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good morning everyone! Ericka Ellis-Stewart (Mental Health America of Central Carolinas) - Charlotte, NC

Tinger and Stanley Purvis -Word Tabernacle Church Rocky Mount

Welcome everyone!

Great to see so many of our Mental Health and Well-Being cohort team members (including Dr. Luka Smith!! To learn more about our six community initiatives, visit: https://iei.ncsu.edu/reconnectnc/reconnect-to-move-forward/communities/

Trust, relationships, leadership...how El Futuro is supporting their community

That's such a good point to look for the community leaders that sometimes get overlooked

Understanding that leaders in communities don't always look or operate like our institutions have traditionally defined them. it's about finding bridges.

Page Lemel, Transylvania County Commissioner

open access to services

supporting emerging leaders

Is there a list of low barrier, no barrier providers across the state?

*mental health

peer support and peer led groups

24/7 access and support

Susan safety first! The main parts of this session (not the breakouts) will be recorded

extra work on the “front end”, culturally appropriate, empathetic, and compassionate support

Survivor-led communities....know the role of trauma in all of this

Yes! We are not serving people with deficits we are serving people who have been living through historical, present and the expectation of future trauma.

Integrated care models increase access AND normalize mental health care?

Yes. We must be explicit about ask about impacts of the multiple pandemics

Thanks to the panel for starting with certain specific topics and moving to how they are all related. Food insecurity is related to mental illness. Stress does related to physical and mental health.

Helping people to understand that our response to what is going on with our mind and body are many times natural responses-this helps to normalize

Kids on calls are my favorite!!

Yes, Yvette. Indeed.

News, social media... Sentiment analysis of Twitter demonstrates collective trauma - lowest point a few days after George Wallace was killed

I have also stopped looking at the news. It’s too much.

We have a certain idea of what mental illness looks like and when someone doesn't "look" depressed/anxious/etc. they often go overlooked and I believe that is why it is so important for primary care doctors to ask those questions of mood, etc, like Dr. Smith is doing to catch those who may slip by us.

Be curious, ask questions...while it may look like one thing--there are so many other things beneath the surface

Eating disorders long under control are being triggered by the pandemic: https://iei.ncsu.edu/podcasts/firstinfuture221/

quality support and supervision at work

Peer networks have been wonderful in providing that kind of support as well

yes, we have enough workers when we consider our peers, lay health people, and community institutions

invest in peer support and community health workers, and provide a network of support around them

Credential and *pay* peer supports for their expertise

Yes, Andy Shoenig - retweet

Amazing work Cherene!

hungry and thirsty for peer support and peer led, creative, culturally appropriate, community programming

Charlotte is also the wealthiest community in North Carolina--how do we resource this away from NC's higher-resource areas?

We need more peer support in the eastern part of the state- paid positions supported by the LME/MCO and their providers.

Yes Wendy - the Beaufort County Behavioral Health Network has been discussing this need

A great resource for those working with the Latino/a/x community is La Mesita https://elfuturo-nc.org/training-and-research/la-mesita-latino-mental-health-provider-network/ A great upcoming ECHO series on Somatization to explore the mind-body connection will begin next Friday

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IEI's BAND-NC program is working on this critical issue...

And the DHHS SCOOP initiative is a great place to point people: https://files.nc.gov/ncdhhs/SCOOP-Hope4NC_Flyer.pdf

Yes - the broadband gaps are great - thanks for brining this up

My husband sits on Central Region CFAC, Trillium board and is a certified peer support specialist and has been for years. He is currently considering trying to work as a peer support in a paid position; but we have been hesitant because of the lack of support for peer services in the east up to now. He does peer support as a community service and to help those around him. I work for the school system and we are trying to provide better mental health services to our students and adults.

Awesome analogy to broadband and transpartation

transportation

Great random thoughts - yes - solve problems directly

That is a good point that some community resources are fragmented.

Yes we have to meet people where they are! Great comment Dr. Smith

Strong, sustantive panel!

+1 Listen

Well stated Cherene.

Great point Cherene :)

Our organization-United Providers of Health, is currently implementing Programs and service in the Rural areas of NC with the local Providers and community base organizations in Eastern Nc and has been over the past few years couple of years. this is our Mission and why we formed the organization years ago because the lack of Mental Health and telehealth programs.

thank you so much for having me- so inspired by your work!

Full agenda: https://go.ncsu.edu/iei-agenda-mh

Great discussion, thank you.

Great panel!