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  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...

  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...

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...

UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health launched a new evidence-based supported employment program for individuals with mental illness in June of 2014. The program recently received an exemplary rating by the NC Department of Health and Human Services.

The Center's Farm at Penny Lane participated at UNC's biannual farmer's market at the Pit. The event is held each semester to introduce students to local sources of food and other products.

Robin Reed, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry and director for the Center’s integrated care program, is the principal investigator for the four-year grant.

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Summer/Fall News letter (Reality Check) Editor: Alice Lockhart, BA, Director of Communications Contact: alice_lochart@med.unc.edu Photographers Ed Binanay, BA Melanie Busbee, BA Charles Thayer, MS Will Owen Photography Contributing Writer Tom Hughes, MA Copyright UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health CB 7160 Chapel Hill, N.C

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Center presents at North Carolina NAMI conference   Robin Reed, MD, MPH, assistant professor, and medical director of the Center’s Health Home, Thava Mahadevan, MS, director of operations, Kelty Bailey, MS, assistant clinical professor, and John Gilmore, MD, director of the Center, and Thad and Alice Eure Professor and vice...

  Individuals with severe mental illness are learning a new skill and gaining support, and shelter dogs are getting another chance at adoption at UNC PAWS (Peer-Assisted Wellness Support), a new program at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Farm at Penny Lane, located about seven miles...

  The Center continues to grow, and we have a number of accomplishments to share in this newsletter. In May we received a three-year accreditation from CARF and earned high remarks from the accreditation committee. Leah Pribac joined us in August as the Center’s business officer and will oversee financial...