#21 Addressing the Behavioral Health Wage Gap: A Conversation with NAMI

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Bouneff, Executive Director of the Oregon Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), discusses:</span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What does NAMI do?; </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Examples of the education NAMI provides free of charge;</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">NAMI’s current proposal for a bill in the 2022 short session focusing on addressing wage gaps for those working in the behavioral health field;</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why we need to focus on closing the wage gap and providing more services concurrently – at the same time – instead of consecutively; </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How guidelines and standardization can be incorporated into the behavioral health field to support service availability throughout Oregon for consumers;  </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">NAMI’s partnership with Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trainings; and </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to contact NAMI:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Phone: 503-230-8009 or 800-343-6264 (not a crisis line). </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Website:</span> <a href= "https://namior.org"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://namior.org</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></li> </ul> </ul> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information about the intersection between criminal jus