I have worked for profit and not for profit agencies over  the past 30 years. Most and I say most of the providers had set thier mission and goals  to provide servcies that would benifit the population they selected. Now I am unemployed because of lack of education, due to over the years I had directed, QA program to ensure that the staff had the KSA's to provide the best servcies.  I would have hope that the regulatory would have offered exsisting agencies insentives the EDU's from  thier community colleges and universities to train thier employees for a degree specified in the program  changes such as QMHP, PPQMHP with a specified time frame, but no the governbody had not taken individual(client) and the  personnel inconsideration; and now good dedicated, experianced workers are out of work and the individual's they serve our affected(will be). In the 90's  North Carolina offered such a program for those agencies who wanted and needed to follow the ever so human service demands with change. So, no I an many will be unemployed and I would hope they other will futher thier education a 2-5 year process and now current mental health professionial are going to be over taxed and this will affect the clients and force providers(private) to fold however if the underline goal is weed out strong verse not so strong agencies/companies well this will do it.

The changes to the regulation and standards are always needed and appreciated, but somewhere alone the way we have forgotten the underpaid, undertrained professional and the individuals they sevre "The Human Factor"

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