Lindsay Gilinsky, pictured in her office at Clatsop Behavioral Health, said an apprenticeship program that allowed her to earn advanced mental health credentials “completely changed my life.”Courtesy Lindsay Gilinsky
Oregon lawmakers allocated more than $85 million this year to help expand mental health and substance abuse programs across the state. The funding will enable a Klamath Falls provider to open a 16-bed facility for people with serious mental illnesses, an Ontario recovery center to expand its inpatient substance abuse program and a Eugene facility to add 33 new detox and residential treatment beds.
But those providers still have to find enough workers to staff those beds.
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