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A community health worker meets with a formerly incarcerated person with a serious mental illness in a clinic room to discuss needs and goals

FIT Wellness transforms lives with reentry support for formerly incarcerated people with serious mental illness

by Rachel Crumpler March 6, 2024March 5, 2024

A young man in scrubs stands in an open doorway, talking to a woman who's wearing a suit. Others are in the hallway behind her. They're standing next to a sign that reads: Occupational Therapy in a new youth psychiatric hospital.

New youth psychiatric hospital will have specialized units for substance use, disabilities

by Taylor Knopf November 9, 2023April 2, 2024

map showing arrangement of local mental health managed care organizations in North Carolina as of 2023. Now that some entities are merged, the state health department is conducting audits of the now-defunct organizations.

NC lawmakers give authority over the state’s mental health care system to DHHS secretary and hope for better outcomes

by Taylor Knopf October 18, 2023October 18, 2023

Approaches to student mental health vary on UNC System campuses that are still reeling from effects of pandemic

by Jennifer Fernandez September 7, 2023September 6, 2023

A series of closed tan doors in a jail housing unit

NC jails have arbitrary early release practices for some health conditions, study finds

by Taylor Knopf August 1, 2023July 31, 2023

we see a man in a suit and tie facing the camera. He's listening to a man talking about his psychiatric advance directive and we see only the back of his head.

Health providers sometimes ignore mental health patients’ documented wishes during treatment

by Taylor Knopf February 7, 2023February 6, 2023