We have been hearing much about the proposed health care changes from the Obama administration over the past few months. Whatever the outcome, one thing is certain – the health care industry in Henderson County plays a critical role in both the quality of life for our residents and the vitality of our local economy.
As legislators finish work on a budget that almost surely won’t contain enough money to correct the state’s failed overhaul of its mental health-care system, they should consider how much the broken system endangers both the mentally ill and the people who battle endless red tape as they try to help them. Just ask Cpl. Lori Gortman of the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.
Includes providing mental health services.
Morganton - Burke County Public Schools has won a federal grant that will bring the district $5.8 million over the coming four years.
Superintendent David Burleson said the “Safe Schools/Healthy Students” grant — a longtime goal of his — “will have some impact on all 14,000 children in the school system.”
Starting next school year, all children entering kindergarten in Wilson County Schools will take a skills test to determine what extra help or interventions are needed to help them be successful in a regular class.
When I walked into the Weavil house Thursday evening, Max Weavil III broke into a wide smile of welcome.
That’s about as far as his communication skills go. At 24 years old, he suffers from a severe developmental disability. Family members’ lives revolve around caring for him.
Construction of a nine-bed substance abuse treatment facility for adolescents in Burgaw could start by summer’s end.
The Pender County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously this month to apply for a $144,000 rural health care initiative grant on behalf of PORT Human Services.
“Nothing’s worse than seeing someone else’s trash from where they slept,” said Ryan Brandon, a Wilmington police officer who set out on a hot June morning for a special assignment at Greenfield Lake Park.
Brandon and fellow officer Ed Fritz dressed in plain clothes and were part of a larger group of officers commissioned to fan out and make sure people were abiding by park rules.
Order slowly being restored to the NC Mental Hope website (see “Einstein on Stupidity” to the right). Fortunately, as with any rebuilding (well, being a mental health advocate, one would have to say “most” rebuilding), you learn new techniques that help build a better structure. Stay tuned.
Video – Perdue keeps pushing for state revenueRALEIGH, N.C. — With state budget negotiations at a stalemate and lawmakers gone home for the weekend, Gov. Bev Perdue says she’s hopeful the General Assembly will reach an agreement soon on how to raise more money.
“We’ll have a budget. It may take us 10 days longer than I want it too,” she said Friday. “But at the end of the day, it’s all going to work out, and we’ll have a revenue stream.”
On a spring day in 2006, as the sun set on the Duke University campus in North Carolina, novelist Kaye Gibbons strode across the lawn. She had just finished speaking at the Festival of the Book, and two of her three daughters trailed behind her. A bevy of fans awaited her book signing.
“She looks like a rock star,” said festival organizer Aaron Greenwald.
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