
Healthcare shortage area
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Oct 8, 2026
Whole-Person Care: Unifying Behavioral Health and Social Care with Jaffer Traish, Chief Operating Officer at findhelp
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2:04Jaffer TraishGUEST
But we realized that many of the staff that we're helping across the country in their navigation are also looking for behavioral health resources at the same time and in the same workflow.
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2:16Jaffer TraishGUEST
And about a hundred and thirty-seven million Americans live in a federally designated mental health shortage area, HPSA, and only twenty percent or so of that need is currently being met in those areas.
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2:30Jaffer TraishGUEST
And of sixty million or more that had a mental illness in the last year, roughly half never received any treatment.
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2:38Jaffer TraishGUEST
So there's a lot of challenges that we have to overcome.