Illnesses don’t recover. People do. Pat Deegan’s Recovery Approach focuses on the person instead of the illness and offers hope-filled tools, technologies, and training for professionals, families & individuals. Solutions for organizations, clinicians, peer supporters, and other mental health professionals.

This website has a wide variety of resources relating to First Episode Psychosis and Coordinated Speciality Care for teens & young adults, family & friends, and providers.

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline provides 24/7 access to trained crisis counselors who can help individuals experiencing mental health related stress, including thoughts of suicide, mental health, or substance use crisis or any other kind of emotional distress. Call, text, or chat 988.

This website is a collective resource about Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI).

NAVIGATE is a comprehensive program designed to provide early and effective treatment to individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis.

This website explains the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE), psychosis, and coordinated speciality care.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) website provides education, advocacy, and support for individuals and families affected by mental health conditions. It offers resources on mental illnesses, treatment options, community programs, and ways to get involved in raising awareness and reducing stigma.

This video is a conversation regarding how to navigate and maintain friendships and protect your own mental health.

This page contains some basic information about voices, visions and other unusual sensory perceptions. If you feel you know little about the experience of hearing voices or seeing visions, it’s a good place to start.

The Basics of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for Early Psychosis is a self-paced online course designed introduce the evidence-based, multidisciplinary early intervention service for individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis.

This report explores why some people experience psychosis, focusing on psychological and social factors rather than biology. It highlights understanding these experiences in context and ways to reduce distress.

This presentation discusses psychosis and it’s impact on individuals.

This article discusses implementation of the NAVIGATE Program. It outlines training, delivery and fidelity evaluation of the program.

This presentation highlights how Virginia and Washington are developing and applying data collection strategies to track, evaluate, and improve services for individuals with early serious mental illness and first episode psychosis.

This report reviews the costs, cost-effectiveness, and funding strategies for sustaining Coordinated Specialty Care programs for individuals experiencing first episode psychosis.

This manual describes methods for outreach, steps to establishing a referral network, and guidance on evaluating and admitting individuals to an early intervention specialty clinic.

This white paper outlines Massachusetts’ state-level framework for implementing Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC). It also details CSC’s core evidence-based components.

This pocket guide attempts to define principles of practice that should produce high-quality care for patients with Schizophrenia. It is applicable to specialists, primary care, and providers at all levels.

This article explains how expanding Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for people experiencing early psychosis can improve recovery, reduce costs, and strengthen mental health systems nationwide. It also shares a national model estimating the impact of scaling CSC access to reach more individuals in need.

SAMHSA flyer explaining schizophrenia, its signs and symptoms, and treatment options.

NAMI flyer explaining first episode psychosis.

SAMHSA flyer explaining first episode pyschosis for young adults.

This article reviews the costs and funding challenges of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for first episode psychosis and explores strategies states can use to expand and sustain these services beyond federal block grant funding.

The First Episode Psychosis Services Fidelity Scale (FEPS-FS-1.0) is used to assess the degree to which mental health teams deliver specialized care comprised of a range of evidence-based practices to people experiencing a first episode psychosis and their families. Program fidelity refers to the extent to which delivery of an intervention adheres to the protocol of an evidence-based program model. Fidelity scales provide a list of objective criteria by which a program is judged to adhere to a reference standard for the intervention. The scale can be conceptualized as an outcome measure for implementation research or as a quality measure for assessing structure and process indicators in health care (Donabedian, 1966).

This presentation highlights the vital role families play in coordinated specialty care for individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis. It explores why family involvement matters, what families go through, and the supports they need.

The Evidence-Based Resource Guide Series is a comprehensive and modular set of resources intended to support health care providers, health care system administrators, and community members to meet the needs of individuals at risk for, experiencing, or recovering from addictions and mental illness.

This flyer provides general information and statistics about psychosis.

This article explores the stigma surrounding first episode psychosis (FEP) in young people ages 15 to 30. Building on a National Academy of Sciences report, it examines what stigma looks like for individuals with FEP, how it differs from stigma in chronic mental illness, and possible ways to reduce its impact.

Flyer from the National Institute of Mental Health that explains what psychosis is, its signs and symptoms, treatment options, and coordinated specialty care.

