This summer we reached an exciting milestone—we now have more than 100 employees at the Center, and we continue to grow.
The Center’s OASIS (Outreach and Support Intervention Services) program, serving adolescents and young adults who are experiencing their first episode of psychosis, has expanded to Wake County. The new clinic is currently housed at our Falstaff Road location, along with Wake STEP, our Wake ACT Team and the North Carolina Psychiatric Research Center.
In this issue of our newsletter, you’ll read about two of the Center’s recovery programs and OASIS’ new nutrition and wellness program, STRIDE. Our puppies training to be assistance dogs at our Puppy Development Center are now grown and are being paired with disabled veterans. Our UNC Brushes with Life Arts Program is collaborating with UNC PAWS for the Dog Parade Arts Exhibit that is modeled on the national Cow Parade. BWL artists are painting fiberglass dog sculptures that will be traveling around the Triangle.
Plans for our second-annual No Limits Gala, scheduled for November 12, are underway. Well-known writer and mental-health advocate Pete Earley will be the featured speaker. I am very pleased that Shelley Eure, Van Eure and Steve Thanhauser from the Foundation of Hope (Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness) will receive our Center’s Community Mental Health Advocacy Award this year. They have done tremendous work to raise the awareness of mental illness.
Check out our gala at https://giving.dev.unc.edu/events/2015/nolimitsgala and register today.
We are grateful for your continued support.
John Gilmore, MD
Thad and Alice Eure Professor
Vice Chair Research
Department of Psychiatry