1 week ago
A genetic scoring of schizophrenia-related genes in the placenta can predict the size of a baby’s brain at birth and its rate of cognitive development, which, dependent on other factors, may lead to schizophrenia later in life, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS). …
1 month ago
Food insecurity affects approximately 12% of Americans everyday. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic this number has increased drastically and has heavily impacted vulnerable populations who are food insecure. Safe access to healthy foods during the pandemic has been increasingly challenging especially for those who also lack safe transportation. The impact of food insecurity …
2 months ago
Access to safe and affordable housing continues to be one of the most pressing public health and public safety concerns. Over 500,000 people in the United States are homeless each night, many of whom have serious physical and mental health problems. It’s time to think differently and collaborate more in order to solve for this …
2 months ago
The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Director, Dr. John GIlmore, talks to WCHL about fighting mental health stigma and the Center’s efforts to help individuals with schizophrenia. Psychotic disorders are mental illnesses that are characterized by psychotic symptoms, which can generally be described as a loss of contact with reality. The most common …
4 months ago
Elizabeth “Beth” Rossi, director of quality management and clinics manager for the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health was accepted into the 2021 Advanced Leader Academy along with Crystal Rogan, manager of UNC Psychiatry’s Vilcom outpatient clinic! The advanced leader academy is a program through the UNC Healthcare Leadership Institute that offers managers …
5 months ago
October 1, 2020 For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two clinical scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year. Thava Mahadevan, MS, clinical instructor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry and Director of Operations for the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, …
11 months ago
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.
12 months ago
“Mental-Health Researchers Ask: What Is ‘Recovery’?“ There are many ways to measure mental distress. But it’s far harder to predict, or even describe, the improvement that often follows. A thoughtful piece in NY Times last week speaks to the challenges in capturing – measuring — someone’s recovery. There are two primary features of a good …
1 year ago
“Enhancing Skills to Succeed with Independent Living“ This webinar training meets the Community Support Team (CST) service definition requirement for the Basics of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Functional Assessments. A Certificate of Attendance will be sent to only those who have registered for this webinar (i.e., if multiple team members intend to attend together on a single …
1 year ago
An update has been posted today and shared with all TMACT users across the US and abroad, as well as posted on our website (where you can download the TMACT). When developing the TMACT, we omitted DACTS’ items that addressed features of the team that were not necessarily defining of ACT program fidelity, albeit likely …
1 year ago
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
1 year ago
The Brushes with Life gallery located in the N.C. Neuroscienes Hospital is a space for hundreds of local artists living with mental illness to display their work. The Brushes with Life Art Program strives to lessen the stigma of mental illnesses through this program.
