From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Congratulations to Bernadette Heckman

Growing Georgia’s Behavioral Health Workforce Through Transformative Experiential Training

  • PI: Bernadette Heckman, professor, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services
  • Co-PIs: Amanda Giordano, associate professor, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services; Jolie Daigle, professor, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services; Rosemary Phelps, professor, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services; Orion Mowbray, associate professor, UGA School of Social Work; Jennifer Elkins, associate professor, UGA School of Social Work
  • Sponsor: Health Resources and Services Administration
  • Amount: $1,918,245

Congratulations to professor Bernadette Heckman and her team, including College of Education faculty members and co-PIs Amanda Giordano, Jolie Daigle, and Rosemary Phelps, for receiving a Health Resources and Services Administration Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals grant.

This project’s goals are to increase Georgia’s behavioral health workforce and expand integrated behavioral health/primary care outreach in Georgia by training graduate students to become behavioral health providers in rural and high-need areas of the state. The project will place a gender, racially, and ethnically diverse group of trainees in various community/clinical venues in which they will receive real-world experiential and interdisciplinary training.

View the grant webpage.