STEP Research Clinic provides state-of-the-art clinical treatment to patients at any stage of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, or other serious mental illness. Patients may also choose to volunteer in approved research studies to advance knowledge and improve treatment options for these serious mental illnesses.
OASIS provides services to adolescents and young adults who are experiencing early psychosis, or who are at risk for developing psychosis. Crucial to the program's success is its ability to forge productive and mutually beneficial partnerships with researchers in the field of mental health across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Learn more about specific research programs at the UNC Psychiatry website.
Although many people with mental illness are artists, musicians, writers, or otherwise gifted individuals (famous or not), they have those talents in spite of the illness, not because of it. Some people don't discover their talent, or have the time to develop it, until they become ill. But chances are they would have been creative even if they had not become ill. This doesn't mean their work is unaffected by their illness; because how prolific the work is, the themes it covers, or the media chosen may, in fact, be affected by the illness. But the myth that mental illness is the gateway to creativity doesn't hold up under scientific scrutiny.
Founded in January 2009, the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health is part of the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Addressing quality of care and workforce development issues in North Carolina's mental health system, the Center and its clinical programs are supported by a three-year grant from The Duke Endowment, as well as Cross Area Services Program (CASP)
funds. The program operates in conjunction with multiple university, state, and community-based partners.
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