Naloxone Near Me is the first website to compile sources of available no-cost and pharmacy-based naloxone in one place. Naloxone is a medication that is highly effective at reversing opioid overdoses. Individuals visiting the website can select any county in North Carolina and find sources of no-cost naloxone and whether pharmacies sell naloxone in that county. The website also includes a link to Naloxone Saves, which directs people to specific locations where they can access naloxone.

“I hope Naloxone Near Me helps counties identify where they can improve naloxone access so they can better advocate for funding to eliminate access gaps,” said Delesha Carpenter, professor and executive vice chair in Eshelman’s division of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy. “That’s the main goal with the website: to help counties identify specific ways they can improve access to naloxone.”

The school started this process in 2023 when they received funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health to create a novel place-based measure of naloxone availability. Researchers started with a survey of organizations who were distributing no-cost naloxone. Then, they obtained access to Medicaid and Medicare prescription claims data and conducted “secret shopper” studies of pharmacies to see if they had over-the-counter naloxone in stock.

Having naloxone can help in situations where people may witness an overdose.

“People mistakenly think they’re safe if they are using nonopioid substances, like cocaine, but opioids like fentanyl are often mixed into these drugs, so it’s important to have naloxone on hand to reverse an overdose,” said Carpenter. “It’s good to have naloxone available if you’re going to be around somebody who is using basically any kind of drug because if they do overdose and you then administer naloxone, it’s very effective at reversing overdoses and preventing death.”

Pharmacy-based distribution of naloxone has been shown to reduce overdose deaths, so it’s important that pharmacies sell naloxone, especially in areas where other opioid overdose prevention services are unavailable. In addition to selling naloxone, pharmacies can partner with community-based organizations to distribute naloxone for free.

“I think, for the state of North Carolina, this can be a trickle-down effect that can benefit everybody,” said Carpenter.

The school hopes to continue updating the website annually and is seeking funding to keep the site updated, since new sources of naloxone are coming online every month.

The Carolina Hunger Initiative, a grant- and donor-funded operation housed within the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, directs projects and initiatives spanning the Tar Heel State.

“Our mission is to create greater access to federally funded meals,” said Lou Anne Crumpler, CHI’s director.

Here are five things to know about CHI’s work.

1. It’s called Carolina home for over a decade.

CHI, initially named No Kid Hungry North Carolina, began in 2011 with Gov. Beverly Perdue. When Perdue left office, Crumpler needed a new home for the program.

In Carolina, she found a world-class institution with expertise and a focus on statewide service.

“We knew if we had an institutional home and the strength of the reputation of UNC and the seriousness of being at a university, we’d be better off than trying to start a nonprofit,” Crumpler said.

Forming connections with UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health faculty like HPDP director Alice Ammerman and Jessica Soldavini, a research specialist, bolstered the CHI’s work.

“We have an impact on people all over North Carolina who may never step foot on campus but benefit from the work that we do that is supported and promoted by the University,” Crumpler said.

2. Its work leads to results.

CHI works on several projects, including a partnership with the state called SUN Bucks, delivering more than $257 million in two years to families to help feed children during summer months.

CHI also co-leads the School Meals for All N.C. Coalition, which uses data to educate legislators and the public. As a result, the state legislature voted to expand the number of students eligible for free school lunches via a reduced-price copay.

“We see it as an incremental step toward school meals for all,” said Andrew Harrell, program and communication manager at CHI. “We play the education and data role in this advocate world.”

3.  It’s working to curb hunger among college students.

More than 22% of college students don’t know where their next meal is coming from, Harrell said. More than two-thirds of the ones eligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka SNAP) aren’t enrolled.

Earlier this year, CHI created the NC College Food Benefits website, where students can learn if they’re eligible and get connected with resources.

4. Carolina students play a role.

CHI gets plenty of support from Carolina interns, primarily Gillings students. They do everything: help run nutrition education programs, build communications toolkits and turn raw data into dashboards for advocacy and planning.

Two former student assistants are now part of CHI’s full-time staff of nine.

5. CHI’s presence is felt statewide.

The group’s work spans all 100 North Carolina counties and includes partnerships with each school district.

