This week’s Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Thava Mahadevan!
Mahadevan is director of operations at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and a clinical instructor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, and also founder of XDS, Inc., a nonprofit providing care and services to individuals with persistent mental illness, and founder of the UNC PAWS program, a peer-assisted wellness service that trains rescue dogs as support dogs for people with disabilities. Mahadevan is currently working at the forefront of an initiative to build and support a community of tiny homes in Chatham County providing sustainable permanent and affordable supportive housing for people affected by serious mental illness.
Listen to this week’s Hometown Hero segment below, and check in next week for another recognition of someone who is making a difference in our community! Do you have someone who you’d like to nominate as a Hometown Hero? Click here to let us know about the good they’re doing around town!
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