A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY, TO PROVIDE ONGOING SUPPORT FOR THE SCHIZOPHRENIA TREATMENT AND EVALUATION (STEP) PROGRAM AND THE OUTREACH AND SUPPORT INTERVENTION SERVICES (OASIS) PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000).  These funds shall be used as follows:
(1)	Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) shall be used to provide: (i) support for the University of North Carolina Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, (ii) training for the next generation of psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, and nurses to address the current workforce crisis, (iii) statewide training and consultation in evidence‑based practices, and (iv) ongoing support for the Department of Psychiatry's Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program (STEP) clinic.
(2)	Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) shall be used to provide bridge funding and ongoing support for the Outreach and Support Intervention Services (OASIS) Program, a statewide program providing targeted, intense interventions to individuals in the early stages of schizophrenia when chronicity and disability may be most preventable. Funds shall be used to support OASIS as foundation support ends, allowing OASIS to transition to funding through private insurance, Medicaid, State appropriations for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, and other funding streams.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2010.