MSU, UM receive $1.9M for mental health care training

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration awarded Montana’s two largest universities a $1.9 million grant to continue a program that provides additional training on mental health care for nursing and behavioral health students.

The money will go to the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program, a program through both Montana State University and the University of Montana.

The program provides additional training on mental health care for graduate students pursuing careers as psychiatric mental health nurses, clinical psychologists, licensed social workers and professional counselors, said Rebecca Pogoda, the clinical instructor with MSU’s College of Nursing.

Students are placed in institutions, agencies and clinics, typically in integrated behavioral health settings, across western Montana amid a lack of mental health professionals, said Mary-Ann Sontag Bowman, a UM social work associate professor and the principal investigator for the grant in a UM news release.

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