“I didn’t know Coastal Horizons Center did that.”
That’s the response I frequently get when I tell people about Coastal Horizons Center, Inc. (CHC). In fact, some of you reading now may never have even heard of CHC. And that’s OK, too.
In part that’s because we’re located a little off the beaten path – off of Shipyard Boulevard, close to Carolina Beach Road – in a series of brick buildings in the Willie Stargell Office Park. That we are sometimes unseen or passed by seems no small irony considering the work we do and the people we serve.
As southeastern North Carolina’s leading provider of evidence-based professional services for people suffering from a wide range of physical, sexual, mental and behavioral health conditions and diseases, CHC serves those with wounds and injuries sometimes not easily seen or noticed. They’re often wounds of the mind and soul resulting from past physical/sexual abuse or mental/behavioral health issues which are just as deserving and responsive to treatment as someone with a broken arm, appendicitis or cancer.
Still, persons afflicted with these kinds of wounds often face stigmatization and marginalization because they or their conditions are wrongly considered untreatable. That’s simply not the truth; data and evidence bear that out.
So, what is CHC?
CHC is:
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