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Employment Trends in the U.S. Behavioral Health Workforce through the Lens of Family and Household Characteristics

Published: 2025-09-01
Updated: 2025-09-25

Project Description

Family and household characteristics are identified as factors that affect workforce participation. This study will identify trends in behavioral health workforce employment status (i.e., full-time, part-time, not employed) by occupation, employment setting, geographic location, educational attainment, age, race/ethnicity, and sex, then examine how family and household-level characteristics predict employment status.

Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy

Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CB# 7590

725 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590

BHWorkforce@unc.edu

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This project is supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U81HP46529‐01‐01 Cooperative Agreement for a Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies for $1,121,875. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by SAMHSA, HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.