3 weeks ago
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 …
3 months ago
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® …
3 months ago
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 …
7 months ago
“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 …
8 months 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 …
10 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 …
11 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. …
12 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 …
12 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 …
1 year 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 …
2 years 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 …
2 years 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 …
