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

MHSA WET 2020-2025 - Plan 
MHSA WET 2020-2025 - PowerPoint

Solutions

National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet) assists health professionals in their search for jobs in rural and underserved areas throughout California. Healthcare facilities and employers may also use 3RNet to recruit and retain health professionals in rural and underserved areas

​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

Funding/Resources

Grant Funding Opportunities, HCAi (formerly OSHPD) Workforce, Training & Education (WET) Programs
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SAMHSA Workforce Development, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Articles/Papers

CA's Current and Future BH Workforce, Healthforce Center at UCSF, 2018

Removing Barriers, Expanding and Strengthening CA's Substance Use Disorder Workforce, CAADPE, October 2021

Long Waits Plague Sacramento County Mental Health Services, Sacramento Bee, May, 2021