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TNT Primary Care Maternal Behavioral Health (MBH) Fellowship

A flexible, CME certificate program designed to help clinicians strengthen behavioral health care for women across the lifespan.

Training Experience 


  • Flexible Hybrid Format: Through case-based education, interactive learning and expert mentorship, fellows gain practical skills to integrate behavioral health care into women's health settings. 
     
  • Expert Faculty: Training is led by nationally recognized faculty with expertise in psychiatry, primary care, obstetrics and women's health. 

Curriculum Focus 


  • Comprehensive Women's Behavioral Health: The curriculum spans the full continuum of women's behavioral health, with a focus on prevention, early identification and treatment of mental health conditions from adolescence through pregnancy, postpartum, midlife and later adulthood. 
     
  • Health Equity: Special emphasis is placed on improving access to care and addressing the unique needs of women in underserved and historically marginalized populations. 

Eligibility 

Open to multidisciplinary clinicians caring for women across the lifespan, including behavioral health professionals, community health professionals, doulas, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, midwives, nurses, obstetricians and gynecologists, pediatricians, pharmacists, psychiatrists, women’s health professionals, MDs, DOs, NPs, PAs, PharmDs and other qualified licensed healthcare professionals.

What You Will Learn 

Through this fellowship, clinicians gain practical skills to: 

  • Recognition & Assessment: Recognize early symptoms of common reproductive psychiatric conditions in women and complete targeted primary care psychiatric assessments. 
     
  • Women's Mental Health Care: Diagnose and treat reproductive behavioral health conditions affecting women across all life stages.
     
  • Evidence-Informed Treatment: Provide evidence-informed interventions using cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, motivational interviewing and appropriate medications. 
     
  • Practice Leadership: Train new educators and expand behavioral health expertise within their clinic or region. 

Nationally Recognized Impact


2,000+ TNT Fellows 

Proven, evidence-informed curriculum transforming primary care delivery. 

Dual-Trained Leadership


50+ Faculty  

Learn directly from national experts in psychiatry, primary care and reproductive psychiatry. 

Career-Long Mentorship


30+ Community Partners

Gain a collaborative network and ongoing guidance throughout your career. 

This training program is offered as part of the California Rural Health Transformation (CalRHT) Program, a statewide initiative supporting rural health workforce development, administered by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI).
 
The CalRHT program is supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial award totaling $233,639,308.46, with 100 percent funded by CMS/HHS. The contents are those of CalRHT and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CMS/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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