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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a formidable challenge to care continuity for community mental health clients with serious mental illness and for providers who have had to quickly pivot the modes of delivering critical services. Despite these challenges, many of the changes implemented during the pandemic can and should be...

Challenges in employment are highly prevalent among people with schizophrenia regardless of their employment history. Although supportive employment can be effective, few participants sustain meaningful competitive employment. Our goal was to identify the correlates of developing sustained unemployment…read more. Fundora C, Cruz M, Barone K, Penn DL, Jarskog LF, Pinkham...

Based on the results of a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial or the treatment of auditory hallucinations in patients with schizophreni, findings suggest that tACS may be of future therapeutic value, and weekly tACS may be a means of increasing the durability of clinical benefit. A single patient trial was conducted...

Poor health and low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) contribute substantially to the shortened lifespan of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs). Increasing physical activity has demonstrated value; however, there are limited interventions that are accessible and adequately address motivational challenges. This paper reports on an open trial of Physical Activity Can...

Although 2020 has been a challenging year, it has also presented a lot of opportunities to think differently. The Wellness on Wheels (WOW) mobile unit, like many other programs, had to adapt to the challenges of a global pandemic and creatively continue to provide essential testing services. We are pleased...

The Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health Director, Dr. John GIlmore, talks to WCHL about fighting mental health stigma and the Center’s efforts to help individuals with schizophrenia. Psychotic disorders are mental illnesses that are characterized by psychotic symptoms, which can generally be described as a loss of contact...

Elizabeth “Beth” Rossi, director of quality management and clinics manager for the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health was accepted into the 2021 Advanced Leader Academy along with Crystal Rogan, manager of UNC Psychiatry’s Vilcom outpatient clinic! The advanced leader academy is a program through the UNC Healthcare...

October 1, 2020 For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two clinical scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year. Thava Mahadevan, MS, clinical instructor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry and Director of Operations for the UNC Center for...

John Gilmore, MD, director of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, vice chair, Research and Eure Professor in the Department of Psychiatry was featured in this April 8 article in the News and Observer.    

“Mental-Health Researchers Ask: What Is ‘Recovery’?“ There are many ways to measure mental distress. But it’s far harder to predict, or even describe, the improvement that often follows. A thoughtful piece in NY Times last week speaks to the challenges in capturing – measuring — someone’s recovery.  There are two...

“Enhancing Skills to Succeed with Independent Living“ This webinar training meets the Community Support Team (CST) service definition requirement for the Basics of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Functional Assessments.  A Certificate of Attendance will be sent to only those who have registered for this webinar (i.e., if multiple team members intend to...

An update has been posted today and shared with all TMACT users across the US and abroad, as well as posted on our website (where you can download the TMACT). When developing the TMACT, we omitted DACTS’ items that addressed features of the team that were not necessarily defining of...