The News & Observer BY JOSH SHAFFER AND SARAH OVASKA - Staff Writers RALEIGH -- In its time, the Water Garden stood as a shrine to modern design: a complex of low-slung, hill-hugging offices surrounded by tall, ivy-covered pine trees and ponds topped with lily pads. You'd never guess from the car dealerships and furniture warehouses that such a gem stood hidden off Glenwood Avenue. And for the last three years, the complex has slowly rotted and gathered squatters' trash. But now the site of the 11-acre Water Garden campus, home and life's work of master landscape architect Dick Bell, is being put to use. Starting next spring, its lush and rolling hills will be converted to low-income housing in a northwest Raleigh neighborhood where it is sorely needed. Quantcast The roughly $6.1 million project by Downtown …
by Bruce Mildwurf and Gerald Owens WRAL.com August 24, 2010 Raleigh, N.C. — The state Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that it would move most operations from Dorothea Dix Hospital to other facilities by the end of the year to save money. State lawmakers didn't include any money for Dix operations in the 2010-11 budget, DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler said, so the department had to find ways to cut $28 million in operating costs. Shifting services from Dix to Central Regional Hospital in Butner and Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro would save about $15 million while maintaining needed capacity for inpatient mental health treatment, Cansler said. Sixty adult inpatient beds, 11 long-term beds, 54 forensic beds, 12 clinical research beds and pre-trial evaluation outpatient and inpatient services will be moved to Central Regional. …
The Duke AHEC Program, in collaboration with the Sandhills Local Management Entity, has developed an ongoing continuing medical series to address important psychiatric management issues encountered in community mental health settings. The current series is targeted toward psychiatrists and other providers working with seriously mentally ill adults and child in underserved regions of the State. At the completion of this training, the participant will: Increase the understanding of War Trauma Develop awareness of the effects of war on military families Learn the impact of war trauma on the surrounding communities Discuss family and community interventions This training is free and available online at any time. To access the training, please visit the Duke AHEC website. Training Author: Douglas A. Waldrep, MD, FAPA COL United States Army (retired) Dr. Waldrep obtained his medical degree from the Medical University of …
From Staff Reports RALEIGH -- With as many as 85 homeless families on a waiting list for shelter in Wake County, county commissioners took a new Salvation Army facility for "fragile families" a step closer to reality Monday. Commissioners agreed unanimously to provide $500,000 in federal community development block grant money to the $4 million redevelopment of a 40,000-square-foot building inside the Beltline on Capital Boulevard. The charity operates a homeless shelter near Moore Square in downtown Raleigh but wants a larger facility to give more services to families. The city of Raleigh is considering a separate $500,000 request; it is expected to come before a Sept. 7 council meeting. Construction on the building - supplied with everything from a computer center to play centers to a full-service commercial kitchen - is expected to start in October and …
On July 14, 2010, NCCEH staff and North Carolina conference attendants met with Congressional representatives in Washington, D.C., during the National Alliance to End Homelessness conference. Please click the links below to download the materials that were shared with our elected representatives. North Carolina Information: Continuum of Care Awards Summary: view pdf 2010 Point-in-Time Count Fact Sheet: view pdf 2010 Point-in-Time Count Map (Numbers per County): view pdf 2010 Point-in-Time County Map (Percentages per County): view pdf Federal Policy Information: Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness Executive Summary: view pdf AHAR Key Points: view pdf McKinney-Vento Appropriations (NAEH one-pager): view pdf Housing and Services Demonstration Project (NAEH one-pager): view pdf National Housing Trust Fund (NAEH one-pager): view pdf Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Appropriations (NAEH one-pager): view pdf Ending Veterans Homelessness (NAEH one-pager): view pdf Zero Tolerance for Veterans Homelessness …
On June 28, 2010, NCCEH hosted a training on Effective HPRP Case Management. Melissa Mowery, Program Director for CAMBA's HomeBase, which provides rapid re-housing, aftercare and prevention services to families and adults in New York City, was the speaker at this training. Material from the training are posted below. "Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing" PowerPoint Presentation (pdf) HomeBase Rapid Re-Housing Field Guide Handout Packet
This paper, written by students at the UNC School of Public Health, addresses the perceived need for respite care in Durham and reviews respite programs in other communities that could serve as models. Click here to download the report.
On April 22, 2010, the NCCEH Rural Communities Dialogue Group discussed the changes we expect to see when the HEARTH (Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing) Act goes into effect. The presentation from the discussion is available here.
The Corporation for Supportive Housing has published "Housing Credit Policies in 2009 that Promote Permanent Supportive Housing". The report provides a synopsis of 2009 Low Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plans (QAP) and describes the strategies used in different states to support the creation of supportive housing within the QAP – such as scoring incentives, set-asides and the use of thresholds. Tax credits have been an important source of capital financing for permanent supportive housing projects (PSH) for some time and the report describes how an increasing number of Housing Credit Agencies are also now using them to promote a diverse array of supportive housing models. These models range from projects with 100% of units dedicated for PSH, to projects with only a small proportion of units (10%) dedicated for supportive housing. Click here to read the full report.
On March 10, 2010, WUNC's "The State of Things" aired a program about prisoner re-entry. There are more than 40,000 prisoners inside North Carolina’s correctional facilities. Every year close to half of them are released into probation or parole. And while the infrastructure of incarceration is long standing and sturdy, the systems for ensuring a successful transition from prison to citizen are relatively new and arguably unsupported. The program discusses the obstacles to re-entry with: Christy Visher, professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware; Mark McDaniel, senior research associate at the Center for Community Capital at UNC-Chapel Hill; Tony Reggi, correctional planner with the N.C. Department of Corrections; Bob Crouch from the Executive Steering Committee of NCREAP; Cynthia Laws Davis, the program director of Passage Home in Raleigh; and Elizabeth Jaime, a graduate of Harriet’s House, …