Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB) is proposing to add new Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (CHR-P) programming to the current First Episode Psychosis (FEP) Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) program, Turning Point, that the CSB currently operates. This new program will provide effective and intensive early intervention to clinically high risk individuals under the age of 25 residing in Fairfax County, Virginia. This program will be based on the services outlined in the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS-2) as well as other (CHR-P) programs. This program will be closely integrated with Turning Point, which the CSB has operated for three years. Individuals served will come from all areas of Fairfax County, representing the demographics of the community, 70% are White, 9% are Black, 13% are Asia/Pacific Islanders and 11% are Hispanic. These individuals may be exhibiting pre-psychosis symptoms including noticeable changes in perception, thinking or functioning that may be accompanied by attenuated symptoms of psychosis or brief episodes of psychosis short of conversion to a diagnosable first episode of psychosis. They will be provided services using a stepped care model where services of least intensity and lowest risk are provided first. Services may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, skill-teaching, family therapy and education, supported education, supported employment peer support and psychopharmacology. It is expected that the program will serve at least 35 individuals each year or 140 over the life of the project. The project’s goals are to: educate 200 community entities about the CHR-P program over the course of the project, identify 69 individuals each year, or 276 over the life of the project, who are CHR-P through program referrals, assist 80% of the individuals, or 28 people each year, stay employed or in school, provide family therapy/education to 28 families each year, or 112 families over the course of the project. It is expected that through effective and timely stepped care, that fewer than 5 individuals will convert to diagnosable psychosis each year, 20 people in total, and that 4 of the 5 will be transferred to more intensive services in the Turning Point FEP CSC program.
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