{"id":6072,"date":"2022-01-21T23:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2022-01-24T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:29:40","slug":"behavioral-health-workforce-shortages-may-be-attributed-to-availability-of-higher-wage-jobs-in-other-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2022\/01\/21\/behavioral-health-workforce-shortages-may-be-attributed-to-availability-of-higher-wage-jobs-in-other-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavioral health workforce shortages may be attributed to availability of higher wage jobs in other industries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6057\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-24-at-11.34.36-AM-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-24-at-11.34.36-AM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-24-at-11.34.36-AM-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-24-at-11.34.36-AM-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-24-at-11.34.36-AM.png 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Boosting the behavioral health workforce is cited as one of four key ways lawmakers want to improve Washington\u2019s mental health system, according to the latest installment of the The Mental Health Project at the Seattle Times. UW CHWS Sr. Deputy Director Sue Skillman addresses this workforce shortage and notes that some staff are leaving because they\u2019re overworked, burned out, or retiring; but many are finding jobs with higher pay. Community-based behavioral health care salaries in Washington are $20,000-$35,000 less than those offered by providers who see more patients with commercial insurance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/mental-health\/four-ways-lawmakers-want-to-improve-washingtons-mental-health-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boosting the behavioral health workforce is cited as one of four key ways lawmakers want to improve Washington\u2019s mental health system, according to the latest installment of the The Mental Health Project at the Seattle Times. UW CHWS Sr. Deputy Director Sue Skillman addresses this workforce shortage and notes that some staff are leaving because [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}