Report outlines ways to expand, diversify Massachusetts’ workforce

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts engaged Manatt Health to create a report that identifies ways to maintain, expand, and increase diversity in Massachusetts’ behavioral health workforce.
The resulting 62-page document entitled, “Creating a Robust, Diverse, and Resilient Behavioral Health Workforce in Massachusetts,” offers seven recommendations for the Commonwealth and other stakeholders to make policy, programmatic, and budgetary changes to reach that goal.
The process involved Manatt Health conducting interviews with experts including provider association representatives, academics, and state officials with experience in behavioral health, workforce development, and/or diversity, equity, and inclusion issues.
During these interviews...