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Research & Insights
Independent field research on the coordination failures inside human services — the behavioral health workforce, the handoffs at reentry, and the systems people fall through.
These publications are independent research syntheses built from federal data (HRSA, ACF, SAMHSA), peer-reviewed literature, and practitioner field study. They describe the problem on its own terms and are published without a product pitch.
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Policy BriefHBMR-2026-001 · v1.0
The Frontline Crisis: A Data-Driven Analysis of the Behavioral Health Workforce Collapse
137 million Americans live in Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA). This brief traces how workforce collapse, caseworker turnover economics, secondary traumatic stress among peer support specialists, and unmanageable caseloads converge into a self-reinforcing cycle that fails both frontline workers and the people they serve.
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