Behavioral Health Workforce Institute
Advancing Behavioral Health Clinical Careers Through Innovative Apprenticeships
Advancement in Behavioral Health requires time-intensive and expensive degrees and licenses. Models integrating apprenticeships with employer-embedded education and licensure mitigate these challenges for incumbent workers.
Caregiving, high costs, and low wages prevent frontline workers in Behavioral Health, who are predominantly women, from pausing work to earn degrees and licenses required for advancement and higher wages. In this project, employers partner with higher education allowing incumbent workers to engage in coursework and apprenticeships to earn graduate degrees and professional licensure, while employers gain apprenticeship benefits. Both help to repair the "broken rung" in women's career pathways and diversify the field.
Primary Barrier
The Broken Rung
Location
Massachusetts
Solution Region
New England
Community Type
Urban
Annual Operating Budget
$1.0 to 5 Million
