North Carolina To Invest $5.5 Million More In Reentry Services For Justice-Involved Population With SMI  

North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will invest an additional $5.5 million into the FIT Wellness program, which offers services to people in the state prison system with serious mental illness (SMI). FIT Wellness is part of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition (FIT) Program in the UNC School of Medicine, which aims to improve reentry services for the justice-involved population.  

FIT Wellness offers psychiatric and physical health care services, in addition to facilitating connections with community supports including housing, transportation, and phones. DHHS said that since 2020, it has created or expanded 23 . . .