Paige Nuebel, Author at UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health

PBS featured UNC PAWS’ partner AlignCare and its mission to assist owners struggling with rising veterinary costs.

Anosognosia, the psychological term for a “lack of insight,” manifests in an inability to understand that you have symptoms of mental illness. Throughout my mental health journey, I have come to understand that the gift of insight is a powerful one — and it is an ability that many of us take for granted before …

With $100,000 in funding from UnitedHealthcare and support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars, and many other community partners and stake holders the Farm at Penny Lane will be unveiling a new mobile food unit. The mobile food unit will increase nutritious foods to North Carolinians impacted by housing insecurity, homelessness and chronic health …

The UNC School of Social Work will be partnering with the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health in a new three year, NIMH grant funded study to help to design and test a new CBT-focused intervention that, if successful, could make a larger impact by targeting individuals with serious mental illness before they …

A week before Christmas a HomeLink mother received a gift. Furniture for an apartment that had none. Prior to November, she had been homeless until the Orange County’s Rapid Rehousing program found her and her children an apartment in Durham, NC. When the team at UNC CECMH HomeLink discovered her family had no beds to …

The North Carolina Clozapine Network is excited to announce that our parent organization, UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, has recently become a Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Hub. The NCCN will be the first program hosted via this new Project ECHO® Hub. We plan to launch our inaugural Project ECHO® …

It’s 9:33 a.m. on a chilly October Monday, and a line of vehicles snakes through a parking lot, waiting for Pittsboro’s CORA Food Pantry to open at 10 a.m. Nearby, four UNC School of Nursing students and Associate Professor Jean Davison are putting up a tent and unpacking supplies for a mobile health clinic. The …

Content warning: This article contains mention of suicide and self-harm. September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and community members and organizations throughout Orange County are promoting awareness and educating residents. Thava Mahadevan, director of operations for the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, said the community is seeing a large number of individuals …

“Housing overall is a huge challenge all over the country for everybody but especially for people with serious mental illness living on a fixed income,” says Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Director of Operations, Thava Mahadevan in a new video depicting the growth and importance of the Tiny Homes Village project currently being …

On Wednesday June 15, 2022, Dr. Mindy Asbury, Medical Director for Wake ACT, spoke to a group of mental health professionals at the North Carolina AHEC education seminar on the importance of high-fidelity assertive community treatment (ACT). High-fidelity assertive community treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based and cost-effective modality that improves outcomes, including quality of life …

The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health (CECMH) at UNC-Chapel Hill recognizes that housing and comprehensive health and behavioral health services must be enhanced with occupational therapy to optimize the independent living skills of adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and reduce homelessness. Accordingly, the CECMH, in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental …

Dr. Mindy Asbury will be presenting the importance of clozapine use for the treatment of schizophrenia and related disorders to a group or mental health professionals at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) Psychiatry Grand Rounds on March 17, 2022. The information presented at this educational activity will highlight the evidence supporting clozapine use. …

Author Archives: Paige Nuebel

After pandemic pet boom, owners struggle with rising costs of veterinary care

The Power and Value of Insight

Farm at Penny Lane receives funding for a Mobile Food Unit

Developing a new CBT-focused intervention for patients in the criminal justice system.

HomeLink Holiday Miracle

CECMH Becomes a Project ECHO Hub

Miss Penny Serves N.C. Communities

Community Organizations Educate on Mental Health and Crisis Response

It Takes a Community to Build a Village

Asbury Educates Mental Health Professionals on ACT

Making an Impact on Homelessness

Increasing Clozapine Utilization through Education