UPDATE: Marion County commissioners approve state funds for mental health providers
Update, June 21
The Marion County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday unanimously approved nearly $2 million from the state for recruiting behavioral health providers to the Salem area.
The grant includes $1.4 million for workforce incentives and $578,000 to provide clinical supervision to behavioral health workers.
The funding comes from a workforce initiative the state legislature created in 2021 to boost local recruitment and retention of behavioral health providers with associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral degrees…
