Behavioral health workforce education and training program - project overview: seattle university's achieving optimal childhood, adolescence and young adulthood (a-OCAY): an integrated, holistic,…

Behavioral health workforce education and training program - project overview: seattle university's achieving optimal childhood, adolescence and young adulthood (a-OCAY): an integrated, holistic, and community-engaged model for interprofessional behavioral health workforce education and training in the evergreen state project, an interprofessional collaboration between MSW, macft, and pmhnp programs, aims to increase the supply of a diverse behavioral health workforce by strengthening university-community partnerships to increase of new and expanded community partnerships with experiential training sites in high-need and high-demand areas, by promoting interprofessional training and system integration, by recruiting/placing trainees interested in working with children, adolescents, and young adults, and by recruiting/expanding clinical supervisors' capacity to support and mentor trainees. Measurable objectives: 1. Recruit, place, monitor, and provide stipends to 48 behavioral health (MSW, macft, pmhnp) trainees in experiential training sites; 2. Enhance didactic and experiential training activities that develop trainee competencies in behavioral health and its integration into primary care, school settings, and other sub-specialty care for the development and implementation of interprofessional training through the interprofessional behavioral health training curriculum (which comprises 11 training modules and the trainee interprofessional learning community); 3. Create and enhance current evidence-based interprofessional training for faculty and field site supervisors supporting trainees through the collaborative conversation communities and the 11 training modules; 4. Incorporate technology integration within the training modules (tele-behavioral health services, digital health literacy) and asynchronous and hybrid training modalities; 5. Establish relationships with 12 new community-based partners to assist students with job placement after graduation; 6. Collect national provider identifier numbers from all trainees before the end of the training year; 7. Provide continuous quality improvement for program evaluation and at completion of the period of performance; and 8. Collaborate regularly with other grant recipients of the bhwet pro to leverage resources and enhance interprofessional training opportunities and amplify students' success stories. The a-OCAY project will be accomplished by the team of three collaborating program directors and faculty from MSW, macft, pmhnp with expertise in community-based mental health care, mental health care in primary settings, trauma-informed care with children, adolescents, and young adults. All three collaborating programs have proven history of educating/training and placing/monitoring trainees in experiential training in high need and high demand areas. We seek funding preference (qualification #1) based on our high rate for placing graduates in practice settings that have a principal focus on serving residents of medically underserved community and funding priority 1 for demonstrating the ability to train psychology, psychiatry, and social work professionals to work in integrated care settings.