Workforce Shortages: Attacking The Problem On Many Levels

I read with interest a recent on-stage conference interview with Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), who said that improving the mental health workforce shortage is one of her agency’s top priorities (see How SAMHSA Is Tackling the Mental Health Workforce Shortage). She noted that the U.S. will be short about 31,000 full-time equivalent mental health practitioners by 2025. The picture is particularly grim for some rural parts of the country and states. For example, in Texas, 98% of the 254 counties in the state are . . .