Press Releases

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 and their Emergency Medical Services, announced Courtney Cantrell, PhD, Director of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services.

The Critical Time Intervention pilot program, a part of North Carolina’s Crisis Solutions Initiative which assists adults with mental illnesses during transition periods, is planning for an expansion after receiving funding through a federal block grant, according to a Department of Health and Human Services press release.

For the second straight fiscal year, the North Carolina Medicaid program ended the year with cash on hand.

Warm weather picnics and cookouts can produce opportunities for food-borne illness if safe food-handling practices are not closely observed, state health officials caution.

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 Critical Time Intervention, a program that assists adults with mental illness who are going through a transition phase in their recovery process.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will soon be able to help more than 4,000 people with substance use disorders access recovery support services.

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Secretary Aldona Wos, M.D. released a statement regarding House Bill 372.

More than 450 people attended a community celebration to kick-off the Gaston County Critical Time Intervention (CTI) program.

Carolina Business Review takes a look at mental health policies in the Carolinas.

The NC Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health (DPH) announced its second North Carolina Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care Designations this week, awarding the distinction to three child care facilities in the state.