Funding will help people who have been imprisoned more successfully reenter their communities

The state health department is investing more than $5 million in a program that helps people who have been imprisoned better reenter their communities. Officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the FIT Wellness program provides psychiatric and physical health care services and connections to community supports like housing, transportation and phones for people in the state prison system who have serious mental illness.

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