Behavioral Health Workforce and Education Training Program

The Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program was introduced as part of President Obama’s Now is the Time initiative to increase the mental and behavioral health workforce serving children, students, and young adults. Although the program has been broadened since then to support the training of mental and behavioral health providers with vulnerable and underserved populations across the lifespan, a special focus remains on the knowledge and understanding of children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth at-risk for behavioral health disorders.

BHWET supports predegree clinical internships and field placements for doctoral-level psychology students, masters-level psychology students, master’s-level social workers, school social workers, professional and school counselors, psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners, occupational therapists, behavioral pediatrics, training programs in psychiatry, substance use disorder prevention, and marriage and family therapists.