More than 10% of staff working for the Federal Agency for Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services have reported this month. Government-wide reduction Elon Musk’s government efficiency recently hired federal workers ordered, or DogeTask Force.
The cuts amount to around 100 probation workers, with multiple current and former federal health officials telling CBS News that they have recently hired directors at Samhsa’s regional office to staff working on related projects. It has impacted several teams around the department all the way through. 988 Hotline For those facing a mental health crisis overseen by agents.
SAMHSA employees said a quarter of the team was lost last month on the agency’s communications team aimed to raise awareness about the 988 hotline.
“The people on the federal government staff who are overseeing and striving to raise awareness of 988 nationwide are those who are gone,” said employee Stacey Palosky. Posted On LinkedIn.
Parosky declined to request an interview, referring to comments to Samsa and the Ministry of Health and Human Services. A department spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The authorities, like many other health agencies that manage subsidies and external contracts significantly, predicted the impact of the cuts, but they predicted they would not be felt anytime soon. Instead, they said the reductions will lead to long-term erosion of Samhsa’s ability to monitor, slowing down grant approvals and downsizing updates to guidance.
Much of the agency’s work consists of awarding and tracking taxpayer dollars awarded to drug addiction and mental health treatment programs.
This includes funding for call centers that make up the 988 hotlines run primarily by state and local governments across the country, and the funding for the nonprofits that manage them.
Federal health officials fear that agency cuts will signal a morale revival that will plummet under the first Trump administration, followed by a sharp cut in the size of the agency.
Samhsa’s workforce fell to the lowest of 376 employees in 2020. record It was tallied by public service partnerships from a maximum of 553 in 2014.
At the same time, numerous surveys of employee satisfaction at SAMHSA have dropped to a record low of 27 out of 100, well below the federal agency average.
Employee satisfaction scores began to recover in 2020, reaching a record high of 81.5 by 2023, surpassing the average. The size of the Samhsa workforce has also increased to 633 by 2023.
Most federal health agencies have faced shootings in recent weeks, and are primarily carried over by the end of one of them. letter From HHSOR, which was the result of his contract being cut off this weekend.
Institutions that will lose contractors and recently employed workers include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Management for Strategic Preparation and Response, Management for Children Includes: And family.
Some agents initially planned for sudden cuts. Exemptions For many people Health Organization WorkersIncludes Indian Health Services.
It is not clear how many total workers were cut from the HHS in the end.
In Samhsa, officials remaining at the agency said the shooting would be irritated and would cancel employment that was employed in the necessary position.
One health official warned of repeated repetitions from the “loop of fate” that plagued the agencies in the first Trump administration.
Some staff remained because they were committed to public service, officials said. However, many others remained as they were troubled by their work at Samsa because they were unable to be hired in personal circumstances or elsewhere.
“It took me two or three years to guide the loop of fate last time. This time I did it less than a month,” the official said.
