by Leighton Huey, MD Secretary/Treasurer and Member, Board of Directors, Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce Associate Dean, Professor of Psychiatry, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Over the past many years, the Annapolis Coalition has done important work addressing the frontline behavioral health workforce, primarily focusing on this important group of workers as “neglected”
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Overdose deaths grow…and grow
by Michael T. Flaherty, Ph.D., Chair, Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce [email protected] Despite increased funding for services, increased access to medication assisted treatment, and ever-growing community efforts into harm reduction practices, drug overdoses in the U.S. were estimated to be 100,306 in the 12-month period ending April 2021, a record high (1).
Continue Reading.National Council, HMA prepare recommendations for workforce crisis
The National Council for Mental Wellbeing, in collaboration with Health Management Associates (HMA), has prepared a series of three issue briefs to offer immediate actions states and others can take to expand current capacity and build a more stable future mental health and substance use treatment workforce. The first brief (released in January 2022) Behavioral Health
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