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Another opportunity to testify next week! House Bill 6483, AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE REGARDING THE IMPENDING SHORTAGE IN THE PSYCHIATRY WORKFORCE, also put forward by Rep. Cristin McCarthy-Vahey (D-Fairfield), seeks to start working on the growing national shortage of psychiatrists before the full impact is felt. (Nationally the US is expecting a shortage of 50,000-90,000 psychiatrists in the next 8 years.) <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
While psych APRNs can help, they are also in short supply. Possible solutions include incentivizing more people to go into the field, telepsychiatry, expanding other providers' scope of work, and\/or reducing dependency on psychopharmacology. Since it is likely that there will be a lot of debate around how best to address the issue, we support beginning discussions early. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Public Health Committee is holding a public hearing on the bill on Friday 2\/17 to determine whether the public feels this is an important issue and whether a task force will help. If you would like to testify, you can: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Speak in person at the Public Health Committee Public Hearing on Friday, February 17th at 10:30am in room 1D at the Legislative Office Building, Hartford. You will have 3 minutes to testify and can also provide your comments in writing. Be sure to practice so you can stay within the time frame! Your written comments can be longer. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Here's a template for offering testimony before the Public Health Committee: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Testimony before the Public Health Committee<\/p>\n
February 10, 2017<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Good morning, Senator Gerratana, Senator Somers, Representative Steinberg, and esteemed members of the Public Health Committee: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
My name is ____________ and I am a resident of _______________. I am here to speak on HB 6483, An Act Establishing a Task Force Regarding the Impending Shortage in the Psychiatry Workforce. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
[Then explain whether you are in favor of the bill or against it, and why. Provide any details, whether personal, professional, or research-based, that support your views.] <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I urge you to support important services for people with mental health and\/or sustance use disorders. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Thank you for considering my perspective. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Email your written comments prior to the hearing to PHtestimony@cga.ct.gov. Copies will be distributed to the committee members and also posted online. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another opportunity to testify next week! House Bill 6483, AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE REGARDING THE IMPENDING SHORTAGE IN THE…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Howard Buksbaum","author_link":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/author\/howardberrycreativellc-com\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalystct.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}