ON THE STREET: FRIENDS OF THE MAN ON A BENCH.(TRIAD/STATE)

Publication: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)

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She proposes that it's never too late to help people with mental illness, no matter how far down the road they have traveled.

And if you visit Jodi Lorenzo-Schibley at Sanctuary House, a new day program she runs in downtown Greensboro, she might sell you on the idea.

In the looming shadow of North Carolina's mental health "reform" (some would say cutbacks), the reincarnation of the big white house at the corner of Fisher and North Elm is a welcome sign.

Unlike the familiar "day rooms" of the past, which gave people with mental illness little more than a place to watch TV and smoke, the clubhouse...

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