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Twenty-sixth Annual STEP Symposium focuses on social determinants of mental health and recovery More than 100 patients, families and mental health professionals from around the State gathered April 6 at the UNC Friday Center to learn about community factors and other social determinants of health, including housing, transportation, food security,...

John Gilmore, MD, director of the  Network and the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, Thad and Alice Eure Distinguished Professor and vice chair, Research and Scientific Affairs, in the Department of Psychiatry, welcomed community psychiatrists and other leaders from around the State. He recognized North Carolina’s AHEC’s...

  Thava Mahadevan receives an inaugural Ann & Gerry Akland Person of Passion Award at Wake County NAMI Thava Mahadevan, MS, LCAS, director of operations at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, received an inaugural Ann & Gerry Akland Person of Passion Award at NAMI Wake County’s...

Newsletter Summer 2019 Reality Check Editor: Alice Lockhart Photography: Brian Stickland Photography Alec Himwich Photography Copyright – UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, CB 7160, Chapel Hill, N.C.

The Institute’s Melissa DeHaven and Penny Liles presented “Strengths Training: No Workout Required!” A training that helped participants identify strengths and use strengths language when helping people find and maintain jobs. Yesterday, they presented “Matchmaker: Make me a Match.” This training showed participants how to be mindful of the ways...

Lyn Legere recently led our Employment Peer Mentor (EPM) training, which is designed for those people working as EPMs on IPS teams across North Carolina. The 3-day mandatory training supports EPMs to understand their specific role on IPS teams, learn how to maintain their “peerness” and recognize how the NC...

I would bet we all can agree that service intensity should be tailored to what the individual wants and needs — but that response is also too simple, and not very helpful.  I’ll bullet point on some considerations… What you are able to offer depends on what you have on...

Our recent two-day Intro to START Training with Dr. Sarah Desmarais from NC State. Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) is a framework and tool providers (broadly defined) can use to systematically examine strengths and protective factors, as well as current problems that create risks… Spanning a full array...

North Carolina (NC) ACT Coalition was founded over 10 years ago, where a few NC agencies committed to providing ACT – and doing it well — joined together as a solid unit to share resources, ideas, and unite to be a single voice lobbying for more resources and better policy. ...

This two-day training was an introduction to the evidence-based practice, incorporating the philosophy, practice principles, and the elements of the practice. Training: April 16, 2019

Taking Issue Lorna Moser, Ph.D., and Maria Monroe-DeVita, Ph.D. Four decades after its development, assertive community treatment (ACT) continues to be a critical service program within U.S. mental health systems of care. Understanding its availability is essential for adequate coverage of people with serious mental illness who need this comprehensive, high-intensity service. We...

How to write a PIE Note Purpose – Goals for the meeting or overriding goal/s for individual Intervention – Brief summary of what occurred, an outline of steps taken during the meeting Effectiveness – The narrative – what was learned, important details, and plans for next steps Training: March 19,...