Plan or conduct programs to prevent substance abuse or improve community health or counseling services.

“Plan or conduct programs to prevent substance abuse or improve community health or counseling services.” is a supplemental task performed by Mental Health Counselors. Among the occupation's 27 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#25 most important). About 82% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Develop public or community health programs. in Thinking Creatively

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment. · importance 5.0
• Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships. · importance 4.9
• Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes. · importance 4.8
• Assess patients for risk of suicide attempts. · importance 4.8
• Fill out and maintain client-related paperwork, including federal- and state-mandated forms, client diagnostic records, and progress notes. · importance 4.8
• Perform crisis interventions to help ensure the safety of the patients and others. · importance 4.8
• Guide clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their problems. · importance 4.8
• Perform crisis interventions with clients. · importance 4.8
• Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports. · importance 4.7
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge. · importance 4.6
• Collect information about clients through interviews, observation, or tests. · importance 4.5
• Modify treatment activities or approaches as needed to comply with changes in clients' status. · importance 4.5
• Evaluate the effectiveness of counseling programs on clients' progress in resolving identified problems and moving towards defined objectives. · importance 4.4
• Evaluate clients' physical or mental condition, based on review of client information. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Mental Health Counselors page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-1612,
  title  = {Plan or conduct programs to prevent substance abuse or improve community health or counseling services.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-1612}
}