Workforce Transformation in Behavioral Health
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Congressional A
Room: Congressional A
ABOUT THIS SESSION
Session Description: There are longstanding concerns about the inadequate size and preparation of the behavioral health workforce. This presentation will review a series of paradoxes about the field’s current approach to workforce issues. A strategic framework, comprised of a series of goals and objectives, will be presented to guide efforts at transforming the behavioral health workforce. Innovative workforce development initiatives will be described, followed by participant discussion of the challenges they face and their own workforce initiatives.
Learning Objectives - Participants will be able to:
1. Identify at least three paradoxes of current approaches to workforce issues in behavioral health
2. Identify at least three strategies for transforming the behavioral health workforce
3. Describe at least two innovative workforce development initiatives
SESSION PRESENTER
Michael Hoge, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of Clinical Training in Psychology within the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Director of Yale Behavioral Health, which provides a broad array of mental health and addiction services to adolescents and adults. Dr. Hoge is a founding member of The Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce, which initiated a national, inter-professional effort to improve the recruitment, retention and training of individuals who provide prevention and treatment services for persons with mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Michael serves as the Senior Science and Policy Advisor for the Coalition and was the senior editor of the national Action Plan on Behavioral Health Workforce Development, which was commissioned by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He has consulted on behavioral health workforce issues to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the Institute of Medicine, and many states and organizations. Currently he directs the Yale Group on Workforce Development, which includes a national Program on Supervision in health and human services.
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Phone: (202) 673-2200
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TTY: (202) 673-7500
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