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For five years, Mike and Karen lived in the woods beside the Siler City Walmart. They searched through dumpsters for food and clothing. Swallowing their pride, they panhandled, asking for…

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A genetic scoring of schizophrenia-related genes in the placenta can predict the size of a baby’s brain at birth and its rate of cognitive development, which, dependent on other factors,…

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Food insecurity affects approximately 12% of Americans everyday. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic this number has increased drastically and has heavily impacted vulnerable populations who are food insecure….

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Access to safe and affordable housing continues to be one of the most pressing public health and public safety concerns. Over 500,000 people in the United States are homeless each…

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The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Director, Dr. John GIlmore, talks to WCHL about fighting mental health stigma and the Center’s efforts to help individuals with schizophrenia. Psychotic…

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Elizabeth “Beth” Rossi, director of quality management and clinics manager for the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health was accepted into the 2021 Advanced Leader Academy along with…

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October 1, 2020 For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two clinical scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year….

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John Gilmore, MD, director of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, vice chair, Research and Eure Professor in the Department of Psychiatry was featured in this April…

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