“Behavioral Health Care Workforce Development and Innovation”
About This Issue
The Winter 2026 issue of Behavioral Health News centers on the growing workforce challenges shaping the behavioral health field, from burnout and turnover to recruitment and retention across diverse settings, populations, and levels of care.
Contributors highlight practical, forward-looking solutions, including peer support, trauma-informed supervision, leadership development, telehealth, data-driven strategies, and sustainable financing. Together, these articles offer actionable insights to strengthen the behavioral health workforce and support a more resilient system of care.
Articles in This Issue
A Faltering Behavioral Health Workforce and a Prescription for Progress
Addressing Nonparticipation in Treatment Courts: The 5 As Framework
Addressing the Needs of the Perinatal Behavioral Health Workforce
Amplifying Peer Specialists in the Behavioral Health Continuum of Care
Building and Maintaining New York’s Behavioral Health Care Workforce
Connecting Workplaces to Wellness: Structural Solutions to Burnout
Do Higher Wages, Benefits, and Career Development Reduce Turnover in Behavioral Health?
Healing at the Source: How Tribal Nations Are Redefining Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Integrated Psycho-Oncology: A Mandate for Behavioral Health Leaders
Keeping Clinicians in Private Practice: AI’s Role in Sustaining the Behavioral Health Workforce
Maternal Mental Health in CUNY/SUNY Public Universities as a Workforce Development Strategy
Re-imagining Conservatorship: Recovery and Career Planning Through Peer Support
Reaching the Unreachable: Why Human-Centered Engagement Is the Missing Link in Behavioral Health
Relapse Is Part of Recovery, Shame Shouldn’t Be: What I Wish More Families Understood
Relationships are Defined by How They End: The Importance of Acknowledging Loss at Work
Strengthening the Backbone: Supporting Mid-Level Managers in Nonprofit Organizations
Strengthening the Behavioral Health Workforce Through Upstream Overdose Prevention
Strengthening the Behavioral Health Workforce: Leadership Strategies for a System in Transition
Supporting Supervisors and Mid-Level Leaders in Behavioral Health Organizations
Telehealth and Its Role in Expanding Workforce Capacity
The Impact of Peer-Based Storytelling on Workplace Mental Health
The People Behind Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Neuromodulation
Transforming Access Through Strategic Investment in Behavioral Health Workforce Development
Using NIATx Process Improvement to Enhance Workforce Recruitment, Hiring, Retention & Promotion
What It’s Really Like Living with Bipolar Disorder
When Workforce Strategy Becomes a Finance Problem
Workforce Solutions in Behavioral Health: Insights from SMA Healthcare
