The National Alliance on Mental Illness will hold the Family-to-Family Free Education Program.
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Mental health volunteers
Chatham County’s commissioners will appoint three people to a mental health advisory board that will serve Chatham, Orange and Person counties.Â
Court upholds mental health benefits
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most provisions of the PPACA is good news for many previously uninsured North Carolinians.
A mental health model that works
To be diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness is, quite often, to be labeled an “other.â€
Mental health center receives grant
The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health has received an $850,000, three-year grant from The Duke Endowment to create a health home, integrating primary care into its mental health care programs for people in Orange, Person and Chatham counties.
Club Nova observes mental illness awareness week
Club Nova will host its third annual recognition of Mental Illness Awareness Week from Thursday to Saturday at 103D W. Main St. in Carrboro.
Budget cuts take further toll on mental health system
These are especially trying days for North Carolinians living with mental illness – particularly those without the means to pay for much-needed services – and for those who provide these services.
Mental illness family classes
Family to Family is a series of 12 weekly classes structured to help family members understand and support a loved one with a serious mental illness.
KidSCope meets mental health needs
By Linda Foxworth
As difficult as it is to imagine, children as young as 2 or 3 years old may have depression or anxiety.
Letter: Don’t cut environmental education
Geographically speaking, North Carolina is one of the most diverse and beautiful states in the union.
Letter: May is Children’s Mental Health Month
Unbelievable, but true: 9 to 14 percent of children from birth to 5 years of age experience depression, anxiety or some other social and emotional problem that negatively effects their functioning and development.
Mental health care agencies merge
The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and XDS Inc., a nonprofit agency serving adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses in Orange and four surrounding counties, announced Tuesday that they are merging operations.
GOP planning to rewrite environmental policy, dismantle regulator
In this year’s General Assembly session, major changes to the way the state protects the environment and regulates polluting industries are being considered by the new House and Senate leadership.
Environmental ethics conference
The Parr Center for Ethics will host a daylong conference on the ethics surrounding local environmental issues on April 2 at Hyde Hall on UNC’s campus.
Uncertain days for small mental health providers
With a new system for provisioning mental health care services now in effect, the question remains of what will happen to smaller providers.