Lack of Mental Health Professionals in rural Alabama
Given what you have learned about this agency, what the agency believes are its priorities, and what you believe are its priorities, select one specific need that you will address through your to-be-developed program.b. Provide a rationale for your choice (i.e. why are you selecting this specific need as the focus of your to-be-developed program?). c. You don’t always have to go with the need ranked as #1 on the list, but you might.d. If you don’t go with the #1 need from your group, you should give a rationale for why you will address a lower-ranked need (e.g., lower hanging fruit, easy first win, special opportunity or funding option, top-ranked priority of key informant, etc.)
AGENCY: PATHS (Pediatric Access to Telemental Health Services)
NEED TO BE ADDRESSED: ue to the lack of mental health professionals willing to work in the rural area we can say instead of developing in person programs, we can utilize the technology and telehealth to develop virtual mental health educational / outreach programs.
