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Counselors’ Association Urges Administrative Fix to Unblock Hires in State Agencies
Summary
The Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association asked the Joint Committee to update EOHHS job classifications to explicitly include licensed mental health counselors, arguing the change would quickly increase billable clinical capacity without new training costs.
Boston — The Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association asked the committee Wednesday to correct administrative job descriptions so licensed mental health counselors (LMHCs) and licensed supervised mental health counselors (LSMHCs) can be hired into state behavioral health positions.
Joe Weeks, executive director of the association, told the…
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