The Montana Office of Rural Health & AHEC aims to support an effective and sustainable behavioral health workforce that strengthens the delivery of care and improves access to services throughout Montana. Innovative workforce education and training approaches have been developed to support employer business operations in behavioral health and equip the workforce with skills to meet the unique needs of their communities. We offer a number of trainings in various topics that can be taken as stand-alone or part of tiered training programs.

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Fundamentals of Behavioral Health Training

This training provides the knowledge and skills necessary to understand the basics of behavioral health and mental health illnesses, treatments, and resources.

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Montana Family Support Program

Preparing behavioral health paraprofessionals to work with youth and families feeling the impact of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD).

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Behavioral Health Training Program

Preparing paraprofessionals to work in team-based models of care in order to address the social and behavioral needs of our rural and frontier communities.

 

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Behavioral Health Workforce Education & Training - Professional 

The goal of this program is to increase access to quality and culturally appropriate behavioral health services in Montana’s counties in eastern and north central Montana.

 

Questions? 

Beth Ann Carter
Assistant Director/Behavioral Health Workforce
406.925.1261
beth.carter@montana.edu

 

The MORH/AHEC Behavioral Health programs are supported by grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official view of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.