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Department of Psychiatry

Spring Newsletter 2015 (Reality Check)

  • Editorial Information

    Reality Check Newsletter Summer 2015 Editor Alice Lockhart, BA Director of Communications Contributing Writers Maddie Gilmore Sunny Westerman Photography JoanBrady Photography Will Owen Photography Copyright UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health CB 7160 Chapel Hill, N.C

  • Editorial Information

    Editor Alice Lockhart. BA Director, Communications Photographers Ed Binanay, BA Charles Thayer, MS Will Owen Photography Contributing Writer Madeline Gilmore Copyright UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health CB 7160 Chapel Hill, N.C Contact alice_lockhart@med.unc.edu

  • Aaron Nelson

    Aaron Nelson will serve as chair of Center Advisory Board

      Aaron Nelson Aaron Nelson, president and CEO, Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, will serve as chair of the Center’s advisory board. He has headed the Chamber for 14 years, has been the executive director of the Chamber’s charitable economic and community development affiliate since its creation in 2004, and is co-chair of the national … Read more

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    Awards and News Briefs

    NAMI Walk Nearly 20 Center employees, families and friends gathered in Raleigh at the Dorothea Dix Campus on May 2 to walk the 2.3 mile route to support NAMI. Proceeds from the walk will be used for critical mental health programs, education, support and advocacy. The Center team raised more than $1,200 to assist NAMI … Read more

  • Annual STEP Symposium focuses on new recovery approaches for early psychosis

    Nearly 100 patients, families and mental health professionals learned about new recovery approaches for early psychosis at the 22nd Annual STEP Symposium on April 18, 2015 at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center at Meadowmont in Chapel Hill. John Gilmore, MD, Thad and Alice Eure professor, department of psychiatry, vice chair, Research and Scientific Affairs, … Read more

  • Erica Arrington, MD

    Erica Arrington named medical director for UNC STEP Clinic

    Erica Arrington, MD Erica Arrington, MD, joined the Center March 1, 2015 as clinical associate professor and medical director for the Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program (STEP) at the Carr Mill Community Clinic. Additionally, she serves as medical director for the Critical Time Intervention program and provides clinical support to various other programs at the … Read more

  • Janice Bainbridge, MSW, LCSW, Team Leader CTI

    CTI program will expand and serve more individuals who are at risk for homelessness

      Janice Bainbridge, MSW, LCSW, Team Leader CTI The Critical Time Intervention (CTI) program at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health will continue its services this year as it undergoes an important expansion. Funded with recent contracts from the state, the program’s growing team will serve around 90 individuals with severe mental … Read more

  • Carol VanderZwagg, MD

    Pilot Step Down program fills a gap in transitioning ACT clients to lower intensity care

      Carol VanderZwagg, MD The UNC Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team at the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health is piloting a new program that will fill an important gap in community-based treatment of individuals with severe mental illness in Orange and Chatham counties. A Medicaid-funded service that will be a subset of the … Read more

  • UNC-CH and Meridian Behavioral Services in Western North Carolina sign an affiliation agreement

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Meridian Behavioral Services Inc., a private nonprofit in Sylva, signed an affiliation agreement May 1, 2015. John Gilmore, MD, Thad and Alice Eure Professor, vice chair of Research and Scientific Affairs, director and medical director of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health in … Read more

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    Awards and News Briefs

    Mahadevan receives Citizen’s Award Thava Mahadevan, MS, director of operations at the Center and director of The Farm at Penny Lane, received a Citizen’s Award from the Indy Magazine at the Cotton Room at the Golden Belt in Durham, N.C. on Feb. 22, 2014. The Indy award states that it honors “individuals who through long-term … Read more