Workforce
- The National Council for Mental Wellbeing – Center for Workforce Solutions
- Mental Health at Work Index – provides a data-driven assessment and generates strategic guidance for improvement in 10 key organizational categories that are foundational and closely linked to workforce mental health.
- State Strategies to Recruit and Retain the Behavioral Health Workforce (National Conference of State Legislatures) – Provides an overview of state strategies on recruitment and retention.
- A Look at Strategies to Address Behavioral Health Workforce Shortages: Findings from a Survey of State Medicaid Programs (KFF) – Provides an overview of how state Medicaid Programs are working to improve the workforce.
- Filling the Gaps in the Behavioral Health Workforce (Bipartisan Policy Center) – A guide that provides policy recommendations that would strengthen the role of the nonclinical workforce to support licensed professionals.
- Behavioral Health Workforce Projections, 2017-2030 (HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce) – This factsheet presents national-level supply and demand projections for select behavioral occupations from 2017 through 2030 using HRSA’s Health Workforce Simulation Model.
- Addressing Burnout in the Behavioral Health Workforce Through Organizational Strategies (SAMHSA) – This guide highlights organization-level interventions to prevent and reduce burnout among behavioral health workers.
- Behavioral Health Workforce Report (SAMHSA) – This report provides information on the number of practitioners needed to meet the behavioral health needs of the American people, and offers a foundation for a mental health system model that will address these needs.
- Building Blocks for Behavioral Health Recruitment and Retention – Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.
- Addressing Burnout in the Behavioral Health Workforce Through Organizational Strategies – SAMHSA
- A Call for National Strategy to Address the Youth Behavioral Health Workforce – The Commonwealth Fund
- Recruiting and Retaining Behavioral Health Workers in Rural America: A Toolkit for Action – University of Michigan Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center
- The Behavioral Health Workforce in Rural America: Developing a National Recruitment Strategy – University of Michigan, Center for Health and Research Transformation
- Addressing Disparities in Access and Utilization of Mental Health and Substance Use Services among Blacks and African Americans – White paper that assists the public in better understanding the health disparities that exist in the access, engagement, utilization and outcomes for Black/African Americans seeking specialty mental health and substance use treatment services.
- State Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Behavioral Health Workforce (National Academy for State Health Policy) – Report outlining strategies to increase engagement of BIPOC across the workforce.
- How to Increase Diversity in the Health Care Workforce Now (UCSF Healthforce Center) – Blog post offering recommendations for enhancing workforce diversity.
- Recruiting and Supporting a Diverse Workforce (National Library of Medicine) – Workshop findings on educating professionals to address the social determinants of health, focusing on factors that are critical for recruiting, supporting, retaining and promoting a diverse workforce.
Mental Health
- American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work
- American Clinical Social Work Association (ACSWA)
- American Group Psychotherapy Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association
- American Psychological Association
- The Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce
- Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness
- Employee Assistance Professionals Association
- Employee Assistance Society of North America (EASNA)
- HelpGuide – Help yourself to greater health and happiness.
- The Joint Commission
- Medicare Mental Health Part-D
- MHCA
- National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)
- NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc.
- National Council for Mental Wellbeing
- Tips for Supporting Employee Mental Health – May 2021
- National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Substance Use
- American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD)
- American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)
- Drug Rehab Connections
- National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers
- National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)
- National Association of State Alcohol/Drug Abuse Directors
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- NIATx: Removing Barriers to Treatment and Recovery
- Public Health Surveillance and Alcohol-Related Injuries Infographic
- Start Your Recovery
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Peer & Advocacy Resources
- Faces and Voices of Recovery
- Mental Health America
- Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program – MHSIP
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA)
- National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD)
Public Health/Health Care Administration Resources
- Accredited Online Colleges – Health Administration
- American Public Health Association
- BestColleges.com Online Master’s Programs in Public Health
- Coalition for Whole Health
- Guide to Health Care Administration Careers and Education
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & Harvard Chan School of Public Health – The Public’s Perspective of the US Public Health System
- World Health Organization: Neurology and Public Health
