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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Building the Future Workforce: Youth Pathways into Behavioral Health Careers
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Building the Future Workforce: Youth Pathways into Behavioral Health Careers\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 19\, 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: As demand for behavioral health services continues to grow nationwide\, strengthening the workforce pipeline must begin earlier\, by engaging and supporting youth and young adults as future professionals\, advocates\, and peers. This Workforce Solutions Jam will spotlight innovative\, real-world strategies that are expanding pathways into behavioral health careers while centering lived experience\, equity\, and sustainability.  \n\n\n\nFeaturing leaders from workforce development\, provider networks\, and youth-led movements\, this session will explore how cross-sector partnerships\, policy and reimbursement strategies\, and youth-driven program design can collectively build a stronger\, more resilient behavioral health workforce. Panelists will share lessons learned from advancing career pathways for youth\, including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and discuss how to cultivate a mission-driven workforce in under-resourced and highly regulated environments.  \n\n\n\nParticipants will leave with actionable insights on how to design\, support\, and scale youth-focused workforce initiatives that not only address shortages but also transform the future of behavioral health care.  \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives:   \n\n\n\n\nIdentify key barriers and opportunities in developing youth-centered behavioral health workforce pathways\, including policy\, funding\, and system-level challenges \n\n\n\n\n\nExplore innovative models for engaging youth and young adults as peer advocates\, trainees\, and future behavioral health professionals \n\n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the role of cross-sector partnerships (e.g.\, education\, workforce systems\, provider organizations) in building sustainable career pipelines \n\n\n\n\n\nExamine strategies to support inclusive workforce development\, particularly for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and those with lived experience \n\n\n\n\n\nApply practical approaches to strengthen recruitment\, training\, and retention of a mission-driven behavioral health workforce starting at the youth level \n\n\n\n\nAudience: We welcome all who are interested in building youth pathways into the behavioral health workforce. The material is primarily structured to provide maximum value to behavioral health leaders\, workforce development organizations\, policymakers\, and youth-serving organizations developing and supporting early career pipelines.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArc Telos Saint Amour\n\n\n\n\n\nArc Telos Saint Amour (they/them) is a disabled\, queer and trans\, Two-Spirit person of Mexican Native Indigenous descent (Coahuiltecan).   \n\n\n\nGrowing up houseless and hungry\, in and out of child welfare\, mental health\, and other systems\, they eventually found themselves gang-involved and carceral system-impacted\, which fortunately is where they found the power of peer support. Although still systems-impacted today\, Telos has taken their identity as a victim/survivor of childhood trauma and developed that lived and living experience into a passion for systems change\, policy reform\, and abolitionist\, decolonization practices.  \n\n\n\nRead more\nBelieving in self-agency and bodily autonomy\, Arc Telos considers themselves to be a peer supporter and a harm reductionist\, trying to empower others while navigating their own co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use journey. This has led them to a deep belief in Native Indigenous Animism\, radical empathy\, and the power of holistic affirmation and healing. Professionally\, Arc Telos spent over ten years as a national executive business developer\, opening new businesses all over the US. Following this\, Arc Telos has spent over ten years as an executive leader in the non-profit field\, leading organizations through-out the nation centering Justice\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and using trauma-informed and intersectionality-based frameworks. Currently they are the Executive Director of Youth MOVE National\, deeply embedded within youth advocacy work\, and the CEO of A.T. Consulting\, as well as involved in several boards (Black and Pink\, ForYouPage.Org\, Unified Youth\, etc.). Telos is of course more than just their career and identities. They are deeply passionate about all genres of music\, documentaries\, hiking and other outdoor adventures (in which they are infamous for achieving minor injuries and the loss of shoes)\, and absolutely refusing to be anyone other than Princess Peach in Mario Kart or Mario Party.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Mathews\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Mathews is the Executive Director of The Arc of Greater New Orleans (ArcGNO)\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting inclusion and supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A licensed clinical social worker\, she brings experience working with individuals with co-occurring developmental disabilities and mental health needs\, and focuses on expanding workforce opportunities\, strengthening community integration\, and advancing supportive policies. Under her leadership\, ArcGNO has strengthened its position as a trusted regional resource\, while expanding innovative workforce development initiatives and social enterprises that create meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebekah Falkner\, LMSW\n\n\n\n\n\nRebekah Falkner rejoined National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) in 2022.  Most recently\, Rebekah has focused on the behavioral health workforce shortage\, rural mental health care delivery\, and the expansion of peer services in Texas.  Rebekah has also worked on the Texas 1115 Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program and Money Follows the Person.  Prior to working in Texas\, Rebekah was a part of NASHP’s work in Arkansas centering on supported employment.  Rebekah grew up in Mississippi\, earning a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Mississippi and a Master of Social Work from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSydney Carter\, MPH\, BBA\n\n\n\n\n\nSydney Carter is the WREDI Program Manager at The Network of Behavioral Health Providers (NBHP)\, a behavioral health workforce development initiative.  Sydney Carter served (NBHP) as the Policy Program & Special Projects Manager until March 2025\, during which her duties included assisting with the WREDI Program at half capacity. Immediately prior\, she served as the Program & Policy Coordinator for NBHP.  \n\n\n\nRead more\nPrior to joining NBHP in July 2020 as The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health\, Mental Health Policy Fellow\, Sydney completed her Master of Public Health program at The University of Texas (UTHealth) Health Science Center at Houston\, School of Public Health\, with a focus in Healthcare Management. Before that\, she graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a focus in Operations Management and a minor in Health Education.  Sydney has work experience in varying sectors\, including: mental health and substance use\, policy & legislative advocacy\, cancer care\, corporate wellness\, information technology\, business\, education\, and general fitness. Sydney is a passionate advocate for mental health and substance use access and policy change\, especially in Texas\, and also is a lifelong advocate for animal welfare in her personal life. In her free time\, she enjoys volunteering at the Houston SPCA\, reading\, exercising\, traveling\, being outdoors\, and spending time with family\, friends\, and her 4-year-old-dog-who-is-still-a-puppy\, Theo.  \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 new 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.
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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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