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Kelly Crosbie, MSW, LCSW
Director, DMH/DD/SUS
| | Hot Topics | May 20, 2025 | | |
Inclusion Works Provider Innovation Program
Now Accepting Applications
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The Inclusion Works Provider Innovation Program is an opportunity for I/DD Employment Service Providers in NC to expand competitive integrated employment. Providers will receive personalized tools and technical assistance at no cost and $75,000 in financial incentives for participating.
To be eligible for this program, you must be an Employment Service Provider Agency currently offering non-CIE jobs to individuals with I/DD. Applications are being accepted through Saturday, May 31, 2025. Please reach out to Claire Colligan with any questions.
| | DMH/DD/SUS Team Members Participate in NAMIWalks | | |
The DMH/IDD/SUS NAMIWalks team joined over one hundred other teams for the 2025 NAMIWalks North Carolina fundraiser over the weekend. More than 1200 participants collectively raised over $140,000 by walking one or two miles at Perimeter Park in Morrisville. Over 25 staff members joined our team, Together4MentalHealth, including DMH/DD/SUS Director Kelly Crosbie.
NAMIWalks is NAMI's oldest signature fundraising program and is held each year in May during National Mental Health Awareness Month. Over 190 community Walks are presented by NAMI State Organizations and NAMI Affiliates from coast to coast to raise awareness, funds and hope for individuals with mental illness, their loved ones and their communities.
| | The Brain Injury Association of NC requests your input to identify gaps and needs in brain injury services across North Carolina. Your feedback will help BIANC identify unmet needs, improve programs, and advocate for stronger support across the state. Submit your anonymous survey through Saturday, May 31 2025. | | | To encourage more health care providers to serve in rural areas, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is offering the opportunity for educational loan repayments. This program, known as the North Carolina Primary Care Physician Incentive, is available to qualifying physicians committed to delivering high-quality, comprehensive care in independent private practices in certain rural counties. | | Learn More About What's Happening in Your Community | | | NC Medicaid Hosts Webinar on Recently Renewed 1115 Waiver | | |
Join NC Medicaid for a webinar about the recently renewed 1115 waiver. The new waiver extends federal approval for North Carolina’s Medicaid Managed Care program and its efforts to improve access to evidence-based substance use disorder treatments. It also allows the option for the Healthy Opportunities Pilots, which invest in non-medical drivers of health like food and housing, to be taken statewide.
North Carolina now has the option to implement additional new initiatives, in line with the State’s overarching goals, focused on streamlining Medicaid enrollment for children and youth, improving care for the reentry population, investing in behavioral health and intellectual and development disabilities (I/DD) technology and bolstering the behavioral health and long term services and supports (LTSS) workforce.
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Join Link: Join the webinar
| | Milbank Quarterly Webinar: Medicaid’s Role in Substance Use Treatment and Policy Innovation | | |
Medicaid is the largest payer for mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery supports in the United State. Although Medicaid innovations have expanded access to treatment and improved care quality, challenges remain.
Join us for a Milbank Quarterly webinar focused on two articles about Medicaid's role in mental health and SUD from our special issue, Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges Facing the United States: What Can State Policymakers Do? The issue’s co-editor, Beth McGinty of Weill Cornell Medical College, will moderate the discussion with the articles' authors and DMH/DD/SUS Director Kelly Crosbie.
Date/Time: Thursday, May 22, 2025, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Registration: Register for the webinar
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The North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Veterans' Health Task Force Kick-Off
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Join the NC Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) and DMH/DD/SUS Director Kelly Crosbie to learn about an upcoming NCIOM task force on Veterans' health and connect with those who serve NC's Veterans and their families. The task force will identify actions to improve the access and experience of care in community-based health care settings for those who have served in the military, their families, and caregivers. With support from the NCDHHS DMH/DD/SUS and NC AARP, NCIOM will be convening the task force from Summer 2025 to Spring 2026. A final report with task force recommendations will be published by Fall 2026.
Date/Time: Thursday, May 22, 2025, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: 3700 NC Highway 54 West, Chapel Hill, NC
Registration: Register for the Kick-Off Meeting
More Information: Visit the Task Force website
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NAMI at Noon: Maintaining Mental Wellness through
Workplace Uncertainty, Chaos and Change
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Join the National Alliance on Mental Illness-North Carolina for an important, insightful conversation with Kelly Crosbie, Director of the NC Division for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Disorders. We’ll discuss how managers and executives can set a positive and empathetic tone during times of stress, steps employers can take to ease difficult transitions, and how employees can protect and care for their own mental wellness.
Date/Time: Thursday, May 29, 2025, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Registration: Register for the webinar
| | NASDDDS Features NCDHHS Accessible Communications Campaign During New Communication Affinity Group Meeting | | |
Join the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services for the new Communication Affinity meeting to explore optimizing communication despite barriers and engage of communities in our work.
The inaugural meeting will feature NCDHHS DMH/DD/SUS External Affairs Director Charles Rousseau for a discussion about the Department's Accessible Communications Campaign. Part of this campaign included recently releasing the 1915(i) and Innovations Waiver toolkits and updating the DMH/DD/SUS website.
Date/Time: Thursday, May 29, 2025, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Registration: Register for the webinar
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DMH/DD/SUS Hosts Spring i2i Pre-Conference Session
Advancing the Olmstead Plan: One Goal, Many Partners
| | People with disabilities deserve choice and inclusion in all areas of their lives. You are invited to join us for a dynamic and informative discussion about how North Carolina’s Olmstead Plan is advancing choice and inclusion for all. | | | |
The discussion features people with lived experience, providers, and state leaders. It is part of a special i2i Center for Integrative Health pre-conference forum that covers changes at the state and national level.
Pre-Conference Date/Time: Monday, June 9, 2025, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Pre-Conference Information: Download the event flyer
Conference Date: June 10-11, 2025
Location: Hilton Raleigh North Hills, 3415 Wake Forest Rd, Raleigh, NC
Registration: Register for the conference
More Information: Visit the conference website
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