Mental Health Archives

A self-advocacy checklist for people with disabilities and families Why Discharge Planning Matters When you leave a…

Posted in Jan 2026

Students may come home from school with unexplained injuries. Sometimes a bruise is not suspicious—children fall, bump…

Posted in Apr 2025

The ADA Protects the Right of People with Opioid Use Disorder to Receive Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in Jails…

Posted in Dec 2024

What is TCL? In North Carolina, people diagnosed with serious mental illness are sometimes placed in institutions (like…

Posted in Sep 2024

As a person receiving treatment in the emergency department, you have rights. A hospital must protect and promote each…

Posted in Aug 2024

People with disabilities are increasingly finding themselves within North Carolina’s prisons, jails, and juvenile…

Posted in Jul 2024

When you have an Opioid Use or Substance Use Disorder, it can be hard to find the help that you need. DRNC has developed a…

Posted in Jul 2023

Learn more about the services that must be provided to Medicaid eligible children who are dually diagnosed with I/DD and…

Posted in Nov 2022

Involuntary commitment (IVC) is when a person is put into a mental health facility against their will, or without their…

Posted in May 2022

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