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The UNC School of Social Work will be partnering with the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health in a new three year, NIMH grant funded study to help to design and test a new CBT-focused intervention that, if successful, could make a larger impact by targeting individuals with...

A week before Christmas a HomeLink mother received a gift. Furniture for an apartment that had none. Prior to November, she had been homeless until the Orange County’s Rapid Rehousing program found her and her children an apartment in Durham, NC. When the team at UNC CECMH HomeLink discovered her...

The North Carolina Clozapine Network is excited to announce that our parent organization, UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, has recently become a Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Hub. The NCCN will be the first program hosted via this new Project ECHO® Hub. We plan to...

It’s 9:33 a.m. on a chilly October Monday, and a line of vehicles snakes through a parking lot, waiting for Pittsboro’s CORA Food Pantry to open at 10 a.m. Nearby, four UNC School of Nursing students and Associate Professor Jean Davison are putting up a tent and unpacking supplies for...

Content warning: This article contains mention of suicide and self-harm. September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and community members and organizations throughout Orange County are promoting awareness and educating residents. Thava Mahadevan, director of operations for the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, said the community is seeing...

“Housing overall is a huge challenge all over the country for everybody but especially for people with serious mental illness living on a fixed income,” says Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Director of Operations, Thava Mahadevan in a new video depicting the growth and importance of the Tiny...

On Wednesday June 15, 2022, Dr. Mindy Asbury, Medical Director for Wake ACT, spoke to a group of mental health professionals at the North Carolina AHEC education seminar on the importance of high-fidelity assertive community treatment (ACT). High-fidelity assertive community treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based and cost-effective modality that improves...

The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health (CECMH) at UNC-Chapel Hill recognizes that housing and comprehensive health and behavioral health services must be enhanced with occupational therapy to optimize the independent living skills of adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and reduce homelessness. Accordingly, the CECMH, in partnership with...

Dr. Mindy Asbury will be presenting the importance of clozapine use for the treatment of schizophrenia and related disorders to a group or mental health professionals at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) Psychiatry Grand Rounds on March 17, 2022. The information presented at this educational activity will highlight...

This week the many Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Wake County services began transitioning to their new offices at historic Whitaker Mill in Raleigh. What you need to know: Will the clinic be operational during the move? Wake STEP, ACTT, NCPRC, and ENCOMPASS will not be taking appointments...

Helping others can provide mental, physical and community benefits, says a UNC Health expert, Dr. Austin Hall. If the COVID-19 pandemic has left you feeling disconnected, disheartened or just plain down in the dumps, a good way to reconnect and feel better is to volunteer in your community. Before the...

Become a part of treating the “whole” person. On Tuesday, November 30, 2021, UNC Health celebrates the international day of giving, Giving Tuesday, with a special one day only event called Tar Heal Tuesday. For the past nine years, nonprofits and charities all over the globe have celebrated Giving Tuesday...