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25707
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In the national movement to improve care and services for children with emotional issues, East Carolina University researchers are leading the way through a project called Pitt Edgecombe Nash-Public Academic Liaison (PEN-PAL). The project brings together multi-agency service providers, communities, and families for a seamless system of care for over 400 children who suffer with issues such as attention deficit disorder, anxiety, depression, and oppositional defiant disorder.
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9093
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Botts discusses legislation enacted by the 1998 North Carolina General Assembly that affects substance abuse, developmental disabilities, and mental health services. Legislative enactments include appropriations, the Psychotherapy Sexual Exploitations Act, juvenile justice reform, and children with special needs.
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7086
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Botts discusses legislation enacted by the 1997 North Carolina General Assembly that affects substance abuse, developmental disabilities, and mental health services. Legislative enactments include reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, welfare reform, confidentiality, and the open meetings law.
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2564
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The earliest treatment of mental illness was to lock up the victims. As understanding grew, the state provided leadership. Now local government is looked to for leadership in providing solutions.
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7085
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Botts discusses legislation enacted by the 1995 North Carolina General Assembly that affects substance abuse, developmental disabilities, and mental health services. Legislative enactments include changes in the Willie M. program, court-ordered treatment, and domiciliary care facilities.
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31358
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Grace Freeman is a renown, award-winning poet who, for the last eight years, has worked as a poetry therapist at Gaston-Lincoln Mental Health Center in Gastonia. Freeman helps patients to reduce their anxiety and to express their true feelings through poetry. Her work has helped make poetry therapy as acceptable to health care institutions as alternative therapy techniques involving the creative and fine arts.
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18504
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In 1981, the state had 41 community mental health centers providing a range of services from education to treatment for children to adults. Community center success grew from better understanding of mental health issues and aimed to serve individuals on a local level rather than state level. The article reviews both successes and obstacles of the community mental health program.
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18505
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Early intervention refers to community-based programs across the state devoted to education and treatment of emotionally disturbed youth. These programs began in 1975 after the General Assembly approved $1.2 million in support. In 1981, there were programs in 21 counties offering consultation, education, and even treatment to prevent emotionally disturbed children from maturing into emotionally disturbed adults.
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17851
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The General Assembly consolidated several capacities of the Department of Public Health and Welfare in 1963 to form the Department of Mental Health. Under the leadership of Dr. Eugene Hargrove, three divisions run by a Deputy Commissioner were created; the Division of Mental Retardation, the Division of Mental hospitals, and the Division of Community Mental Health Services. Through these divisions specific programs focused on research, alcohol rehabilitation, and mentally disabled children.
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12790
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Previously an insurance salesmen from Chapel Hill, John Wesley Umstead, Jr. shifted trades after the loss of a son in 1944, becoming one of the most influential people of North Carolina in the field of mental health. Appointed to the State Hospitals Board of Control, as overseer of mental hospitals in 1945, Umstead is noted as being responsible for the emergence of North Carolina as one of the premier locations for the treatment of mental health problems nationwide.
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