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This webinar shares content from the first seminar focused on what it means – and takes – to integrate behavioral health in primary care settings.

Mission Integration: Behavioral Health Strategies to Achieve Whole Health (webinar)

Dec. 04, 2019
L.A. Care Health Plan and Healthforce Center at UCSF are partnering together to host a four-part seminar series focused on providing topical content to clinic leaders in the Los Angeles county safety...
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State Lawmakers Eye Federal Dollars To Boost Mental Health Counseling By Peers

Aug. 19, 2019
Peer providers use their own life experiences with addiction or mental illness to help others and could play a key role in helping California meet its behavioral health care needs. Now, a California...
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP speaks at Kaiser Permanente Health policy meeting

Strengthening America's Mental Health Workforce: Sunita Mutha's Keynote Address at Kaiser Permanente Forum

Nov. 14, 2018
On September 27, the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy hosted a forum, Strengthening America’s Mental Health Workforce, at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Total Health in Washington, D.C. ...
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How One Man’s Road to Recovery Has Helped Others with Mental Illness

May. 30, 2018
By Lisel Blash, MPA After losing his job in the corporate sector, Josh was homeless and in and out of jail for several years. “Until I had my diagnosis; I thought everyone heard voices,” he said. The...
Behavioral health worker comforts elderly man

Forecast Shows Deepening Shortage Of Mental Health Professionals In California

Mar. 09, 2018
by Brian Rinker (SOURCE: California Healthline) A report forecasts a substantial shortage of qualified and diverse behavioral health professionals in California within 10 years, leaving minority...

Media Roundup: California’s Looming Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage

Feb. 21, 2018
Healthforce Center’s latest report analyzes and projects future needs related to California’s behavioral health workforce and forecasts a shortage of qualified and diverse behavioral health...
A peer provider helps a patient with mental health issues

People With Mental Illness Are Finding Work Helping Peers (NPR)

Jul. 11, 2017
A new NPR story about peer support for people with mental illness in Texas, features Joanne Spetz, Healthforce Center's associate director of research. Peer providers are people with lived experience...
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Health Leader Takes on Opioid Crisis

Apr. 19, 2017
Candy Stockton, MD, a fellow in our 15th cohort of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program, uses the lessons learned and network of colleagues from our leadership development program to address one...

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Healthforce Alum Recruits Young People to Diversify Health Care Workforce

Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, MD is an emergency department physician who's on a mission to ensure that health care providers reflect the racial and gender diversity of the patients they serve. Her experience as a fellow in the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program, proved integral to the success of two nonprofit organizations that she founded...

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