HB624:

Behavioral health safety net workforce needs; DBHDS to develop strategy to address, report.

Bill Summary:

Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental
Services; work group; strategies to meet behavioral health safety
net workforce needs; report. Directs the Department of Behavioral
Health and Developmental Services to establish a work group, which
shall include representatives of the Department of Health Professions,
the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards, the Virginia
Area Health Education Centers Program and regional area health education
centers, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council
of Higher Education for Virginia, and other relevant stakeholders,
to develop a strategy to address the behavioral health safety net
workforce shortage in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the work
group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and
the General Assembly by November 1, 2022.