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NC expands funding to help college students fighting substance use disorders

North Carolina has awarded over $3 million to support recovery programs for college students with substance use disorders. 

The grants were announced by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services earlier this month.

The intent is to support Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPs), which provide services for students battling substance use disorders. CRPs also foster drug and alcohol-free environments and activities for young adults on campus and help provide peer mentorships.

According to a news release, NCDHHS has been prioritizing CRPs since 2015 and has supported programs in 13 of the state’s 17 universities in the UNC system.

The latest round of federal funding will benefit nine schools around the state, including new programs at High Point and Elon Universities. Grants will also help expand existing CRPs at UNC Greensboro and Appalachian State University.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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