Tunnel Vision

We’re now persistently faced with workforce talent gaps. For mental health therapists, the estimates vary. SAMHSA estimates a shortage of over one million therapists, and HRSA estimates a shortage of 238,000 by 2025 (see National Projections of Supply and Demand for Selected Behavioral Health Practitioners: 2013-2025 - HRSA and Available Workforce Information and Federal Actions to Help Recruit and Retain Providers - US GAO). The challenges of workforce and talent management in the health and human service field continue to threaten provider organization sustainability. But the workforce issue is not monolithic—with very different challenges in finding prescribers, licensed . . .