To assuage the shortage of mental health clinicians desperately needed in under-resourced communities, The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation has committed $2.3 million over two years to Unity Health Care to establish The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Behavioral Health Development Fund.
This gift allows Unity to recruit and train the next generation of mental health providers, with a focus on models of care that improve outcomes and drive health equity, with the goal of meeting this critical workforce need. The program will be modeled after Unity’s hallmark family medicine and nurse practitioner residency programs. Read more.
