Category: CRMH

HEELS 2 Transition addresses topics such as making friends, finding a job, and moving away from home, while also exploring broader themes such as self-management, safety skills, career development, life skills, and mental health. The curriculum was developed with input from experts, parents, and the participants themselves.

The Department of Health Sciences is pleased to announce 2026 U.S. News & World Report program rankings across multiple divisions. Four programs eligible received top 10 placements on the national list, and one program improved position from last year’s rankings. #2 – Doctor of Audiology #5 – Occupational Therapy #7...

“Fear, disconnection, frustration, anger — these are the things that patients feel when they can’t find their call bell and can’t ask for help,” said Melissa Hall ‘27, a clinical rehabilitation and mental health counseling student. “As a team from medicine, biomedical engineering, speech-language pathology and mental health counseling, we...

Noah Samples came to UNC after working as an EMT and is now a second-year student in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program within the Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (CRMH) division. Set to graduate this May, his path to counseling wasn’t straightforward. While working as an EMT, he...

When Dara Chan first joined the Higher Education, Employment, and Living Success (HEELS) 2 Transition (H2T) project toward building an inclusive post-secondary educational program at UNC in 2017, she did not expect the program to grow as expediently as it did. Beginning with discretionary funding from Oak Foundation in 2016,...

HEELS Prep, an interdisciplinary collaboration designed to support young adults with intellectual disabilities, concluded seven weeks of online programming in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through weekly virtual group classes and individual coaching sessions, HEELS Prep addressed key areas of the transition to adulthood, including self-management, life skills, career development,...