UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health
Counseling
Why pick this one
UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health provides multidisciplinary, integrated psychiatric and medical care for serious mental illness, including psychosis and schizophrenia.
Best for
- people with serious mental illness seeking evidence-based treatment
- adolescents and young adults ages 15-30 experiencing recent-onset psychosis or at risk for psychosis
- individuals and families dealing with schizophrenia
- people needing coordinated psychiatric and medical care
- people transitioning from a facility to community living
- people with serious mental illness seeking supported employment
- people experiencing chronic homelessness or housing risk alongside mental illness
Look elsewhere if
- people seeking routine counseling unrelated to serious mental illness
- people seeking services outside the Center's clinical, community and recovery mental health programs
Specialties
- serious mental illness recovery
- psychotic disorders treatment
- recent-onset psychosis care for ages 15-30
- schizophrenia treatment
- evidence-based individual and group therapy
- integrated psychiatric and medical care
- assertive community treatment
- supported employment for people with serious mental illness
- homelessness support through HomeLink
Certifications
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- UNC School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
What makes them different
- Care is delivered by multidisciplinary teams including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, rehabilitation counselors, nurses and other mental health professionals.
- Services integrate psychiatric and medical care.
- The Center provides a continuum of clinical, community and recovery services.
- The Center conducts mental health research and provides training, consultation and technical assistance to other providers.
- Community programs address housing, employment, food insecurity, court involvement and transitions from facilities to community living.
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Contact & Location
- Address
- 200 N Greensboro St, Carrboro, NC 27510-1830
- Phone
- +19199624919
- Website
- https://www.med.unc.edu/psych/cecmh/
Services
- clinical mental health services
- community mental health services
- recovery services
- individual and group therapy
- integrated primary and behavioral health care
- prevention and early identification
- mental health training and consultation
- mental health research
- community education