List of Outreach Resources and Contact Info
Air Care
UNC Carolina Air Care was officially formed in 1986. We currently offer an adult and pediatric transport team. We have two helicopters located in Chapel Hill and Fayetteville and a dedicated 24/7 pediatric transport team with a specialized pediatric ambulance. You locate Air Care on the 8th floor of the Neurosciences Hospital. Come up to the 8th floor get off the elevators and pick up the phone to call in and we will let you in the door
Contact: Dan Cheek 966-8727 \
Autism Society of North Carolina
505 Oberlin Road, Suite 230, Raleigh, NC
Contact: Linda Griffin, Parent Advocate Director
Phone: 919-865-5090
http://www.autismsociety-nc.org/
Camp Carefree
Camp Carefree. 275 Carefree Lane, Stokesdale, NC
Contact: Anne Jones (336) 427-0966
Hazel Sheppard: (919) 967-1419
Med Shed: (336) 427-6140
http://www.campcarefree.org/
Carrboro Community Health
301 Lloyd Street, Carrboro. Building will be on left. First big entrance is for the corporate offices. Pass that and go to larger parking lot and go through smaller public entrance. At front desk, ask receptionist to page Becky.
Bilingual Children's Resource Coordination
Contact: Becky Thompson, Coordinator (919) 942-8741 X 1237
http://www.piedmonthealth.org/english/carrboro.htm
Chapel Hill Fire Department
Fire Station # 2, 1003 South Hamilton Road. Chapel Hill
Contact: Mary Lee Tyndall (919) 968-2781
Car seat clinics every Saturday from 2-5 pm
Child Fatality Task Force Meeting
North Carolina General Assembly, Legislative Building, 16 West Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27601 919-733-7928
Child Life and Recreational Therapy at UNC
7th Floor NC Children's Hospital, Children’s Playroom
Contact: Beth Bailey 966-4775 or pager: 123-4894
http://www.unchealthcare.org/site/rectherapy?searchterm=Child+Life
Duke Child Abuse and Neglect Clinic, Multidisciplinary Meeting (CAMART)-
Durham Courthouse, 201 E. Main Street, Durham, NC
Meeting starts at 1:15
District Attorney's Office, 6th Floor
Contact: Scott Snider, LCSW (919) 479-2694 or
Durham CDSA
115 Market Street, Suite 201, Durham, NC 27701
Contact: Sherra Vance
Phone: 919-560-5600
You will be going to families' homes to observe entry level evaluations for early intervention services.
Please read about early intervention in North Carolina before observing at the CDSA.
http://www.ncei.org/ei/itp.html
North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children: www.ncaeyc.org
Women's and Children's Health Section:
http://ncdhhs.gov/dph/wch/families/index.htm
Family Advocacy Network, MHA of the Triangle
3729 Murphy School Road, Durham, NC 27705
Contact: Julie Bailey, Program Director
Phone: 919-942-8083, ext.2
Workshops on various topics regarding Childhood and young adult mental health.
www.mhatriangle.org
Gateway Education Center, 3205 E. Wendover Ave, Greensboro, NC
GatewayEducationCenteris anationally recognized school, which serves children with disabilities from
birth to age 22. Eligibility is determined for Guilford County residents through IEP team decisions. Gateway is home
to the Greensboro Cerebral Palsy Association's Infant Toddler Program, an early intervention program focused upon
the needs of children birth to three years of age.
Contact: Linda Mixson Lyon
(336) 375-2575
http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com
Guardian Ad Litem (Court on Thursdays)
501 W. Franklin Street, Suite 104, Chapel Hill
Contact: Maria Martin
(919) 968-2088
Chapel Hill Court: Orange County Court, 179 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill.
in Post Office Building at corner of Franklin and Henderson in Chapel Hill.
Pittsboro Court:
The new judicial center is in downtown Pittsboro, just past the center of town. The address is 40 E. Chatham Street. Drive around the traffic circle at the center of town, and then the judicial center will be the large new building on the left. There is plenty of parking. The courtroom is 2A, on the second floor.
http://www.nccourts.org/Citizens/GAL/
Hospice of Randolph County
Be at the office around 9:00 at the Hospice of Randolph County, address is 416 Vision Drive, Asheboro.
You will meet with Michelle Pendleton, RN and go on home visits with her. Her email is and her cell phone is 336-963-5949.
