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Illinois has a shortage of mental health workers. What can help?
Illinois has a shortage of mental health workers. What can help?

Illinois has a shortage of mental health workers. What can help?

According to state data, over 4.8 million residents in Illinois live in an area deemed a “mental health professional shortage area.”

   

One of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s policy priorities is to open community mental health clinics, but they could only be successful if fully staffed. So what’s needed to address the mental health worker shortage?

Reset learns what’s needed to prevent worker burnout and to support people in the front line work of helping people with trauma.

GUESTS: Dr. Neha Gupta, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Division Chief of Integrated Behavioral Health, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Edwin Martinez, co-founder, executive director, Centro Sanar 

Jen McGowan Tomke, COO, NAMI Chicago

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