Mental Health Town Hall Focused on People Impacted by the Justice System
ncIMPACT Initiative
Supporting policy innovations through key insights and data-informed opportunities.
It is estimated that up to 40% of people in jails and prisons have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Those conditions sometimes go untreated, leading to a cycle of incarceration and reincarceration. Watch this episode to learn about unique solutions in North Carolina working to break the cycle.
Moderator: Anita Brown-Graham , ncIMPACT Initiative
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Learn how communities in North Carolina are focusing on therapeutic justice, helping people with drug addiction or mental illness navigate to community-based alternatives to incarceration, in our latest ncIMPACT mental health town hall.
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Thank you to everyone who participated in this important discussion, sharing new perspectives and offering insightful questions to our panelists. This series of mental health town hall events is made possible through our partnership with PBS North Carolina and with support from UNC Health. Watch the series in September on Friday evenings at 7:30 PM on PBS North Carolina. Each episode will appear on the ncIMPACT episode feed beginning on the date it premieres on PBS NC.
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ncIMPACT and UNC's Suicide Prevention Institute are partnering with 15 community collaboratives on the "Our State, Our Wellbeing" program.
Partnering to Improve Mental Health in NC
Learn about Carolina Across 100's "Our State, Our Wellbeing." This second program of Carolina Across 100 was launched by the ncIMPACT Initiative and the UNC Suicide Prevention Institute, partnering with North Carolina communities to improve mental health and prevent suicide. Fifteen teams from 24 counties were recently selected to participate in this program.
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