Here’s an example. During the COVID pandemic, the accessibility of comprehensive and granular data on Indiana’s BHHS professionals allowed the State to respond quickly, identifying pulmonologists (specialty) that work in inpatient settings (practice setting) in counties that were hardest hit by COVID-19 (practice location). These are three data fields that prior to SEA 223-2018 were not being captured on Indiana BHHS professionals.

Our hope is that this visualization tool makes Indiana’s robust health workforce data more accessible to everyone. If you would like more information about our sample size and data collection process, check the citations & resources section of this page. If these visualizations can’t answer your question, you can submit a data inquiry to us on a form located here or by emailing us at bowenctr@iu.edu.

The data that Behavioral Health Professionals regularly collect on license renewal to support regulatory processes is minimal and would not be sufficient to inform physician workforce policy and planning. Fortunately, Indiana has robust information available on Indiana BHHS professionals (thanks to SEA 223). The standardized collection of data from BHHS professionals during license renewal enables the state to conduct analyses and inform the creation of policies and programs for BHHS professionals that are based on high-quality workforce data.

• IC 25-0.5-4-31- Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Board https://iga.in.gov/laws/2019/ic/titles/25#25-0.5-4-31
• IC 25-23.6-10.5-5 Educational Requirements; addiction counselors- https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-10.5-5
• IC 25-23.6-10.5-6 Educational Requirements; clinical addiction counselors-https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-10.5-6
• IC 25-23.6-5-1.5 Bachelor’s degree of social work license requirements- https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-5-1.5
• IC 25-23.6-5-1- Social worker license requirements- https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-5-1
• IC 25-23.6-5-2- Clinical social worker license requirements- https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-5-2
• IC 25-23.6-5-3.1- Graduate School Requirements-Social Work- https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-5-3.1
• IC 25-23.6-8-2.5- Educational Requirements; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist- https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-8-2.5
• IC 25-23-1-1.4 – Educational Requirements; Licensed Mental Health Counselor – https://iga.in.gov/laws/2022/ic/titles/25#25-23.6-8.5-3IC
• Indiana Wages RNs: https://www.onetonline.org/link/localwages/29-1141.00?st=IN
• Indiana Employment Trends –Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors; https://www.onetonline.org/link/localtrends/21-1011.00?st=IN
• Indiana Employment Trends –Social Workers: https://www.onetonline.org/link/localtrends/21-1022.00?st=IN
• Indiana Employment Trends –Marriage and Family Therapists: https://www.onetonline.org/link/localtrends/21-1013.00?st=IN
• Indiana Employment Trends –Mental Health Counselors; https://www.onetonline.org/link/localtrends/21-1014.00?st=IN

Indiana BHHS Professionals License and Supplemental Data, to see the most recent visit the Bowen Library and filter by Behavioral Health Professionals

2013 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes, U.S. Department of Agriculture (more information at https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/rural-urban-continuum-codes.aspx#.UYJuVEpZRvY)

More Information:

Population-to-provider FTE ratios are widely used for assessing health workforce capacity. Benchmarks presented in these data visualizations correspond to those outlined in federal code for health professional shortages. (More information is available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/part-5).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCCs) as “a classification scheme that distinguishes metropolitan counties by the population size of their metro area, and nonmetropolitan counties by degree of urbanization and adjacency to a metro area.” For more information on the definition of RUCCs, go to https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/rural-urban-continuum-codes/documentation/