1 week ago
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 …
3 months ago
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 …
4 months ago
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. …
5 months ago
This week the many Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Wake County services began transitioning to their new offices at historic Whitaker Mill in Raleigh. What you need to know: Will the clinic be operational during the move? Wake STEP, ACTT, NCPRC, and ENCOMPASS will not be taking appointments between February 10-14th, 2022. Any …
5 months ago
Helping others can provide mental, physical and community benefits, says a UNC Health expert, Dr. Austin Hall. If the COVID-19 pandemic has left you feeling disconnected, disheartened or just plain down in the dumps, a good way to reconnect and feel better is to volunteer in your community. Before the pandemic, about three in 10 …
7 months ago
Become a part of treating the “whole” person. On Tuesday, November 30, 2021, UNC Health celebrates the international day of giving, Giving Tuesday, with a special one day only event called Tar Heal Tuesday. For the past nine years, nonprofits and charities all over the globe have celebrated Giving Tuesday on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving …
11 months ago
In response to communities experiencing increasing health disparities due to COVID-19 related challenges, Clinical Scholars provided $298,000 in rapid response grants for 22 projects nationwide. The national leadership program for health care providers led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pivoted program funds which …
1 year ago
An estimated three in ten Americans who are homeless also suffer from serious mental illness (SMI), an indication of the acute lack of affordable, stable housing for some of our society’s most vulnerable members. An innovative project, funded by a grant from Cardinal Innovations Healthcare, hopes to use micro-housing configured with supportive services and nearby …
1 year ago
The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health is taking an assertive, multipronged approach to make certain that its patients get a fair shot at getting their shot. The CECMH’s vaccination team, led by Austin Hall, MD, has the goal of a rate of vaccination in its severely mentally ill population of around 1600 individuals …
1 year ago
Alliance Health is making a $100,000 capital investment to build two tiny homes that will provide permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness who are served by the UNC Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT). The homes will be part of the all-inclusive Tiny Homes Village at the Farm at Penny Lane in Pittsboro, NC. The village …
1 year ago
The UNC Paws program is all about helping individuals with mental health issues though the use of animal companionship. However, sometimes those individuals can not afford to properly take care of their new furry family members because of poor funding or homelessness. This is why the Center has partnered with the University of Tennessee to …
1 year ago
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 money for food, or gas canisters to light the camping stove that kept them warm at night. In the summers they fought off copperheads and …
