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WHO WAS
DOROTHEA DIX?
The Dorothea Dix Care Unit for
Adolescents at Cape Fear Valley
is made possible in part through
Dorothea Dix Hospital Property
Funds. Those funds were made
possible by the 2015 sale of
the Dorothea Dix campus near
downtown Raleigh, which was
formerly home to the state's
largest mental hospital. Terms
of the sale specified that pro-
ceeds be used for mental health
treatment programs throughout
the state.
By all accounts, that likely would
have pleased Dorothea Dix. Born
in 1802, Dix was called to action
by the appalling conditions she
witnessed while teaching Sun-
day school in a Massachusetts
women's prison. She went on to
become a leading national and
international figure in the move-
ment to help those with mental
illnesses and was a staunch be-
liever in compassionate care. In
1979, she was inducted into the
National Women's Hall of Fame.
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