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Mental health advocates use gathering to push for funding, priorities

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Mental health advocates use gathering to push for funding, priorities - North Carolina Health News

An annual event brings mental health advocates face-to-face with policymakers, but questions linger whether the encounters move the needle.

By Rose Hoban Hundreds of people concerned about North Carolina’s mental health system convened in Chapel Hill on Saturday morning for an annual event that’s become a prime forum for laying out the priorities and concerns of the mental health community. About 400 service providers, advocates and consumers of mental health services were joined by […]

Inside an Emergency Medical Hurricane Shelter

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Inside an Emergency Medical Hurricane Shelter - North Carolina Health News

Medical shelters have been caring for some of North Carolina's most vulnerable victims from Hurricane Florence. Now they're starting to go home, but for many of them, there’s no place to go home to.

By Rose Hoban For the five months that members of the U.S. Public Health Service are on call every year, they’re required to keep a bag packed and be ready to deploy wit 12 hours’ notice. That’s what happened recently for about 73 members of the USPHS who deployed to North Carolina last week as […]

Jail suicides are on the rise in North Carolina

Prison Safety Bill Debate Gets Surprisingly Contentious

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Prison Safety Bill Debate Gets Surprisingly Contentious - North Carolina Health News

A debate over inmates' use of rude gestures and aggressive throwing of bodily fluids turns surprisingly sharp in the wake of the recent deaths of correctional officers.

By Taylor Knopf and Rose Hoban Mental health advocates are concerned that a bill to enhance prison safety could disproportionately hurt inmates with severe mental illnesses. A bill making its way through the General Assembly would have imposed automatic felony charges, with time in prison added to the sentences of inmates who masturbate in front […]

Celebrating 25 Years of the Americans With Disabilities Act

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Celebrating 25 Years of the Americans With Disabilities Act - North Carolina Health News

By Rose Hoban Aside from movement on the ABLE Act (see today’s other story), advocates for people with disabilities have another reason to celebrate this week: July 26 is the 25th birthday of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law by President George H..W. Bush in 1990. There wasn’t a cake, but […]

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