Recruiting and Retaining Behavioral Health Workers in Rural America: A Toolkit for Action

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Explores successful tactics and programs, and elements missing from many current efforts to recruit and retain behavioral health workers. Describes funding opportunities, pipeline programs, telehealth initiatives, innovative approaches to recruitment and retention, and legislative changes in 2019 that helped promote recruitment and retention.

Nancy Baum, Jaque King

02/2020

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Center for Health and Research Transformation, University of Michigan Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center

Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Graduate medical education · Health workforce pipeline · Health workforce supply and demand · Legislation and regulations · Loans, loan repayment, and loan forgiveness for health careers · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Telehealth