program Manager of the Nurse Aide Registry and the Training Coordinator for the State Survey Agency.  \n\n\n\nMadeline sees one of her main roles as facilitating conversations on how workforce issues in healthcare can ultimately lead to better patient and resident care. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Brown Joseph\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Brown Joseph\, Senior Consultant\, Health Management Associates \n\n\n\nShannon Brown Joseph is a dynamic and accomplished workforce development liaison with experience in federal and state funded programs\, diversity initiatives\, and programmatic development. Shannon incorporates diversity initiatives\, strategic partnerships\, policy development and programmatic design into talent pipeline creation. \n\n\n\nRead More\nShe is a recognized thought leader\, presenting industry best practices for education\, training and work-based learning to national audiences. Her expertise allows her to support the development of registered apprenticeships and customized talent training for in-demand positions\, meeting organizations’ strategic objectives. \n\n\n\nBefore joining Health Management Associates\, Shannon was national director of nursing workforce pipeline for Ascension Health\, one of the largest health systems in the United States. Shannon directed nursing and nursing support workforce development programs for the system\, supporting more than 150\,000 employees and 2\,600 sites of care\, including 142 hospitals\, nationwide. \n\n\n\nShannon previously served as director of workforce development at Ochsner Health. Here\, she led her team to not only increase their initiatives by over 500 percent but also implemented the initiatives throughout the system’s entire footprint. Within three years\, Shannon connected more than 2\,000 individuals to education\, training and job placement. She accomplished this via resource acquisition efforts throughout her tenure\, valued at more than $7 million. \n\n\n\nIn addition to her health system experience\, Shannon has worked in workforce development with state agencies. Receiving an appointment as assistant secretary of labor in Louisiana\, Shannon oversaw all of the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s (LWC) workforce development programs. She was responsible for the statewide network of American Job Centers\, Business Services\, Incumbent Worker Training\, Apprenticeship\, Veterans’ Services\, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services\, Rapid Response\, Labor Programs and state administration of the Community Services Block Grant programs. \n\n\n\nPrior to her appointment\, Shannon served the LWC as industry sector coordinator\, where she successfully established a major partnership within the healthcare sector. This partnership continues to provide medical training and employment opportunities for long-term unemployed citizens. Another partnership Shannon developed with Delgado Community College ensures intensive services for eligible veterans and their spouses\, specifically veterans who are homeless\, disabled\, low-income\, re-entering society following incarceration\, recently discharged from the military or lacking a high school diploma.  As part of the program\, full-time Disabled Veteran Outreach Program specialists were strategically placed on campus for student assistance. Shannon also convened the first cross-sector partnership in the state of Louisiana between the education and industry sectors. This collaboration led to standardized allied health training between all community colleges statewide. \n\n\n\nShannon earned her Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and her Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Loyola University in New Orleans. She is certified in diversity\, equity\, and inclusion by the University of South Florida and in workforce development by the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals. Shannon is a fellow in the William K. Kellogg Foundation Leadership and Community Engagement Fellowship\, and she has previously been a fellow in the Louisiana Institute of Politics. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in leadership from Liberty University. \n\n\n\nOutside of the office\, Shannon lends her experience and skills to several nonprofit organizations. She currently serves on the board of directors with of the Arc of Greater New Orleans\, Algiers Economic\, New Orleans Career Center and Clover. Shannon works with Goodwill Industries Technical and Training\, is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority\, and sits on advisory boards for Next Level Nola and the National Youth Employment Coalition Steering Committee for New Orleans and Los Angeles. In her travels\, she enjoys visiting museums and learning new languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Metoka Welch\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Metoka Welch\, Executive Dean\, Apprenticeship College of Health with Reach University. \n\n\n\nTransformational Leader. Apprenticeship Advocate. Passionate about Building Community and Expanding Possibility. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRead More\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Workforce Solutions Partnership. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Partnership is the name for the partnership between the National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, Health Management Associates and the College for Behavioral Health Leadership. The Center for Workforce Solutions continues to operate as an initiative of the National Council.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-apprenticeship-as-a-pathway-for-enhancing-workforce-recruitment-and-retention/
