Budget Amendment ID: FY2024-S3-418-R1

Redraft EHS 418

Mental Health Workforce Pipeline

Mr. Crighton, Ms. Rausch, Ms. Gobi, Mr. Gomez, Ms. Miranda, Messrs. O'Connor, Lewis, Collins and Brady and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4513-2020, by adding the following words:- “; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for a pilot pipeline program to establish a culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse mental health worker pipeline between acute care hospitals and freestanding psychiatric facilities and local colleges; provided further, that the department shall administer the program in consultation with Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, Inc.; provided further, that not later than April 1, 2024, the department shall submit a report to the joint committee on higher education, the joint committee on mental health, substance use and recovery and the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing: (1) a list of the partners in the pilot; (2) available demographic and geographic profile information of the students served in the program; (3) a summary of post-program employment or continuing education of participating students; and (4) any budgetary recommendations on ways to further expand the pilot program".