9 years ago
Come see the Institute Director share her knowledge at the conference. Keynote Presenter: Lorna Moser, PhD, HSPP, is director of the Institute for Best Practices within the University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and is a licensed psychologist with specialized training in psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health services research. …
10 years ago
The Center’s Wake County programs, STEP, OASIS and our Wake ACT Team, along with WakeBrook Crisis and Assessment and its programs, and the UNC Parent Assessment Program were honored as UNC Health Care Award as part of a leadership award that North Carolina Council of Community Programs presented to UNC Health Care on June 20 at the North Raleigh Hilton.
10 years ago
Mark your calendar for November 17 for the Center's Third Annual No Limits Gala. Professional drummer and mental health advocate Mike Veny will be the featured speaker at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center on the UNC Campus. He is founder of TransformingStigma.Com.
10 years ago
It has been an exciting year at the Center, and we continue to grow our services to reach more individuals with mental illness and to train mental health professionals around the state. Diana Perkins, MD, MPH, and her team at UNC’s Outreach and Support Intervention Services (OASIS) expanded their services for adolescents and young adults to Wake County and are located on Glenwood Avenue. Our Dartmouth-modeled IPS Supported Employment program, which helps our patients find jobs, continues to be a great success.
10 years ago
The Center's Farm at Penny Lane, which houses our innovative recovery and rehabilitation programs for individuals with severe mental illness, was featured in the March issue of the Carolina Alumni Review, courtesy of writer David Brown. This nearly 40-acre farm, located in Pittsboro, approximately, six miles from the UNC-Chapel Hill Campus, is home to a Community Garden, our Horticulture Therapy Program, bees, chickens and those cute puppies from our Puppy Development Center at Penny Lane. The puppies, including TRESSIE, were particularly pleased to be part of the article. Take a look; you'll love it!
10 years ago
OASIS celebrates its expansion and a new location in Raleigh UNC OASIS celebrated its expansion to Wake County and the opening of a new office on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh on February 18. Local clinicians, physicians, patients and their families had the opportunity to learn about early psychosis and treatment at a community symposium titled …
10 years ago
Editor Alice Lockhart, BA Director of Communications alice_lockhart@med.unc.edu Photography Will Owen Photography Edward Binanay, BS Copyright UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health CB 7160 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 June 2016
10 years ago
Austin Hall, MD, associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry, joined the Center in March 2015 to work with the UNC Chatham-Orange Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team and became medical director June 1 for the Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program (STEP) at the Carr Mill Community Clinic. He will also support various programs at …
10 years ago
Medical Directors from around the state met at the UNC William and Ida Friday Center, May 21, for the Sixth Annual Medical Directors’ Network Symposium to learn about changes in North Carolina’s public mental health system and to hear from other experts about management and best practices for clinical topics. Approximately 60 medical directors from …
10 years ago
The 23rd Annual STEP Symposium, held April 30 at the UNC William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, attracted more than 100 participants from around the state. The annual STEP Symposium offers mental health professionals, advocates, individuals and families living with schizophrenia a learning opportunity focused on innovative treatment and approaches. This year’s symposium …
10 years ago
Nerissa Price, MD, joined the UNC Wake STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program) Clinic in December 2015 as assistant professor and was named medical director on April 1. “Dr. Price brings a strong commitment to her patients and a vision for how the Wake STEP clinic can build on its successes to provide expanded services …
10 years ago
The Center’s Wake County programs, STEP, OASIS and our Wake ACT Team, along with WakeBrook Crisis and Assessment and its programs, and the UNC Parent Assessment Program were honored as part of a leadership award that North Carolina Council of Community Programs presented to UNC Health Care on June 20 at the North Raleigh Hilton. …
