10/09/2026
World Mental Health Day is October 10.
The distance between the number of people who need behavioral health care and the number of clinicians available to provide it is the hardest staffing problem we work on, and it has been for most of our 30 years.
What has changed is who is closing it. Psychiatric NPs now carry a large share of outpatient behavioral health, and the programs holding their panels together are the ones that built multidisciplinary teams rather than waiting on a single psychiatrist hire.
To everyone doing this work: thank you.