CHI hosts the annual N.C. Child Hunger Leaders Conference, usually held in Chapel Hill but moving to Asheville in 2026. The conference brings together nutrition professionals, representatives from food banks and state agencies, educators and community partners to share successes, tools, feedback and inspiration while learning how to best coordinate across sectors.

CHI also co-hosts SummerPalooza, all-day events in the western, central and eastern parts of the state. The events celebrate the hard work done to provide meals to kids at no cost to families when school is out — and remind communities that CHI is there to help.

“We co-present with the state agency and make it very clear to any organization that we are there to be your extra staff,” said Tamara Baker, CHI’s project and communications director.

Barbara Stephenson, vice provost for global affairs and chief global officer,  and Heather Ward, associate provost for global affairs, joined state officials and industry leaders in Tokyo for the 47th annual Southeast U.S./Japan Conference, Oct. 27–31. The North Carolina delegation was led by Gov. Josh Stein and organized by Lee Lilley ’06, North Carolina secretary of commerce. Delegations hailed from seven American states to strengthen political, economic and educational ties with Japanese counterparts.

North Carolina hosted last year’s conference in Charlotte and this year’s conference in Tokyo. Last year, Stephenson and Ward both spoke at the conference, the first to include higher education leaders.

The SEUS/Japan Conference underscored the broader economic and cultural relationship between North Carolina and Japan. Japan is the state’s top source of foreign direct investment, with 233 Japanese firms employing 36,000 people statewide and investing nearly $19.6 billion in capital over the past decade, according to the Economic Development Partnership for North Carolina, which maintains an office in Tokyo.

Governor Josh Stein at the 2025 SEUS/Japan conference discusses Japan’s impact on the state of North Carolina. (Yuuki Ide/Tokyo)

“Japan and North Carolina have a truly special partnership,” Stein said. “More than 36,000 North Carolinians wake up every morning and go to work for a Japanese company — and many more benefit from our years of cultural and academic collaboration.”

Don Hobart, retired associate vice chancellor for research at UNC-Chapel Hill, was a panelist alongside other university leaders from both countries. The discussion focused on how higher education institutions and industry can drive technological advancement to address shared challenges, an idea that is central to UNC Global Affairs’ strategy in Japan.

“For North Carolina, higher education has been central to the state’s economic development strategy, both from the workforce development angle and in research and innovation,” Ward said.

Connecting Tar Heels in Tokyo

During the visit, UNC Global Affairs and the Office of University Development hosted a reception at the Tokyo American Club for more than 130 Tar Heels and friends, including alumni, former exchange students, donors and Japanese partners. Stein and Lilley attended, too, with the governor speaking about the important relationship between North Carolina and Japan.

Stephenson acknowledged the University’s first international student in 1893, Shinzaburo Mogi, and the first Japanese student to graduate from Carolina in 1918, Kameichi Kato. Members of the Kato family attended the reception.

“The ties between Japan and America, and, more specifically, between Japan and North Carolina, are extensive,” Stephenson said. “More than a century of ties, decades of aligning interests and a couple years of focused relationship-building have made this visit possible, and I want to thank each of you for the role you have played in getting us here.”

Members of the Kato family chat with Ward and Stephenson, following their visit to Carolina. (Yuuki Ide/Tokyo)

She also introduced a special guest, Taketo “Mike” Furuhata ’52, the first international student to obtain an MBA from Carolina, who attended the reception. When Furuhata first came to Carolina, it took him 50 days to travel from Yokohama, Japan, to Chapel Hill.

“Between the time Kameichi Kato studied in Chapel Hill to the time Mike Furuhata earned his MBA, relations between Japan and America were difficult,” Stephenson said. “But Mike’s story is yet another example of how our countries’ stories are beautifully woven together.” She presented Furuhata a copy of “UNC Kenan-Flagler: A Century of Tradition and Innovation,” which includes a story about his experience at Carolina.

Since leading the University’s first delegation to Japan in 2023, UNC Global Affairs has expanded Carolina’s academic and research partnerships with Japanese universities and government funding agencies.

To learn more about Carolina’s engagement with Japan, contact Ward at heather.ward@unc.edu.

