Front cover of the 2020-2025 Mental Health Services Act Workforce Education and Training Five-Year Plan pdf

MHSA WET Plan 2020-2025 

Solutions

Meeting the Demand for Health, CA Future Health Workforce Commission.

Powerhouse forum takes on critical challenges in mental health workforce, Includes links to the presentations  Steinberg Institute, 2018  

The Psychiatric Shortage - Causes & Solutions, National Council for Behavioral Health, 2017

Legislation to Increase Training of General Practitioners:  San Diego Tribune, Signed into law in November, 2017,  "...The goal of AB 1340 is to give [primary care] providers the tools they need to recognize the symptoms of common mental health conditions, and provide appropriate treatment or referrals...."

Seeking solutions for behavioral health care shortage:  Modern Healthcare 2017 

MH/BH Workforce

Severe Shortage

California’s Behavioral Health Services
Workforce Is Inadequate for Older Adults, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research 2019 

Where Are The Psychiatrists? Amador County And Rural California Hit Hardest By Physician Shortage, CapRadio 8/18

CA's Current & Future Behavioral Health Workforce, Healthforce Center at UCSF, 2/18
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Shortage of Mental Health Care Professionals in CA, Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts, December 2016
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Mental Health Health Professional Shortage Areas in California, Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development Atlas

California's Behavioral Health Workforce, Current & Future, 2018:  The Healthforce Center at UCSF is currently providing support to the California Future Health Workforce Commission as the Commission develops recommendations and a master plan for ensuring an adequate health workforce to meet demand for services now and in the future. 

Forecast Shows Deepening Shortage of Mental Health Professionals in California, California Healthline 2018

Resources

Grant Funding Opportunities, OSHPD Workforce, Training & Education (WET) Programs
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SAMHSA Workforce Development, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development - OSHPD administers programs designed to increase access to healthcare to underserved populations and provide a culturally competent healthcare workforce. Specifically, OSHPD

• Encourages demographically underrepresented groups to pursue healthcare careers
• incentivizes primary care and mental health professionals to work in underserved communities
• Evaluates new and expanded roles for health professionals and new health delivery alternatives
• Designates health professional shortage areas
• Serves as the state’s central repository of health education and workforce data.

OSHPD awards scholarships and loan repayments to aspiring health professionals and graduate students who agree to provide direct patient care in medically under-served areas for one to four years. OSHPD serves as California’s Primary Care Office supporting the state’s healthcare workforce through pipeline development, training and placement, financial incentives, systems redesign, and research and policy... link to website

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MHSA Workforce Education and Training (WET) Programs, OSHPD