Maryland Behavioral Health Workforce Champions Learning Community

Free learning community packed with value, content, connections, resources, and paid workforce tools at no-cost to participants and their organizations

The Walden WELL Behavioral Health Workforce Champions Learning Community brings together addiction providers and leaders to learn about research-backed strategies that protect against professional distress, share wisdom and experiences from the field, and co-create a community of like-minded workforce champions.

We'll deepen your learning and help you thrive with proven experiential exercises, share paid tools at no cost to you, and offer weekly content for your whole organization to benefit right away from your leadership.

Applications Due April 30

Ready to apply? Click Here to Go to the Application (it should take abut ten minutes to complete)

Participants

Participants should be Maryland addiction service providers or leaders of addiction-service providing organizations. 

The Program

Participants in this eight-month program gain the knowledge and tools needed to cultivate workforce engagement, resilience, professional development, and effectiveness within their organizations and beyond. The learning community establishes participants as leaders in workforce strategies within their organization and field while delivering immediate value to their organizations. Participants receive tailored resources, coaching, and practical strategies to improve job quality and retention, alongside opportunities to network and share insights with like-minded peers in a small, focused cohort. 

Our team will support you to understand your organization's strengths and opportunities to build on them, develop a plan of action, and pilot an organizational intervention that is tailored for your setting and aligned with research. We'll share weekly burnout-prevention, resilience, and wellbeing content that you can share within your organization, and we'll co-create a community of like-minded workforce champions to continue the work in the ways the group decides, with the opportunity to build a sustainable virtual community and stay connected. 

Maryland CEUs

Walden WELL is in the process of applying for 12 CEU credit hours with the Maryland Addiction & Behavioral-Health Professionals Certification Board (MABHPCB) and MD Board of Social Work Examiners (MBSWE). We anticipate having these in place ahead of our June 17 kickoff.  

Modules

Module 1: The WELL Framework and Leadership

Module 2: Wellbeing

Module 3: Engagement

Module 4: Learning

Module 5: Supervision, Structure, and Workload

Module 6: Model BH Workforce and Wellbeing Programs

Module 7: The BH Workforce and Lived Experience

Module 8: Culminating Presentations

Important Dates

• Applications Due: April 30
• Application Decisions: May 15

Beginning in June, we plan to meet on the second Tuesday of each month from 3:00-4:30pm.

Have questions? Email our program director, Mark O'Brien, at [email protected].

Ready to apply? Click here to go to the application due April 30.