On April 30, 2020, FEMA announced North Carolina’s eligibility to apply for Crisis Counseling Program (CCP) disaster funds and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) acted quickly to submit an application that same day.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 @ 10:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Hope4Healers Helpline (919-226-2002) is being expanded to support the staff who work in North Carolina’s child care programs.
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2020 @ 11:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has two new mental health resources to support North Carolinians throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2020 @ 2:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A stack of studies chronicles worrisome trends in adolescent mental health. Over a decade, youth depression has increased significantly.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 3:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina is grappling with systemic shortages in mental health care, and regulations are making it worse — often disproportionately hurting veterans and the state’s most vulnerable residents.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2020 @ 9:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Mental health leaders will be traveling across North Carolina over the next several months on a town hall listening tour to listen to the concerns and experiences of consumers, families and advocates.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2020 @ 8:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As many of you might know, I was in Washington DC last week with one of my absolute favorite organizations - FreedomWorks.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 6:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Mental health is an overlooked aspect of hurricane recovery
Published: Saturday, January 4th, 2020 @ 2:56 am
By: ECU News Services
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Remarks by President Trump at the White House Mental Health Summit
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2019 @ 2:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Measure to be introduced in 2020 aims to cut suicides by increasing access to key services to our men and women — and offer unconventional treatments, too, such as yoga and acupuncture
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 9:42 am
By: LifeZette
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Farmers in eastern North Carolina are facing a crisis of compounding issues that are threatening their mental health and that of their families.
Published: Monday, June 24th, 2019 @ 4:48 pm
By: ECU News Services
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“The cost of doing nothing is not nothing,” John Owen, mental health consumer, told Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, M.D, at a roundtable to discuss the impact of untreated behavioral health on communities and the challenges of accessing care for those who need it.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 9:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina will receive $27 million over the next year to fight the state's opioid epidemic by getting people off opioids and preventing others from misusing them, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 11:31 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced three new appointments to state boards and commissions
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2018 @ 12:28 am
By: Governor's Office
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Lawmakers approved six recommendations during the final meeting of the School Safety Subcommittee on Student Health
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Military has a simple 10 week method to determine mental health ... called boot camp.
Published: Monday, April 16th, 2018 @ 3:28 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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The legislature's School Safety Subcommittee on Student Health heard from myriad mental health experts about the need for more school psychologists and other related services in North Carolina public schools
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 1:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mental health dominated the first meeting of the House Select Committee on School Safety, with speakers warning legislators about a shortage of student mental health services
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2018 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to re-introduce the Prioritizing Veterans' Access to Mental Health Care Act
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2017 @ 5:13 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The NFL has one heck of a double standard when it comes to free speech, as was abundantly illustrated on Sunday.
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 12:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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The state Department of Health and Human Services proposes to expand Medicaid and restructure the state's controversial mental health provider networks, Secretary Mandy Cohen said Tuesday
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 @ 3:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's tough to be an adolescent. It was ever thus. A century ago, psychologist Stanley Hall characterized adolescence as "storm and stress." Some teenagers sail through with little tempest and tumult
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2017 @ 6:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House and Senate Republicans are stuck in a debate about oversight of the state's largest mental health provider and who will control mental health services for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians
Published: Thursday, July 13th, 2017 @ 1:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is strengthening its contracts by seeking improved outcomes from the organizations that manage behavioral health care services supported with Medicaid and state mental health funds
Published: Tuesday, July 11th, 2017 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, Governor Cooper signed the following bills into law
Published: Friday, June 9th, 2017 @ 11:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's foster kids are not all right
Published: Sunday, May 28th, 2017 @ 7:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As required by law, Governor Pat McCrory released the following budget recommendations
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 7:03 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Rick Brajer has been presented the John Baggett Advocate Award from the North Carolina chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 2:18 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) supported the 21st Century Cures Act, bipartisan legislation that increases funding for Alzheimer's and cancer research, strengthens and improves important mental health programs, and gives additional money to fight the opioid crisis across the nation.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 9:52 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory are partnering with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse to recognize Family Day in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:24 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory's Task Force on Safer Schools met this week to discuss mental health initiatives to improve school safety, a top priority set by the governor when he created the North Carolina Center for Safer Schools.
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2016 @ 7:30 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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In any industry, the quality of service or whether one receives services at all hinges on one critical element: access
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2016 @ 10:25 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Budget writers working on the state's 2016-17 spending plan received the OK to increase the amount of money to open new psychiatric beds around the state from $12 million to $18 million, using proceeds from the sale of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh, while eliminating a controversial regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Continuing his administration's commitment to take on North Carolina's toughest mental health and substance abuse challenges, Governor McCrory has accepted recommendations from two key task forces set up to develop new strategies for addressing mental health, substance abuse and underage drinking.
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2016 @ 5:24 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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