Public Mental Health Workers’ Policy Recommendations to Address the Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage

Key Points

• The aim is to gather input from public mental health workers on how to increase the behavioral health workforce.
• Qualitative interviews with public mental health workers
• Collection of recommendations for policy changes
• Analysis of themes from responses
• Suggestions for improving workforce recruitment and retention.
• Identification of key barriers to entering the behavioral health field.
• Recommendations for enhancing training and support for new workers.