4 days ago
Community organizations in and around Chapel Hill are working to address the link between mental health and housing insecurity. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 21.1 percent of people experiencing homelessness also have a serious mental health condition, compared to 5.5 percent of all U.S. adults. Paul Marvin, the HomeLink team lead at …
3 weeks ago
The Farm at Penny Lane community will be studied by UNC’s School of Social Work to see how the project might be replicated around the country. It starts with a colorful front door, which opens up into 416 square feet of home. “The colors on the doors are kind of our signature,” said Alaina Money-Garman, …
3 weeks ago
For centuries, breaking bread has been used to build relationships, camaraderie, and trust between those sharing the meal. Staff in the Heat and Eat program are using this time-tested tradition to connect and build relationships with patients that have been historically hard to reach. For the last year, Good Bowls has been partnering with UNC’s …
1 month ago
The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health has received a $2.4 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to address homelessness and provide comprehensive behavioral care and other services for individuals living with serious mental illnesses who are experiencing or who are at risk for homelessness. One of …
3 months ago
To most people, socks are just something to wash on laundry day, but to someone in need, they can be everything. The dedicated team at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health (CECMH) understands this better than most. Among the 20+ services offered to the Triangle community, they work to provide basic necessities, …
6 months ago
PBS featured UNC PAWS’ partner AlignCare and its mission to assist owners struggling with rising veterinary costs.
8 months ago
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 …
8 months ago
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 …
9 months 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 …
11 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® …
11 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 …
1 year 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 …
