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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking applicants to develop recommendations of Governor Pat McCrory's Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Use, including employing case management and other targeted strategies to help those with mental health and substance use is
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 @ 8:46 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory proclaimed August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day in North Carolina calling on citizens to be aware of the dangers of drug overdose and the efforts underway across the state that address substance use.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2016 @ 2:58 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory was one of the first of 46 governors to sign the Compact to Fight Opioid Addiction outlining steps to address the nationwide opioid epidemic
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory joined law enforcement officers, first responders, legislators and health care officials today at the Guilford County Sheriff's Office to sign legislation making naloxone, a life-saving opioid reversal drug that has already saved 3,300 North Carolinians, more accessible
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Surrounded by families, children, first responders, advocates and care providers, Governor Pat McCrory unveiled his budget priorities to further promote a healthy North Carolina. The governor's budget proposal will expand services to strengthen families and support North Carolina's most...
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory's Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Use provided a legislative committee with an update of its work to improve mental/behavioral health services in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 8:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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More than 2,500 patients across the state may be diverted each year from hospital emergency departments to behavioral health crisis centers with help from $5,000 grants awarded to each of 11 counties
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Director Courtney Cantrell, PhD, of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services, announced that four Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCO) were selected to pilot Critica
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 10:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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More than 450 people attended a community celebration to kick-off the Gaston County Critical Time Intervention (CTI) program. CTI is part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Crisis Solutions Initiative which focuses on identifying and implementing the best known...
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: Chris Downey
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A new state grant will help train McDowell County paramedics on how to provide mental health home wellness checks and connect local people to mental health and addiction treatment programs.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2015 @ 5:33 am
By: Chris Downey
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N.C. DHHS' Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (DMH/DD/SAS) has awarded funding to four projects to enhance mental health and substance abuse crisis services. Projects will receive $998,458 each year for the 2014-15 fiscal year and 2015-16 fiscal year.
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 8:12 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Last week, a young man from eastern North Carolina named Keith Vidal became the latest victim in a long series of preventable tragedies caused by untreated severe mental illness.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 12:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A Boiling Springs Lake father says his son was murdered by police this afternoon. Mark Wilsey called police when his 18-year-old, 90 lb. son had a screwdriver that he would not let go...his son, Keith Vidal, had schizophrenia and was having an episode Sunday afternoon...
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 @ 6:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the Crisis Solutions Initiative, a new state effort aimed at addressing the failures of Gov. Easley's 2001 mental health reforms.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory and DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos deserve credit for trying to sort out and find solutions to our Mental Health program. North Carolina's 2001 mental health "reforms" have been a disaster and the McCrory administration is the first to seriously address them.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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On Thursday, November 7th, DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos announced the McCrory Administration's Crisis Solutions Initiative, a new statewide effort to improve mental health and substance abuse crisis services in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 9:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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