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California’s first-ever Surgeon General, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, spoke to the alumni of the California Health Care Foundation’s (CHCF) Health Care Leadership program.

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Shape Health Care: In Conversation with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

October 23, 2020
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP On September 24, the state of California’s first-ever Surgeon General, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, spoke to the alumni of the California Health Care Foundation’s (CHCF) Health...
Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 28, 2020
By Joanne Spetz, PhD Three of every four pharmaceutical overdose deaths in 2010 involved opioids, according to the CDC. This sobering statistic focused attention on the rapid acceleration and...
A Road Map for CIN in 2020-21

A Road Map for CIN in 2020-21

April 8, 2020
The California Improvement Network (CIN) is a learning and action network that aims to advance the Quadruple Aim by identifying and spreading better ideas for care delivery. The network is fueled by...
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)

December 4, 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...
Peer provider works with patient

State Lawmakers Eye Federal Dollars To Boost Mental Health Counseling By Peers

August 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

November 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. ...
People help each other up a mountain

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

March 9, 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

February 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...
Photo of a peer provider helps a patient with mental health issues

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

July 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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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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