These guidelines provide an overview of the current state of practice and knowledge regarding family interventions in psychosis and provide a guide for psychologists and other family work practitioners, regarding how to support and deliver these family interventions in services.

Strong 365 is a community of wellness warriors who believe the strength to persist and thrive through a mental health challenge exists in all of us. We’re shortening the path to effective, life-saving help for young people facing mental health challenges today — one of the most misunderstood health issues affecting our community today. By providing critical information and resources, and showcasing personal stories of finding acceptance, hope and inspiration through tough times, our dream is to redefine seeking help as a sign of strength.

This 60-minute webinar provides an overview of clinical high risk (CHR-P) for psychosis and CHR-P programs. Dr. Jason Schiffman, Director of the PREVENT Lab at the University of California, Irvine provides an overview of CHR-P and moderates a panel composed of SAMHSA clinical high risk for psychosis grantees to discuss their experiences and challenges with program implementation as well as practical solutions and resources to advance clinical high risk for psychosis programming.

Official YouTube Channel of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Welcome to the Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment Locator, a confidential and anonymous source of information for persons and their family members who are seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for a recent onset of serious mental illnesses such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other conditions. These evidence-based programs provide medication, therapy, family and peer support, assistance with education and employment and other services.

This website describes the Quiet Minds program and provides a list of where the service is offered.

This website was designed to help providers working with teenagers & young adults to:

• know the signs that are common early indicators of psychosis.
• find the words to ask about warning signs and psychotic-like experiences.
• make the connection to approrpriate assessment and treatment resources.

This short video discusses psychosis for young people.

Find blogs discussing a variety of mental health topics on this SAMHSA Blog page.

Early intervention programs for people with psychosis or at high risk of psychosis have expanded rapidly. This article is about Coordinated Specialty Care, one model of care that has proven to be effective in reducing symptoms and improving patients’ quality of life.

WV selected the First Episode Psychosis Services Fidelity Scale (FEPS-FS) for fidelity.

The EPINET Core Assessment Battery (CAB) includes standardized measures and individual items that assess key domains of early psychosis psychopathology, recovery, contextual factors, and treatment.

ISPS is an international organization promoting psychological and social treatments for persons with psychosis (a term which includes persons diagnosed with “schizophrenia”). We are committed to advancing education, training and knowledge of mental health professionals in the treatment and prevention of psychotic mental disorders. We seek to achieve the best possible outcomes for service user/survivors of psychosis by engaging in meaningful partnership with health professionals, people with lived experience, family members and carers.

This video describes the roles and services of a Coordinated Speciality Care team. The video is presented by HeadsUp PA, but aligns with WV’s Quiet Minds program.

This video discusses the idea of building a broader mental heath community to empower the many individuals who might come in contact with a young person in psychiatric distress, and what they can do to help. The aim is to decrease the duration of untreated psychosis, minimize the trauma of psychotic illness, and promote recovery. This talk is presented by Rachel Waford, a licensed clinical psychologist in Atlanta, GA and an assistant professor in Emory University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine.

A guide for young people and their supporters.

This first edition of the NAMI Schizophrenia and Psychosis Lexicon Guide strives to represent current best practices regarding the words and terms, including clinical and plain language phrases, that are used in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, recovery and overall wellbeing of and respect for people with schizophrenia and related psychosis conditions. Importantly, this guide is not a glossary – it is a conversation starter.

While the guide focuses primarily on language used between individuals and their treatment team, it is intended for use by specialty clinicians, general practitioners and pharmacists, communications and public relations professionals, law enforcement and first responders, the news media, and the general public. Publication of this lexicon also coincides with the expanding demand for factdriven news reporting on television, radio and social media, and supports improvement of communication standards and practices.

This website offers SIPS training information and provides a directory for SIPS qualified assessors/trainers.

This SAMHSA webinar explores the complexity of hallucinatory and psychotic-like experiences in youth and young adults, particularly those referred to early psychosis and coordinated specialty care programs. It is presented by Dr. Ryan Melton, Acting Dean of the School of Psychology and Counseling at Bushnell University and Clinical Director of the EASA Center for Excellence at Oregon Health & Science University

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