Josh’s Hope Foundation
200 Cardinal Drive, Suite B, Hillsborough, NC 27278
Contact: Steve Bailey, Executive Director
Phone: (919) 245-0072
Provides community programs which help improve family relationships and also provides vocational training to young adults with mental health issues so they might gain independent life skills to support their transitioning success. We partner with other community stakeholders to identify gaps and create opportunities which fulfill program goals.
http://www.joshshopefoundation.org
Kids Path (Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro)
2504 Summit Avenue, Greensboro, NC
Kids Path is a specialized program for children living with serious, progressive medical conditions. In addition, Kids Path provides support for children and youth experiencing the grief associated with the illness or death of a loved one.
Contact: Marion Taylor, NP- Director
Phone: (336) 621-2500
Website: http://www.kidspath.com
Mental Health of America -the Triangle
3729 Murphy School Rd.
Durham, NC 27705
919.942.8083 (phone)
919.869.1938 (fax)
http://mhatriangle.org/
Contact: Julie Bailey
919.942.8083
Pastoral Care
Meet Hadley Kifner, Pediatric Chaplain at the Children's Chapel on the Ground Floor of Memorial Hospital
The chaplains in Pastoral Care work with people of all faiths and religious backgrounds. They are available to help you draw upon the healing power of faith during your stay in the hospital. The John M. Reeves All Faiths Chapel is located on the 1st floor, main hospital and is open at all times for prayer and meditation. An interdenominational service is held in the chapel on Sunday mornings at 10:30 for patients, families and visitors. If you are unable to attend, you can still see the service by turning your TV to channel 7 at this time. If you have an immediate need, a chaplain is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call 966-4021 if you have any questions or needs.
SAFEchild NC,
2815 Kidd Road, Raleigh
Multidisciplinary Team Meeting includes supportive representatives from Wake County Department of Social Services, Wake County Law Enforcement, Wake County District Attorney’s Office, Wake County Sex Abuse Response Team, Wake County Area Hospitals, collaborative mental health agencies or private mental health practitioners, Wake County Public Schools and Wake County Guardian Ad Litem Program.
Discussions include case review and case recommendations, mental health issues, services needed and next steps.
Contact: Cristin DeRonja, M.Ed, LPC, NCC (919) 231-5515
Please read about SAFEchild NC on their website at
http://www.safechildnc.org/
Directions: SAFEchild NC is housed in a ranch-style house behind Wake Med Hospital off of New Bern Avenue. (You might want to Mapquest or GPS). There is a big blue and green sign in the yard that says,
“SAFEchild Advocacy Center”.
Multidisciplinary Meetings on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month from 9 to 11or 12.
Child evaluations on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
SHAC Clinic (Saturday Children’s Clinics), Carrboro, NC
SHAC Clinic, 301 Lloyd Street, Carrboro, NC
http://www.med.unc.edu/shac
Social Skills Group at Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
101 Renee Lynne Court, Carrboro, NC 27510
http://can.unc.edu/images/uploads/SocialSkills_brochure.pdf
The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities Social Skills Clinic is a group-based intervention designed to help adolescents and young adults improve their social skills. Topics covered include how to make and keep friends, navigating social situations, and expressing emotions. Because the sessions rely on back-and-forth between participants, participants must have fluent speech (i.e., be able to communicate in complete sentences). The class is open to those with a formal diagnosis that impacts their social abilities, including Social Anxiety Disorder, Asperger's, Autism, AD/HD, as well as to those who simply wish to improve their social skills. Sessions will have up to 10 participants and be led by two therapists. Sessions will be supervised by a licensed clinical psychologist with specialized training in social skills education. Sessions will last one hour and will run for 8 weeks.
UNC Child Evaluation Clinic (Only Wednesdays and Fridays)
UNC Child Evaluation Clinic (Child Abuse and Neglect), General Pediatric
Clinic, Exam room #8
Contact: Patrice Patterson-Garlington, LCSW with Beacon Program (919) 966-9314
Check the links before uploading them to make sure they work! I cut and pasted right from the article. Can only work from UNC computer b/c of access issues.
Child Sexual Abuse
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/116/2/506
Child Physical Abuse
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/119/6/1232?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&volume=119&firstpage=1232&resourcetype=HWCIT
Domestic Violence Exposure:
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;125/5/1094.pdf
Drug Exposed Infants
http://www.mdconsult.com/das/article/body/207141557-5/jorg=clinics&source=MI&sp=&sid=/N/693959/s0031395509000078.pdf?issn=0031-3955
Abusive Head Trauma: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/pubmed/19403508
UNC Pediatric Feeding Team with Speech, GI and Nutrition
You will meet with Krisi Brackett, SLP at her office a little before 9:00. Her office is on the back hallway of
the specialty clinics. Her door is right next to the painting on the wall of the lion. You will observe a visit with a patient who is receiving feeding therapy.
Contact: Krisi Brackett
Pager # 123-8410
http://www.unchealthcare.org/site/hospital_depts/speech/Pediatricspeech