Our Mission

The mission of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health is to promote the recovery of persons with mental illness in North Carolina through evidence-based and cost-effective prevention, treatment, training, research and community education.

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COVID-19 Update: Our Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health clinics are now providing virtual visits in place of in-person visits.  Our clinic doors are closed, but we are answering your calls at our usual clinic numbers and will give you guidance when you call about how we are moving forward with continuing your care. (Updated March 24, 2020).

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  Coronavirus takes a toll. Here’s how to rev up your immune system for the challenge

  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 8 article in the News and Observer.    

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  UNC Farm at Penny Lane receives affordable housing funding from Chatham County’s Board of Commissioners.

  UNC Farm at Penny Lane is one of three organizations to receive affordable housing funding from Chatham County’s Board of Commissioners. Read more at Chapelboro.Com      

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  ‘A sense of self-expression’: Brushes with Life Arts Program uses art to relieve stress

  Five years ago, artist and author Jay Quinn joined the Brushes with Life Arts Program after hearing about it from his psychiatrist. He had just moved to Chapel Hill from South Florida and decided to reinvest in his artistic pursuits, including representational acrylic and mixed media works with text incorporation. Read more in the Daily … Continued