Workforce Solutions Partnerships: Call to Action to Build a Sustainable Behavioral Health Workforce
March 17, 2025
The Workforce Solutions Partnership, a collaboration of The National Council for Mental Wellbeing, The College for Behavioral Health Leadership, and Health Management Associates has worked since 2021 to create both short and long-term solutions addressing the behavioral health workforce crisis. In this whitepaper, we issue a Call to Action to partners across all sectors to join us in this effort to drive pervasive change and ensure the future of behavioral health care. We need you to help us create and define the future of the workforce and envision a new system of care. This paper outlines the problem and highlights the efforts developed by our partnership, and mechanisms that can help to address the problem.