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Presented at the 18th Annual Research Conference

Building a National Strategic Plan for Workforce Development

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Session Number: 15 Room: Salon A

Presentation Type: symposium

Chair: Carol MacKinnon-Lewis Discussant:

Synopsis: There is a growing consensus that improvements in quality of care will not be achieved without systematically addressing a range of problems related to the behavioral health workforce. These problems include severe shortages of qualified providers, driven in part by difficulties in both recruitment and retention. There are also substantial concerns about the education and training provided to members of the workforce: major segments of the workforce receive no substantive training; graduate and residency education programs have not kept pace with dramatic changes in the fields approach to service delivery; continuing education is based almost exclusively on ineffective lecture models; and consumers and families receive little educational support despite their major role in caring for themselves and others. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is supporting the development of a National Strategic Plan on Workforce Development in Behavioral Health. Sybil Goldman, Senior Advisor on Children at SAMHSA will describe the objectives of this initiative and place them in the context of SAMHSA's efforts to foster the transformation of care as envisioned in the report of the President's New Freedom Commission. Development of the National Strategic Plan is being coordinated by The Annapolis Coalition, which is an organization dedicated to improving behavioral health workforce education and development. The Coalition's Co-Chair, Michael Hoge, will provide an overview of workforce planning efforts, to date, and describe the process that will lead to the development of the National Strategic Plan. Larke N. Huang, a member of the President's New Freedom Commission and Senior Consultant to The Annapolis Coalition, will discuss the workforce crisis in children's behavioral health and present preliminary ideas on the essential elements of the National Strategic Plan as it pertains to caring for children and their families. Randolph Muck, Team Leader for Adolescent Treatment in SAMHSAís Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) will present information on the workforce issues specific to treatment for adolescents with substance use disorders and discuss possibilities for improvement within behavioral health in the screening, identification and treatment of these youth.

Date: Monday, March 7, 2005

Session Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Building a National Strategic Plan for Workforce Development

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Presenting: Sybil Goldman; Michael Hoge; Larke Huang; Randy Muck

All Authors for this paper: Sybil Goldman; Michael Hoge; Larke Huang; Randy Muck

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: There is a growing consensus that improvements in quality of care will not be achieved without systematically addressing a range of problems related to the behavioral health workforce. These problems include severe shortages of qualified providers, driven in part by difficulties in both recruitment and retention. There are also substantial concerns about the education and training provided to members of the workforce: major segments of the workforce receive no substantive training; graduate and residency education programs have not kept pace with dramatic changes in the fields approach to service delivery; continuing education is based almost exclusively on ineffective lecture models; and consumers and families receive little educational support despite their major role in caring for themselves and others. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is supporting the development of a National Strategic Plan on Workforce Development in Behavioral Health.