“A Look Inside Early Psychosis Care in Pennsylvania”

At a PA FEP (First Episode Psychosis) center, treatment is designed with each individual in mind and involves many types of trained, caring professionals who will work with each person on a plan of recovery. The Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) model is a comprehensive and team-based model, emphasizing hope, empowerment, and collaborative management of care. Watch this short video to learn more.

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“What is Psychosis?” Educational Video

This is a brief educational video from HeadsUp that talks about early psychosis.  It is available for use to help spread information about psychosis to those who may need support.

"What is Psychosis?" Video

HeadsUp Animated Video “What is Coordinated Specialty Care?”

A brief educational video from HeadsUp about Coordinated Specialty Care which is the type of care someone receives at a Pennsylvania First Episode Psychosis (FEP) Center.  It is available for use to help spread information about psychosis to those who may need support.

What is Coordinated Specialty Care?

Students with Psychosis

“Students With Psychosis offers 28+ hours of programming each week available at no cost to students and advocates globally. Over 75% of SWP leadership is from the lived experience perspective. It is their mission to empower student leaders and advocates worldwide through community building and collaboration.”

Students with Psychosis

“I Am Not a Monster” TEDx Talk

“Cecilia McGough puts a face to schizophrenia and helps empower college students through the upcoming non-profit Students With Schizophrenia.”

"I Am Not a Monster"

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health)

“The nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.”

NAMI

NAMI Keystone

“NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania is a 501(c)(3) grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, adolescents, adults, and families affected by mental illness through recovery-focused support, education, and advocacy.”

NAMI Keystone

Job Accommodation Network (JAN)

“The leading source of free, expert, and confidential guidance on job accommodations and disability employment issues. Serving customers across the United States and around the world for more than 35 years, JAN provides free one-on-one practical guidance and technical assistance on job accommodation solutions, Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related legislation, and self-employment and entrepreneurship options for people with disabilities.”

Job Accommodation Network

Minding your Mind

“Dedicated to ending stigma and destructive behaviors associated with mental health issues, moving away from a crisis-based response to prevention through education. We use the power of storytelling to provide evidence-based education on mental health challenges to our audiences. Our inspiring programs create safe communication spaces to discuss signs and symptoms often associated with mental health challenges and how to address them.”

Minding your Mind

PFLAG

“PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. With nearly 400 chapters and 250,000 members and supporters crossing multiple generations of families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas across America, PFLAG is committed to creating a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are respected, valued, and affirmed.”

PFLAG

HeadsUp Navigating a Mental Health Crisis Insert

Navigating a Crisis Insert

Strong 365

“Through online education, 24/7 peer support & connection to specialized care across the U.S., their goal is to shorten the path to quality mental health support for young people. Backed by One Mind and built by a team of wellness warriors who know what it’s like to struggle, they are here to support you as you tap into your own strength.”

Strong365

Voice Collective

“A UK-wide, London-based project that supports children and young people up to 25 years old who hear voices, see visions, have other ‘unusual’ sensory experiences or beliefs. Offers support for parents/families, and training for youth workers, social workers, mental health professionals and other supporters.  Funded by BBC Children In Need and the John Lyon’s Charity.”

Voice Collective

Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance

Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance

Living Well with Schizophrenia

“This is a channel dedicated to increasing knowledge around schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and mental illness. These videos are intended to be a resource for people with the diagnosis, their loved ones, and for people who just want to learn more about the illness.”

Living Well with Schizophrenia

The Trevor Project

“The Trevor Project is the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ young people. We provide information & support to LGBTQ 
young people 24/7, all year round.”

The Trevor Project

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)

“Offers peer-based, wellness-oriented support and empowering services and resources available when people need them, where they need them, and how they need to receive them—online 24/7, in local support groups, in audio and video casts, or in printed materials distributed by DBSA, their chapters, and mental health care facilities across America.”

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

Pennsylvania Health Law Project

“PHLP is a non-profit legal services organization that represents Pennsylvanians who need help getting or keeping MA. Visit their online resource library to find self-help materials related to various health care topics including MA.”

PHLP

PA Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities (MAWD) A Guide to Eligibility

PA Medicaid MAWD

Calm Harm

Calm Harm is an award-winning app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause, in collaboration with young people, using principles from the evidence-based Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). The Calm Harm app provides some immediate activities and techniques to help you break the cycle of self-harm behaviour and explore underlying trigger factors; the app supports you in building a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours, and access to supportive people, as well as providing the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. The Calm Harm app also signposts to help. The app is private, anonymous, and safe.

Calm Harm

Breathe to Relax

Breathe2Relax is a FREE portable stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing. Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ (stress) response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. Breathe2Relax can be used as a stand-alone stress reduction tool, or can be used in tandem with clinical care directed by a healthcare worker.

Breathe to Relax

MindShift® CBT App

Mindshift

Virtual Hope Box (VHB)

“The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Users and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the individual’s own smartphone according to their specific needs. The individual can then use the VHB away from clinic, continuing to add or change content as needed.”

Virtual Hope Box

Mind Apps-Health Index & Navigation Database

“There are an estimated ten thousand mental health apps available today, offering a range of possibilities from connection with a clinicain to symptom monitoring. Apps can be useful in care, but it’s important to be cautious about choosing a suitable app. The goal of this database is to equip users with the information necessary to make a decision based on the app characteristics that matter most to them.”

MindApps

The Schizophrenia Oral History Project

“The Schizophrenia Oral History Project (TSOHP) is an archive of life stories of persons with schizophrenia. Our narrators are women and men with schizophrenia who are sharing their lives in an effort to increase understanding and reduce stigma related to mental illness. Their stories reveal not only their struggles, but their remarkable courage and resilience, their hopes, dreams and talents, and their concern for others. In addition to documenting their histories, we are sharing their stories in presentations for professionals and the general public.”

The Schizophrenia Oral History Project

Schizophrenia Information in Different Languages

Provided by the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, information about schizophrenia in different languages.

Schizophrenia Information in Different Languages

My Experience with Psychosis — and My Recovery Journey

My Experience with Psychosis