Your Thursday evening update on Salem news
Good evening, Salem.
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 or other credentials.
“If anybody walks the streets of Salem specifically, you can see that there’s a significant population who need behavioral health services,” Commissioner Danielle Bethell said at the meeting.
Read more about commissioners’ decisions in the update below, along with the rest of today’s news. You can catch all of our latest stories on our website anytime.
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