1. S OCIAL W ORK W ORKFORCE AND M ENTAL H EALTH S ERVICES IN O RANGE C OUNTY Anna Scheyett, MSW, PhD Associate Dean for Academic Affairs UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work

2. B ACKGROUND Social workers provide the majority of public mental health services in the nation There is a serious workforce shortage of trained mental health social workers Retirement Attrition Training

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4. B ARRIERS TO I NCREASING THE MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORK WORKFORCE Lack of jobs (P-LCSW issue) Lack of field placements for training Students cannot bill Clinical supervision time is time away from billable activities Economic uncertainty make potential field instructors unwilling to take a student

5. UNC CH S CHOOL OF S OCIAL W ORK : W HAT ARE WE DOING ? Each year, 120-140 MSWs graduate from our program Each year 45-55 students declare their concentration to be direct practice in mental health We have a total of roughly 140 active adult mental health placements and 110 child mental health placements across NC

6. UNC S CHOOL OF S OCIAL W ORK AND O RANGE C OUNTY We have a total of 68 students in 58 field placements in Orange county Of these placements, 55 are considered mental health placements We would like more students placed in strong Orange county mental health placements with good supervision

7. O THER W ORKFORCE I NITIATIVES Commission for MH/DD/SAS workforce report Focused on more than social work across levels of professional Bill to be introduced for social work tuition forgiveness with commitment to work in underserved area after graduation STEP This Task Force subcommittee proposal