Policy Recommendations for Coordinated and Sustainable Growth of the Behavioral Health Workforce
本文指出行为健康服务需求远超现有劳动力供给，且缺口将持续扩大；现有扩张措施（如任务分担给非专业提供者）复制了低工资、高负荷等老问题，并提出兼顾公平工资、劳动保护和严格培训的政策建议。
Policy Points Demand for behavioral health services outpaces the capacity of the existing workforce, and the unmet need for behavioral health services is expected to grow. This paper summarizes research and policy evidence demonstrating that the long-standing challenges that impede behavioral health workforce development and retention (i.e., low wages, high workloads, training gaps) are being replicated by growing efforts to expand the workforce through task-sharing delivery to nonspecialist behavioral health providers (e.g., peer specialists, promotores de salud). In this paper, we describe policy opportunities to sustain behavioral health workforce growth to meet demand while supporting fair wages, labor protections, and rigorous training.