The annual fundraising effort is UNC-Chapel Hill’s initiative in support of the State Employees Combined Campaign, the only authorized fundraising effort permitted to solicit charitable donations in the state workplace. For more than four decades, Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares has empowered University employees to support thousands of charities to benefit communities across North Carolina.

This year employees can choose from more than 750 approved and vetted charities that help communities near campus, across the state and beyond.

Carolina employees can make a one-time or recurring gift through payroll deduction using ePledge. Employees who choose to donate through this preferred method only need their Onyen and Onyen password. Once signed into the platform, employees may select their charity designations and payment options. The ePledge method of giving serves as the employee’s personalized pledge form. Payroll deductions will begin Jan. 1, 2026.

Employees may also elect to pledge using cash, check or credit card through the online pledge form.

The exchange program was funded by the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki’s public affairs grant program and organized by UNC Global Affairs.

“Carolina was the perfect fit for this exchange program,” said Timothy Rose, Carolina’s associate director for exchange and sponsored programs. “UNC and our partner, the University of Helsinki, have both the expertise in various issues pertaining to global security and the ability to provide transformative, experiential opportunities for students. This expertise fit in well with the type of programs the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki was looking to support.”

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In North Carolina, participants learned from Carolina faculty in PWAD, political science and geography; toured and met with state security experts at the North Carolina National Guard Joint Force Headquarters and State Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh; visited Fort Bragg to learn about special operations, information warfare and women in the U.S. military and conducted discussions, simulations and activities.

“During the simulation, we reflected on when we first heard of Russia’s attack on Ukraine,” Kate Klinger ’26 said. “In that moment, I realized how much closer the conflict feels when Russia is your neighbor. Americans must remember our trans-Atlantic partners and the personal stories of those whom this war affects daily.”

Program events were open to the greater Carolina community and dozens of students were able to explore global security issues with their Finnish counterparts.

In May, Carolina participants visited Finland’s Ministry of Defense, Institute of International Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki, as well as the International Center for Defense and Security and NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia.

The April timing of the Chapel Hill visit was intentional. Finland joined NATO on April 4, 2023, after 74 years of an official foreign policy position of neutrality. Understanding NATO — including Finland’s recent accession and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — is central to the program’s learning objectives.

During the April exchange, UNC Global Affairs and the Center for European Studies hosted a Diplomatic Discussion with Finnish Consul General Jarmo Sareva in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium.

In her remarks at the Diplomatic Discussion, Barbara Stephenson, vice provost for global affairs and chief global officer, spoke about NATO and the role the alliance has played in promoting democracy and security around the world. She emphasized the importance of the exchange program in helping tomorrow’s leaders pursue solutions to shared global challenges.

“Finland is our friend. Finland is a close partner, and as of April 4, 2023, Finland is a crucial NATO ally,” Stephenson said. “These students are discovering the importance of this bilateral relationship through a transformative experience.”

The program trains the next generation of pharmacists by focusing on practice advancement and clinical education. In this partnership between the pharmacy school and premier pharmacy locations, preceptors and residents work together in community pharmacies across North Carolina.

Since about 95% of Americans live within 5 miles of a community pharmacy, each is a vital resource, especially for those in rural areas.

“Many of our sites are in rural counties and communities. Pharmacists are often the most accessible health care providers because consumers can walk into their pharmacy at any time and then have access to a trained professional,” said Macary Weck Marciniak ’00 (PharmD), residency program director.

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Residents are licensed pharmacists with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree. After completing the program, they can either accept a position at a clinical site or apply to another specialty program to continue their training.

The program has supported 163 residents over the past 25 years and is accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in partnership with the American Pharmacists Association. Prospective residents apply for the program and indicate their interest in various sites, and successful candidates match with one site where they will train for a year.

The program partners with practice sites across North Carolina, where pharmacist preceptors mentor residents. The sites include independent community pharmacies, large national chain pharmacies, supermarket pharmacies and ambulatory care settings where pharmacists and patients interact with other health care providers.

“The preceptor mentoring relationships are building diverse and meaningful experiences for our residents. At the same time, we’re building the pipeline of the workforce here in North Carolina. Right after their residency, they’re ready to step into leadership roles in their community,” said Marciniak. “I think of it as little Tar Heel footprints across the state, since we have these practice sites in western, central and eastern North Carolina.”