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SUMMARY:Mentorship in Motion with Marcy Melvin and Steve Appleton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an honest conversation with Marcy Melvin and Steve Appleton \n\n\n\nIn this dialogue\, Marcy and Steve will reflect on their experience at GLE’s 2026 Global Leadership Exchange: Ideas to action: inspiring leaders to mobilize collective solutions in Ottawa. She will share key takeaways from the Exchange\, discuss emerging global priorities\, and highlight the CBHL-sponsored gathering for North American behavioral health leaders. The conversation will focus on what these insights mean for the field and how they can inform leadership in practice. \n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to engage directly\, ask questions\, and reflect on how these lessons apply to their own work. This interactive session is designed for leaders at all levels and will explore how experience\, timing\, and decision-making shape lasting impact in behavioral health. \n\n\n\nWe invite attendees to join with cameras on\, if possible\, and come prepared to engage in thoughtful discussion and shared reflection. \n\n\n\nThis event will be delivered live and will not be recorded. By registering\, participants acknowledge that access is limited to the live session. All registrations are final and non-refundable. \n\n\n\nComplimentary for CBHL Members | $25 for Non-CBHL Members \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Glue Up\n\n\n\n\nSteve AppletonPresident and CEO of Global Leadership Exchange Steve has been in post since January 2022\, having previously worked as the European Regional Lead between 2019-2022 and UK Liaison between 2017-2019.Prior to this\, Steve was Managing Director of a consultancy and research practice specialising in work relating to mental health\, housing\, disability and older age.Steve originally trained as a social worker. He held several practice posts and operational management roles in local government and then worked as a senior manager in a regional agency of the English National Health Service\, leading on mental health strategy and performance. He has worked nationally and internationally on population based mental health improvement programs in cities and urban regions.He is the author of a range of UK national guidance and best practice and has played a leading role in population based mental health initiatives in cities across the UK and beyond.Alongside his role with GLE Steve also serves as Chair of the Board of the Association of Mental Health Providers in England and Wales\, and Chair of the Board of Beacon CHC. He is a member of the Global Leadership Council of eMHIC and a Global Advisor to the Coalition for Mental Health Investment. Steve is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.\n\n\n\nMarcy MelvinSVP Clinical Policy\, Deputy Director of Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute Marcy Melvin is a pivotal executive with over 25 years of experience in behavioral health policy\, training\, and clinical practice. As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas her experience includes providing direct clinical and supervisory services to children\, youth\, parents\, and young adults in various clinical settings including residential\, in-home\, outpatient\, private practice\, primary\, secondary\, and post-secondary locations. Marcy is extremely passionate about advancing health equity and reducing disparities and disproportionality; this has been a culmination of her life’s work in various clinical\, organizational and systems settings.Marcy has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Fisk University.\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are CBHL Mentorship in Motion Dialogues? \nMentorship in Motion brings leaders together for honest conversations about leadership in behavioral health. Through shared experiences and lived wisdom\, participants will gain insights that they can carry into their own leadership journeys. \n\n\n\nWe invite attendees to join with cameras on\, if possible\, and come prepared to engage in thoughtful discussion and shared reflection. \n\n\n\nThis event will be delivered live and will not be recorded. All registrations are final and non-refundable. \n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Mentorship in Motion is to: \n\nLearn from Leadership Journeys: Gain insight from experienced behavioral health leaders as they share lessons learned\, pivotal moments\, and perspectives that have shaped their leadership paths.\n\n\n\nEngage in Honest Dialogue: Participate in open and thoughtful conversations about the challenges and opportunities of leadership in behavioral health\, creating a space for reflection and shared understanding.\n\n\n\nStrengthen Leadership Community: Build connections with fellow CBHL members through meaningful dialogue that supports mentorship\, peer learning\, and the development of behavioral health leaders.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/mentorship-in-motion-with-marcy-melvin-and-steve-appleton-2/
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