No one would argue that North Carolina’s decade-long effort to reform and rebuild its mental health services delivery system has gone well. That reform effort came about after a U.S. Supreme Court decision called for states to treat more of the mentally ill and mentally disabled in their home communities. A 1999 study of the state’s mental health system, overseen by then-State Auditor Ralph Campbell, reached the same conclusion.
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