As the pandemic rushed through all our lives — causing ripples for some, overwhelming waves for others — the demand for mental health services has skyrocketed, and the number of mental health professionals working in the field dropped, leading to longer wait times and less availability.
CLEVELAND — Rachel Keely is a woman strong beyond words. In just the last five years, she lost her mother, her father, her brother and her 15-year-old son Hayden.Sharing Hayden’s story to help save other lives has, in turn, helped Keely. But what helps the most, she said, is therapy.
“Yet at the same time, we don’t have more people to provide more capacity,” said Teresa Lampl, CEO at the Ohio Council of Behavioral Health & Family Services Providers.Social workers require a Master’s degree and graduate with an average of $78,000 in debt, just to start a job that pays roughly $45,000 a year.But for the people in this field, it’s a passion, a calling, a mission.
Mihaela Burtea Pascu is the director of psychiatry services at Signature Health, a nonprofit federally qualified health center with locations in Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, and Lake Counties.And while the need for services is up, Mihaela said recruitment and retention can be a struggle. “All the discussion around mental health is giving people more confidence to seek services,” she said.For Rachel — a daughter, a sister, mother going through the worse losses imaginable — talking through that grief has made all the difference.
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