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The U.S. Justice Department has given North Carolina two more years to meet a requirement for placing 3,000 qualified individuals from adult-care homes into independent housing. The state Department of Health and Human Services now has until June 30, 2023, to complete a transition initiative ordered by Justice officials in 2012. The initiative is known as the Olmstead agreement. The moves are part of a court settlement spurred by claims made by Disability Rights NC in November 2010 that the state was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by placing individuals with mental illness into adult-care homes. Eligible to participate are people living in adult-care homes whose symptoms have been diagnosed as a serious and persistent mental illness, or those who have been in treatment for more than 90 days at a state hospital. ....
Cardinal Innovations officials are hopeful that an initiative designed to enhance youth behavioral-health services in Mecklenburg County will have a spillover effect in Forsyth County. Cardinal, based in Charlotte, oversees providers for mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities services for more than 800,000 North Carolinians utilizing federal and state Medicaid funds. Its network includes Alamance, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Stokes and Rockingham counties in the Triad. Nearly 25% of its network population is in Mecklenburg. Cardinal has relied the past three months on public relations campaigns in an attempt to keep its behavioral health oversight network intact as six of its 20 counties â including Forsyth and Mecklenburg â are in various stages of departure. Cabarrus, Orange, Stanly and Union have been on the same path. ....