Behavioral Health Workforce Support: Current State and Future Opportunities
This summer, the Northwest ATTC is hosting a 3-part series on Innovative and Successful Approaches to Staff Recruitment and Retention.
Part 1: Behavioral Health Workforce Support: Current State and Future Opportunities
In this session, Thomas Bialozor, MSW, LCSW, EMBA, Director of Behavioral Health at Care Oregon, will describe trends related to recent challenges facing the behavioral health workforce, including the COVID-19 pandemic, dynamics of the working environment, labor market challenges, and associated data. He’ll also talk about different opportunities for interventions to address the behavioral health workforce crisis at the state/funder, program/organizational, and individual levels. Participants will leave this session able to synthesize relevant recommendations and apply their own ideas for supporting the behavioral health workforce with practical applications for action.