Moose Pharmacy owner Joe Moose and his father, William, approached Carolina to collaborate with the program from the beginning.

“Our proudest accomplishment is our footprint across North Carolina and nationwide. The residency program graduates are leaders all over the country and are raising the bar for pharmacy and health care in their communities,” Moose said.  “I love the innovation and the fact that we get to try out new models to deliver better care. If we didn’t have those residents, it would be tougher to pull that off.”

Preceptors and residents offer a variety of patient care services. Residents tackle a wide range of tasks each day — mentoring students, teaching lectures, working directly with patients and developing new programs. They administer vaccines, provide medication management services and conduct point-of-care testing for COVID-19, flu, blood pressure and blood sugar.

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“We have a phrase here, and we call it building your toolbox. Our pharmacy is a very innovative space, which means we are doing things that have never been done in a community pharmacy,” said Amie Howe ’01 (PharmD), Moose Pharmacy pharmacist and residency site coordinator for the PGY1 residency at Moose Pharmacy. “The residents play a huge role in developing those projects.”

Looking back on the program’s history, Marciniak said, “it’s amazing to say we’ve had something that stood the test of time for 25 years, with various practice partners and over 150 trainees. Our graduates are carrying forward what they’ve learned to help in every community they serve.”

When Carolina alumna Megan Rhodes and NC State grad Zachary Francis graduated from college, neither had immediate plans to lead their own North Carolina classroom. But both say they knew teaching and creating impact in the lives of K-12 students was a profession they would love.

After graduating in 2007 with degrees in public policy and geography, Rhodes spent time teaching English in South Korea and then traversing the globe as a member of the cabin crew for a top global airline. Francis, who graduated in 2015 with a degree in communications and media, was a sports journalist, including 2½ years as a sports anchor and reporter for a CBS affiliate in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Nearly five years ago, Rhodes and Francis each changed career paths and entered classrooms as residency license teachers — formerly known as lateral-entry teachers. As residency license teachers, Rhodes was hired to teach fourth grade at New Hope Elementary in Orange County and Francis to teach English at Lee County High School in Sanford.

Residency license teachers enter classrooms with college degrees, subject expertise and relevant professional experiences. However, they don’t enter with a full teaching license. To continue teaching, Rhodes and Francis each had to earn that license within their first three years in the classroom. They both turned to Pathway to Practice NC — an online educator preparation program offered by their alma maters, NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill, specifically designed to help residency license teachers earn a full teaching license.

Pathway to Practice NC is a unique collaboration between the UNC School of Education and the NC State College of Education that provides a 100% online, self-paced and competency-based program to help North Carolina’s residency licensed teachers, who are working educators, earn full licensure. The program, which is subscription-based, can be paused or resumed at any time and costs about $5,000 if completed in one year.

Since 2017, that model has served more than 530 residency license teachers from 90 of the state’s 115 school districts. Pathway to Practice NC earned accreditation — with no stipulations or areas for improvement — from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation this month.

Rhodes, who completed Pathway to Practice this past spring, said she enrolled in the program because of the affiliation between Carolina and NC State, and the strength of both universities. She said she appreciated Pathway to Practice’s flexibility and the program’s learning modules which helped enable her to do her job to “the best of her ability.”

A thoughtfully designed program

Ahead of Pathway to Practice’s launch, its creators — UNC School of Education and NC State College of Education faculty members, renowned researchers, and subject matter experts — sought to deliver high-quality, asynchronous modules for residency license teachers like Rhodes and Francis, full-time educators who represent a range of grade levels and subject matter.

“What we wanted to do was leverage the expertise of our faculty and program administrators to provide a program that would go far beyond our own campuses to serve the state of North Carolina,” said Diana Lys, UNC School of Education assistant dean for educator preparation and accreditation, who created and is operational lead for Pathway to Practice.

“Every step has been in partnership and collaboration — from ideas, to brainstorming, all the way through writing the curriculum,” said Alison Winzeler, director of Pathway to Practice NC and director of alternative licensure at the NC State College of Education.

