Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
The Nevada Clinical High Risk for Pyschosis Program for Youth (CHR-P) aims to prevent or lessen the impact of psychotic disorders in help-seeking adolescents and transition age youth in southern Nevada who are at clinical high risk for psychosis. NV CHR-P will implement a stepped-care model to provde evidence based interventions in a trauma-informed manner that are designed to prevent or delay the onset of illness in these individuals. Services will be delivered in the Clark County Behavioral Health Region (BHR) in southern Nevada which encompasses Las Vegas in Clark County and part of Nye County. In this BHR, it is estimated that there are 7,882 individuals who meet psychosis-risk criteria and 45,332 individuals with psychosis-risk symptoms who are between 15-25 years of age. NV CHR-P will address unmet service needs and critical gaps in the state's mental health system for these individuals. The program uses evidence based intervention and assessment procedures that are implemented in a stepped care model of treatment for early psychosis. This stepped care model emphasizes the staging of clinical intervention throughout a young person's participation in the program. Lower intensity and lower risk treatments are provided as first-line interventions and decisions about treatment completion, maintenance therapy or a step-up to more intensive care is based on objective measures of treatment response. Interventions are designed to (1) Improve clinical symptoms and behavioral functioning; (2) Enable youth and young adults to resume age-apporpriate social, academic and/or vocational activities; (3) Delay or prevent the onset of psychosis; (4) Minimize the duration of untreated psychosis for those who developed psychotic symptoms; and (5) Reduce occurence of psychotic disorders in youth and young adults. Services will be provided by UNLV PRACTICE and the UNLV School of Medicine, in an interdisciplinary community mental health training setting where faculty and student clinicians provide evidence based, culturally- and linguistically-informed care to Southern Nevada and the Las Vegas community.
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