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Good morning, readers.
Almost exactly a year ago, hundreds of Latino residents of Orange County came together at a public accountability assembly in Chapel Hill to speak on the importance of mental health services for Spanish-speaking residents.
The effort paid off: at the end of the assembly, Alliance Health—a private managed care organization whose predecessor had denied Medicaid reimbursements to undocumented immigrants—responded with a $500,000 donation to El Futuro, Orange County’s only bilingual language clinic.
Since then, as the INDY reported Monday, El Futuro has used the money to fund and launch its first ever community health initiative, Mentes Fuertes, which offers free therapeutic sessions to Latino adults in Orange County who have symptoms of anxiety or depression.
As of last month, the initiative had enrolled 48 participants and carried out more than 200 sessions.
“You use all your tools and all your knowledge to try to carry your emotions, and you say, ‘I can, I can, I can,’” Diana Huerta, a Hillsborough resident who participated in the advocacy effort that led to the creation of Mentes Fuertes, told the INDY. “But you can’t if you need help.”
Have a good Wednesday.
—Lena
Durham
Letters: Readers respond to Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam’s letter criticizing Congresswoman Valerie Foushee’s trip to Israel.
NC Central University has renamed a dorm on campus to honor former chancellor Debra Saunders-White.
Wake
More than 40 homeless residents in Wake County were ordered to leave an encampment located on a state-owned lot at the intersection of Highways 401 and U.S. 70 or face arrest.
Orange
The Southern Student Action Coalition, a student activist group, filed a complaint with the NC Attorney General’s Office against the UNC System Board of Governors for allegedly denying students and the public access to a public meeting where the board passed a motion to vote on the repeal of the UNC System’s DEI policies.
Chapel Hill Transit won a statewide safety award for its record of avoiding preventable accidents.
North Carolina
The NC General Assembly’s short legislative session begins today.
Today’s weather
Partly sunny with a high of 70 degrees, a chance of rain.
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