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About the Mental Health Committee
The CalSWEC Board of Directors adopted a strategic plan in 2003 that outlined several new initiatives. Two of these, the Mental Health Planning and Development Initiative and the Aging Planning and Development Initiative, are designed to expand on the successful workforce and educational development activities which have taken place over the past 12 years in the child welfare arena under the auspices of CalSWEC.
In July 2003, the California Wellness Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation awarded grants to CalSWEC to implement the Mental Health Initiative.
Goal
This initiative has a primary goal of developing a culturally competent corps of trained providers through the creation of a continuum of social work education and training programs, to respond to the mental health workforce crisis in California, and will create a partnership between the education and mental health provider community to achieve this goal.
Objectives
The initiative has three major objectives:
1. The development of core skills and competencies in mental health practice that will guide the curriculum in Schools/Departments of Social Work in California to produce a cadre of MSW level graduates for employment in the public mental health arena;
2. The creation of a partnership between the education and provider community for the planning, coordination, and development of Mental Health Workforce Development Projects which recruit and deploy more social workers into the mental health system; and
3. A collaborative effort to seek funding from private and public resources to support the Implementation of a training and educational continuum for social workers in public mental health services.
Activities
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