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Posted inMental Health

A refuge for patients in mental distress with nowhere else to go

by Taylor Knopf September 28, 2021September 27, 2021

By Taylor Knopf When Mamadou Kasse drives for Uber or Lyft around Winston-Salem, he sometimes gets requests to pick up patients discharged from a hospital emergency department. Those pick up requests come from the hospital, which pays for the rides, he said. With Uber or Lyft, each ride request includes an address for the passenger’s […]

older white man with white hair, jacket and hat sits on a city bench talking on a cell phone
Posted inMental Health

Warm line: a mental health support, answered by people who can relate

by Taylor Knopf July 29, 2021March 28, 2022
A woman at a podium in front of a trifold poster. She is Laurie Coker, who is discussing a peer support and community-first model to mental health
Posted inMental Health

In Winston-Salem, a community-first approach to mental illness

by Yen Duong November 6, 2019November 5, 2019

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