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A chance conversation with a customer who was a rehabilitation counselor while Hailey Morris worked at a local coffee shop in South Carolina spurred her desire to pursue the profession and to consider graduate school. Today, Morris is a first-year student in the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health...

Young adults from the Triangle with intellectual disabilities experienced an inaugural week-long skills camp in July tailored to support them as they transition to adulthood thanks to an interdisciplinary University collaboration called the Higher Education, Employment, Living Success (HEELS UP) Summer Intensive. The program is part of the recently established...

Thava Mahadevan ’92 is the director of operations for the ºÚÁÏÍø Center of Excellence for Community in Mental Health and the director of the Farm at Penny Lane, which takes on a unique, holistic approach to mental health care. Mahadevan graduated from the then program in rehabilitation counseling at the...

Mariel Marshall, a second-year student in the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, has received a Diversity Award from the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion at ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill. The award recognizes people who have furthered diversity, equity, and inclusion at Carolina and in the community. “I always...

Uzma Khan, a first-year graduate student in the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, received second place recognition alongside her team at the annual CLARION National Case Competition, a student-run program at the University of Minnesota dedicated to improving health care through interprofessional collaboration and leadership. Khan, an...

Alex Cooke is a first-year graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling who also serves as the captain for ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill’s track and field team. Cooke, who is from Surry County, North Carolina, joined the track and field team five years...

U.S. News & World Report’s methodologists have ranked the ºÚÁÏÍø’s master’s program in rehabilitation counseling as #9 in the country, a ranking that secures the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling as a top-ten program among peer institutions nationwide.  Eileen Burker, PhD, CRC, and the...

Learn more about the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling in this online booklet.

Two students from the Department of Allied Health Sciences will represent the ºÚÁÏÍø at the annual CLARION case competition, an initiative dedicated to improving health care through interprofessional education and hosted by the University of Michigan. Kripa Ahuja, a junior who has nearly completed her first year...

The ºÚÁÏÍø Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health has been awarded a $2.4-million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The project will address homelessness and provide comprehensive behavioral health care and other services for individuals living with serious mental illnesses who are experiencing or...