Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology

As Massachusetts is working to enroll residents into the Commonwealth’s new low-cost health plans and is offering the newly-insured something equally critical: a health care home – a place where they can access a team of caregivers who come to know them and their health care needs, the MSPP is working to solve the shortage of qualified healthcare providers who deliver behavioral health care services. We worked to sharpen their public private partnership message on why cultural and linguistic competence among behavioral health providers is of great significance. A new program will focus on developing a pipeline of competent providers committed to practice in the Massachusetts public sector. Further, we carried out a strategy to appoint a faculty member to The Health Disparities Council, so mental health issues would be among the concerns addressed by this historic group.