The CYBHI’s Broad Behavioral Health Workforce Capacity efforts seek to improve young people’s access to high-quality behavioral health services. This is accomplished by building and expanding a culturally and linguistically competent workforce through education and training. Through investments in scholarships, loan repayments, recruitment and expansive training, the CYBHI initiative helps fill professional gaps while creating a workforce that can better understand and serve the needs of California’s children, youth, and families.
Establish earn-and-learn models and training for the workforce that serves justice- and system-involved youth, building the behavioral health workforce pipeline and increasing the diversity and the overall number of behavioral health providers serving children and youth.
Improve access to and quality of behavioral health services by increasing the number of behavioral health professionals and evolving their training to better meet children and youth needs.
