North Carolina Screening Process For Mental Illness Has Slowed Placements

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates North Carolina has reduced the number of people with severe mental illness being relegated to adult-care homes in the state, but in the process has made it harder for some people to get into such facilities when necessary. Social workers say delays caused by a screening system put in place in January – to ensure that people with mental illness are not moved into assisted living facilities when they could live more independently – actually could endanger some clients who are no longer able to live safely by themselves or with family and need new . . .