That partnership resulted in a program that enables residency license teachers to complete modules — including ones focused on building supportive classroom environments, lesson planning, assessment, how to modify lessons based on student need, subject-specific content, and more — as their schedule allows. Each module is designed for teachers to embed within their own classrooms and is aligned with local, state and national standards.

“I appreciated the way the program is organized and falls into different modules. There’s some about understanding your classroom community and procedures, then others are more subject-based modules. There’s writing, reading, social studies and more,” said Rhodes.

Being a competency-based program means that residency license teachers master each competency — like developing evidence-based instruction to support fluent reading or identifying student needs and applying that knowledge to enhance instruction — at their own speed and then move on to the next. Some modules may be completed quickly, and some may require more time to complete.

“Not only is it all online, but it’s also asynchronous, so it works well with a busy teacher schedule. They can submit assignments early in the morning before they go to school or later in the evening. That flexibility is one thing that draws people to the program,” said Rachel Lewis, NC State’s alternative licensure specialist.

“Anytime I had a question, I knew I could reach out to anyone, and it wouldn’t take long to get a response, which is something I was thankful for because of how helpful everybody was,” Zachary Francis said. (Submitted photo)

Francis echoed the importance of the program’s flexibility: “The program helped me learn how to balance work and life. At night, I’m sitting down working on schoolwork for myself. Or I could say I need to put Pathway to Practice on the back burner for right now because we’ve got this big unit or I’ve got 90 essays I’m trying to grade in the next week.”

In addition to flexibility, Pathway to Practice also provides one-on-one support for the teachers it serves. During their studies, if students need help mastering modules, they receive support from an assigned facilitator. All Pathway to Practice facilitators are doctoral candidates at either NC State or UNC-Chapel Hill and are former classroom teachers.

“As a former teacher, I am constantly thinking back to what was practically impactful in the classroom when I am giving feedback,” said Mary Kathryn Oyaga, a facilitator and NC State doctoral student. “I think through strategies that supported my students in their learning and then share those strategies with my Pathway to Practice candidates. It is really encouraging when a candidate shares how a strategy that I have shared has moved the needle on student learning in their classroom.”

Francis found the facilitators to be another bright spot of the program.

“Anytime I had a question, I knew I could reach out to anyone, and it wouldn’t take long to get a response, which is something I was thankful for because of how helpful everybody was,” said Francis. “The feedback I got from my mentors was fantastic because it’s stuff I wasn’t going to think about at that point.”

At the end of the program, residency license teachers complete their Education Teacher Performance Assessment, a daunting step in the licensure process. The portfolio-based assessment requires them to gather materials and share a narrative on their lessons along with a video of a class. Once submitted and passed, they are eligible for their full license. To date, 100% of Pathway to Practice NC completers have passed the assessment, 90% on their first attempt.

“These teachers want a program that is going to help them do better at their job,” said Winzeler. “We get lost in the numbers and administrative stuff, but when we read an email from someone that talks about how they enjoyed learning and then applied the information to their classroom, that is impactful.”

The answer has implications for how smoothly the airport operates and the passenger experience.

In real-time, managers must decide when to deploy staff, what wait times to communicate to travelers and whether the airport is approaching capacity limits. They also need to run long-term planning scenarios for adding flights or making operational changes.

Adam Mersereau, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School professor and area chair of operations, joined with some colleagues to address these challenges. They wanted to create mathematical models that — paired with people-counting sensors — estimate crowding in the security area without visual headcounts.

“We saw an opportunity to solve two problems at once,” says Mersereau, who is also a Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar. “Passengers would get accurate wait time estimates so they could time their arrivals better, and the airport would get better data for staffing and long-term planning.”

Mersereau worked with professor Serhan Ziya of the UNC College of Arts and Sciences’ statistics and operations research department and faculty from North Carolina Wesleyan and Duke universities.

They used Raleigh-Durham International Airport as their test case, but their research may also help managers at theaters, hospitals and concert arenas better anticipate and manage crowds.

The difficulties of counting the crowd

Mersereau’s expertise centers on operations at brick-and-mortar retailers, where managers might know what’s selling but not who’s coming in or whether the store is adequately staffed.

Airports pose a similar kind of problem, he says. Managers don’t necessarily know how many people are in a space at a point in time.

