Wake County will lose ultimate control of its mental health services in the coming year. Instead of creating a new organization to manage mental health care in Wake County, human services personnel will spend the next few months merging with the Durham Center, the mental health management entity in Durham County. Story continues here >>>
"They say justice is blind. It must be to ignore the plight of the mentally ill in America’s prisons." So writes Matthew Mangino for thecrimereport.org in introducing the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s recent two-part series on mental illness and incarceration. In his editorial "America's 'Mental Health Gulag,'" Mr. Mangino points to North Carolina as well as other states as examples of less than humane treatment and solutions.
Wake County Loses Administrative Control of Mental Health Services | Raleigh Public Record
November 8, 2011
Wake OKs mental health merger – NewsObserver.com
November 8, 2011
RALEIGH — Thousands of people in the Triangle with mental health, developmental delay and substance abuse problems will get help from a managed-care agency that’s a joint project of Wake and Durham counties, if everything goes as planned. Story continues here >>>
Victim of eugenics: Scarred for life, as were thousands | Charlotte Observer
November 7, 2011
Janice Black’s crooked signature crawls across the consent form. She didn’t know what kind of paper she was signing. Her name was the only thing she knew how to write.
It was 1971. She was 18. Janice’s IQ had tested out at 44. Her estimated mental age was 7. Her family decided she wasn’t fit to raise children. Story continues here >>>
N.C. eugenics survivors prove elusive | Charlotte Observer
November 7, 2011
They were labeled unfit parents, promiscuous or simply feebleminded, then sent by the thousands to surgeons who ensured they would never have babies again – or never at all.
The records are interred in rows of gray boxes in a cold basement of the state archives, waiting for survivors of North Carolina’s eugenic sterilization program to step forward and claim them. Story continues here >>>
Psychiatric hospital to be built in Huntersville
November 7, 2011
HUNTERSVILLE – Carolinas HealthCare System last week was granted permission to build a 66-bed mental health hospital along N.C. 115.
Forrester remembered as a devoted servant – Gaston Gazette
November 7, 2011
STANLEY – Sen. Jim Forrester was remembered Sunday as an immigrant who lived the American dream by serving his state and nation and by being a devoted family man. Story continues here >>>
