The state’s hospitals, businesses, advocacy groups and professional associations sent up an SOS on mental health this week, asking in an open letter for Gov. Roy Cooper and legislative leaders to create a bipartisan plan for improving North Carolina’s mental health system.
The state’s mental health system has been troubled for years, but the letter to Cooper, House Speaker Tim Moore, and Senate leader Phil Berger says it is getting worse.
The NC Healthcare Association, which represents hospitals, the NC Chamber, the associations for doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, Disability Rights NC, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, and NAMI NC said in their letter that North Carolina is facing “a second public health crisis: skyrocketing demand for mental health services in an environment where it can’t meet the escalating needs for treatment. Quite simply, the behavioral health crisis across North Carolina has reached a state of emergency, and w
Below are details of the $56 million allocated to CMS:
$56 million is conditionally allocated to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and can be expended once the district provides an educational attainment plan to the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners that articulates the district’s plan for the spending of County dollars to address gaps in educational attainment. The plan should include quantifiable goals, strategies, targets, and timeframes to:
Improve the performance of the 42 low performing schools within the school district
Improve performance scores and grades for all individual disaggregated subgroups including economically disadvantaged students and students from major racial and ethnic groups
Ensure that that at least 75% of students within all demographic subgroups graduate with at least one State endorsement by the end of the 2024 school year