About the Initiative on First Episode Psychosis
Initiative goal
To collaborate with the New York State Office of Mental Health Center for Practice Innovations to help explore issues of race and culture in treatment following a first episode of psychosis (FEP).
NYSPI-CECC staff will participate in interviews with clients from one FEP treatment program, RAISE Connection, to learn how they came to seek FEP treatment following a first episode, and will examine the ways in which race and culture impact treatment-seeking. Center staff will also examine service delivery through the New York State initiative, OnTrackNY.
Planned analyses include:
- Examination of factors affecting pathways to mental health care, and ways to reduce duration of untreated psychosis
- Examination of the delivery of education and employment services, particularly for diverse populations who may have encountered disparities in the education and employment sectors
- Shared client-provider decision making
- Asset building
Associated project
Reports
We invite you to read our Cultural Competence Matters reports on this topic:
- “Schizophrenia: The Impact of Race on Diagnosis”
- “Social determinants of subthreshold psychotic symptoms among racial & ethnic minorities”
- “El impacto de la raza en el diagnóstico de squizofrenia”
You may see all our periodic Cultural Competence Matters reports here: Cultural Competence Matters.
To see an alphabetical list of the projects that are being conducted as part of our research initiatives, please click here: Research projects at the CECC