Recruiting Resources

The mental health needs of military veterans and active service members represent one of the most urgent and most specialized behavioral health workforce challenges in the United States. An estimated 20% of post-9/11 veterans have PTSD or depression; veteran suicide...

The demand for LGBTQ+ affirming behavioral health services has grown significantly in the last decade, driven by increasing LGBTQ+ population visibility and self-identification, growing awareness of the mental health disparities experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals, and...

Forensic mental health is one of the most specialized and most chronically understaffed niches in behavioral health. The intersection of mental health clinical practice with the legal system — evaluating competency and criminal responsibility, treating individuals in...

Integrated behavioral health — the embedding of licensed behavioral health clinicians within primary care teams — has become the fastest-growing employment setting for licensed therapists and clinical social workers in the United States. Primary care practices, FQHCs,...

The child and adolescent behavioral health workforce shortage is one of the most urgent and most consequential in American healthcare. The mental health crisis among children and teenagers — accelerated by the pandemic, social media, academic pressure, family...

Geriatric mental health is the most overlooked behavioral health workforce gap in the United States. The population aged 65 and older is the fastest-growing demographic in the country, with more than 54 million Americans currently in this age group and projections...

Trauma-informed care has moved from a specialty orientation to a foundational expectation in behavioral health practice. The recognition that the majority of people seeking mental health services have experienced significant adversity — and that untreated trauma...

Music therapy, art therapy, drama therapy, and dance/movement therapy occupy a specific and often misunderstood niche in behavioral health. These expressive arts disciplines are not supplemental activities or recreational programming — when delivered by...

One of the most common mistakes behavioral health employers make in recruiting is treating outpatient and inpatient clinical positions as variations of the same search. They are not. The skills, motivations, temperament, career goals, and professional preferences of...

The Vice President of Clinical Operations is the executive who makes a behavioral health platform's clinical infrastructure work at scale. As group practices grow from a handful of locations to dozens, and as PE-backed platforms build multi-state footprints, the...

The behavioral health case manager is one of the most undervalued and most understaffed roles in the community mental health system. Case managers — who coordinate services, connect clients to resources, monitor treatment adherence, manage housing and benefits...

The peer support specialist — a person with lived experience of mental health challenges, substance use, or both, who has achieved stability in their recovery and is trained to support others navigating similar challenges — is the fastest-growing workforce category in...