b'WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE 780%In some states, as much as 80 percent of the population is without access to mental health and substance use services.The 91香蕉视频成人在线 Center for Workforce Development oversees a number of key programs at the College, including the Behavioral Health Service Corps, Community Health Workers Training Program, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI), PATHWAYS, and the Serving the Mental Health Needs of the Underserved Scholarship. The Center also regularly presents events to bring the community together for learning opportunities and works closely with academic departments to promoteother training. Across all of our programs and departments, we recruit and train talented individuals for careers in behavioral health andWe are leadership, said St. Louis. Our Workforce Development initiativescommitted to allow us to identify the best-of-the-best of these students. We recruit from within our own walls. We support students who arepreparing professionals underrepresented in the field with mentorship and professionalto address a critical development opportunities, we offer culturally focused academicneed, to fill a gap for training and place students in field sites in areas of high need,culturally responsive where they can immediately make a difference.and informed providers, Some programs, through grant funding or partnerships, and to support and provide stipends and scholarships. All programs provide somechange the systemform of culturally focused traininga unique solution to this multifaceted problem.more broadly.We are committed to preparing professionals to address a criticalDr. Gemima St. Louisneed, to fill a gap for culturally responsive and informed providers, and to support and change the system more broadly, she said.'