“It’s not just passengers waiting in lines, but also bags, planes and crews,” says Mersereau. “And with physical queues, it’s mostly guesswork. No one’s standing there with a clipboard tracking line length in real time.”

To come up with an accurate count, Mersereau and the team installed infrared beam sensors at the entrance and exit of the Transportation Security Administration area at the airport. Each time a passenger breaks the beam, the system logs either an entry or an exit. At any given moment, it tracks the total number of people who have entered since the start of the day and how many have left. In theory, the difference between those two figures should be about how many people are currently there.

But the system’s counts of people coming and going are inherently “noisy.” A couple walking arm-in-arm might register as one person. A big rolling suitcase might count as two. A person inadvertently leaning on the sensor can throw it off completely.

“These little errors add up, and they do so in ways that eventually make the estimates pretty useless,” says Mersereau.

The remedy lies in an algorithm that involves strategic resetting of population estimates. When the system can confidently detect when exits slow or stop through patterns in the departure stream, resetting the count to zero prevents errors from building over time.

The algorithm is most effective at smaller airports like Raleigh-Durham, where traffic naturally rises and falls. In high-traffic airports where crowds never let up, additional data, such as occasional manual counts by airport personnel, can improve performance beyond what the algorithm alone achieves, he adds.

Mersereau’s research has applications beyond TSA checkpoints and airports. It could help managers at venues with scheduled events — such as stadiums, hospitals and museums — better predict and manage crowds.

“Nobody likes dealing with long lines — not travelers, not TSA agents, not the barista behind the terminal coffee counter,” he said. “Everyone has something to gain from making the whole system more efficient.”

Read more about Mersereau’s research.

“They’re going to be more effective advocates for their current clients. And they’re going to be better North Carolinians because they’re going out to do pro bono work and help veterans,” said John Brooker ’03 (JD), Wade Edwards Term Professor of Law and director of the Military and Veterans Law Clinic. “Many students have family members or friends in the military. What these folks are doing is learning in the clinic about veterans affairs by taking it out of the book and putting it into real-life practice, which makes them more effective advocates and North Carolinians.”

Students worked with the Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, which runs the Veterans Restoration Quarters, a shelter where veterans can live rent-free for two years. The facility offers life skills and job training, three meals a day, counseling appointments, veterans affairs benefits and drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

About eight Carolina students joined Wake Forest School of Law students on the visit.

“Having a job and being fed three meals a day is what most people need to get back on their feet,” said Mya Fernandez, a third-year Carolina law student who went on the trip. “Giving people a sense of purpose and a place to stay helps the most.”

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Students also met with officials from the Buncombe County Veterans Treatment court and watched proceedings in the Buncombe County Adult Drug Treatment Court to learn how to be more effective client advocates.

“They’re going to learn from real judges, court administrators, prosecutors and defense counsel in the courtroom while meeting everyone involved in the process,” said Brooker. “This helps them understand on a deeper, granular level how the process works versus just reading a conviction on paper and making a judgment based on that.”

Students then toured the veterans affairs hospital in Asheville, learning about the physical and mental health challenges veterans face.

Brooker was an attorney in the U.S. Army, defending soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction. As a disabled veteran with PTSD, he now advocates for veterans facing these challenges.

“Our clients have mental health struggles, so our students are going to talk with actual providers who treat them every day and share their experiences,” Brooker said. “This helps them learn from those providers about what are the biggest challenges they face, what they’re going to learn from them, what’s the thing we can do to help the most. They build networks and relationships and learn firsthand by doing versus by reading.”

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At the end of their trip, students met with law school alumni in the Asheville area and reflected on what they had learned.

“It really was an amazing opportunity to get to see the resources and people willing to help,” Fernandez said. “I had never had any experience working with veterans prior to coming to the MVLC clinic, but I’ve been able to put myself in my client’s shoes through this opportunity. If you are willing to help in any small way, I would get involved, as veterans greatly appreciate the help.”

Brooker agreed. “They can better understand what resources are out there, what their clients are going through and learn more about the intersection of addiction and criminal law. We’re getting students out of the four walls of our classrooms in Chapel Hill and seeing this happen in real life.”