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Our Commitment to You
Vision
Psychosis is treatable. Recovery is expected.
Mission
To improve the mental health and quality of life of youth and
adults with psychosis by promoting early identification and providing
optimal interventions in the critical period of the early years
of psychosis.
To achieve this, we will:
- Promote awareness and recognition of
early psychosis.
- Enhance existing service delivery to youth
and adults with early psychosis, as well as their families.
- Integrate
youth and adult mental health services in the provision of
clinical services.
- Provide rapid access to optimal, intensive,
phase-specific treatment for early psychosis and deliver
best practices clinical
services.
- Develop a continuum of appropriate services for
youth and adults with early psychosis within the existing
mental health
system and with community partners.
- Conduct outcome research
and contribute to the development of knowledge about early
psychosis.
Philosophy
Our practice philosophy includes:
- Biopsychosocial approach and
developmental framework to assessment and interventions
- Active
engagement and fostering of the therapeutic alliance
- Consumers
and families as therapeutic partners
- Education as empowerment
- Minimize hospitalization
- Minimize restrictive
and intrusive interventions
- Promotion of recovery and (re)integration
into community
- Facilitation in meeting developmental
challenges
- Ensure the continuity of care and evidence-based
best practices among early psychosis service providers
- Bridging
services and advocating systemic change
- Community mobilization
Values
Accessibility
Accountability
Effectiveness
Innovation
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