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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...

L-R Mebane Rash, JD, John Gilmore, MD, Lorna Moser, PhD, Emery Cowan, MS, Thava Mahaevan, MS and Shane Rau, MD, PhD The 21st Annual STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program) Symposium highlighted recovery programs and the latest policy changes that will impact individuals with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. Sponsored...

  L-R Primary care team: Rupal Yu, MD, MPH, Kelly Smedley, RN, MSN, CNS, and Robin Reed, MD, MPH, Judith Causey, RN As part of a collaboration with Piedmont Health Services (PHS) and UNC Family Medicine, the Center has recently added a primary care physician to its Carr Mill Clinic...

The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health has created an advisory board, which held its first meeting May 29, 2014 at the Carolina Club at the Georges Watts Hill Alumni Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Center, part of the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of...

  L-R Ariel Reynolds, MSW, and Matt Diehl, MSW After being named a Dartmouth Research site last fall, the Center is launching an evidence-based supported employment program to assist individuals with serious mental illness to find and maintain a job. The Center is one of four North Carolina grant recipients...

Reality Check Spring 2014 Editor Alice Lockhart, BA Director of Communications alice_lockhart@med.unc.edu Photography Will Owen Photography Charles Thayer, MS Edward Binanay, BS Copyright UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health CB 7160 Chapel Hill, NC 27599

In a collaboration between the UNC School of Social Work and the Duke Divinity School, Dustin Rawlins, who is in his fourth year in the program, completed his field placement this past spring with the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, where he worked in a critical time...

The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health was developed to help improve care in our local community and throughout the state.While change and uncertainty continues to define North Carolina’s mental health system, we at the Center continue to believe that the system should rely on treatment we know...

The Center's Annie Kelly, MD, heads the new psychiatric street medicine program that is a designated AHEC psychiatric training site. She and psychiatry residents Anisha Gulati, MD, and Alicia Watson, MD, spend Thursdays assisting the homeless with mental illness as they make rounds on and around Chapel Hill's Franklin Street.

The Center's Caroline Ginley heads the Community Outreach Court (CRC) program. A collaboration with Judicial District 15-Orange and Chatham counties, CRC addresses the needs of individuals with diagnosed mental disorders who become involved with the criminal courts in Orange or Chatham County. CRC was formerly an OPC area program. Ginley...

Interview with Thava Mahadevan, MS, director and founder of The Farm at Penny Lane and director of operations at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health

The Center’s Farm at Penny Lane cultivate more than plants from the North Carolina Health News Read more