Kotek Supports Behavioral Health Bill
(Salem, OR) -- Oregon Governor Tina Kotek supports a bill in the Legislature that would improve behavioral health treatment in the state. Kotek says currently, people are turned away because there isn't enough mental health and addiction care. Kotek's bill would spend 20-million-dollars on workforce development, five-million-dollars on scholarships, nine-million-dollars for student loan forgiveness for master-level clinicians that work in the behavioral health system for at least two years, and 14-million-dollars for grants to tribes and community providers that will retain staff.



