In Harm's Way Pt. 3: Not Enough Counselors
The story was originally published in KALW with support from our 2023 Center for Health Journalism California Health Equity Fellowship.
Shannon Robertson, a supervisor at HealthRight360, was once a patient at Walden House
Courtesy Of Shannon Robertson
This story aired on the July 27, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents.
In the third installment of the series, 'In Harm's Way: Workers Battle the Overdose Crisis', we take a look at the national staffing crisis among substance use disorder counsellors across the state, and spend time with a supervisor who started out as a group counsellor making $19 dollars an hour.
For a war on drugs that has proven to have not worked, that funding could very well have been used to pay counsellors more, which would get more counsellors