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STEP LC - Overview of EIS for Schizophrenia - Session 1

April 01, 2025
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  • 00:03Alright. So welcome, everyone, to
  • 00:05the step learning collaborative's
  • 00:07overview of
  • 00:09early intervention services for schizophrenia
  • 00:11course.
  • 00:13We're so glad to have
  • 00:14so many of you joining
  • 00:15us.
  • 00:17We wanted to start with
  • 00:18some introductions.
  • 00:21For those of you who
  • 00:22I haven't met before, my
  • 00:23name is Laura Yauveen Sykes.
  • 00:25Professionally,
  • 00:26I'm a clinical psychologist
  • 00:28at the STEP program,
  • 00:30and I'm also the director
  • 00:31of our STEP learning collaborative.
  • 00:33And then personally, I'm a
  • 00:35family member of someone experiencing
  • 00:37schizophrenia.
  • 00:39And I'm so excited to
  • 00:40be joined today and throughout
  • 00:42the rest of the course,
  • 00:43by doctor Vinod Srihari,
  • 00:46a professor at the Yale
  • 00:48School of Medicine in the
  • 00:49department of psychiatry.
  • 00:51He's the director,
  • 00:53founder, and also a practicing
  • 00:54psychiatrist
  • 00:56at the STEP program and
  • 00:57overall kind of visionary for
  • 00:59our statewide for our hopes
  • 01:00of a a statewide network
  • 01:02of care.
  • 01:03We're
  • 01:05really excited to be joined
  • 01:07by so many leaders,
  • 01:09managers, and mental health, practitioners
  • 01:11who are invested in the
  • 01:12well-being
  • 01:13of young people with recent
  • 01:15onset psychotic disorders.
  • 01:17So we're really eager and
  • 01:19excited to get to know
  • 01:20all of you better and
  • 01:21build ongoing relationships with you.
  • 01:24For the interest of time,
  • 01:26we ask that everyone introduce
  • 01:27themselves
  • 01:28in the chat. Feel free
  • 01:30to just type in your
  • 01:31name,
  • 01:32organization,
  • 01:34and the role that you
  • 01:35hold.
  • 01:44So I'll take a couple
  • 01:45minutes to just orient everyone
  • 01:47to the course,
  • 01:48before we get into the
  • 01:50bulk of the content for
  • 01:51today.
  • 01:52So, again, this is our
  • 01:54overview of early intervention services
  • 01:56for schizophrenia,
  • 01:59six week course.
  • 02:00Here's the the overview of
  • 02:02our next six sessions,
  • 02:04which will be held on,
  • 02:06upcoming Thursdays.
  • 02:09We hope that,
  • 02:11after participating, you all will
  • 02:13leave with a foundation,
  • 02:15a foundational knowledge in the
  • 02:16research,
  • 02:17evidence,
  • 02:18and a clear understanding of
  • 02:20the structures,
  • 02:21processes, and outcomes that can
  • 02:23guide,
  • 02:24implementation
  • 02:25of
  • 02:26steps for early intervention service
  • 02:28care pathway.
  • 02:30We hope that this will
  • 02:31enable you all to prepare
  • 02:32your respective health care organizations
  • 02:35to be able to participate
  • 02:36in an emerging statewide system
  • 02:38of care for individuals experiencing
  • 02:41recent onset psychotic disorders.
  • 02:45For those
  • 02:46looking for additional information, you
  • 02:48can find,
  • 02:49a bit more in that
  • 02:50course syllabus that Nina sent
  • 02:52out to you all yesterday,
  • 02:53and I'm also happy to
  • 02:55to resend that in a
  • 02:56a subsequent email.
  • 03:01So before we dive into
  • 03:02today's content,
  • 03:03I wanted to take a
  • 03:04moment to just orient you
  • 03:06to the step learning collaborative.
  • 03:08So for those of you
  • 03:09who, haven't been familiar with
  • 03:11this initiative,
  • 03:13it's a workforce development and
  • 03:15community education initiative
  • 03:17to bolster provider capacity,
  • 03:20to better serve folks, who
  • 03:21are experiencing recent onset schizophrenia
  • 03:24spectrum disorders across of our
  • 03:26state of Connecticut.
  • 03:28So
  • 03:29when there's the overall goal
  • 03:31and vision, which doctor Sriheri
  • 03:33will talk about in more
  • 03:34depth, but that we we
  • 03:36imagine,
  • 03:37we have an end goal
  • 03:38of no matter which ZIP
  • 03:40code an individual experiencing
  • 03:43psychosis lives in, that they'd
  • 03:44be able to rapidly
  • 03:46access high quality care in
  • 03:48our state of Connecticut.
  • 03:50So over the past several
  • 03:52years, the learning collaborative has
  • 03:54provided various offerings,
  • 03:56to different stakeholder groups.
  • 03:58We have had a focus,
  • 04:00for behavioral health providers.
  • 04:02We've been developing this course
  • 04:04that we're offering to you
  • 04:05now.
  • 04:06We've previously run,
  • 04:08an early psychosis echo, which
  • 04:10was focused on
  • 04:12providers across the state bringing
  • 04:13in different case discussions
  • 04:15as well as,
  • 04:17step kind of content experts
  • 04:18offering brief didactics about best
  • 04:21practices for early psychosis care.
  • 04:24We periodically offer webinars
  • 04:27for providers.
  • 04:28And then we also,
  • 04:30aim to serve and engage
  • 04:32with the community and various
  • 04:34stakeholders, so including
  • 04:36family,
  • 04:37and just other interested community
  • 04:39stakeholders
  • 04:39through different types of workshops,
  • 04:41including,
  • 04:42you know, learning strategies for
  • 04:44talking with someone experiencing early
  • 04:46psychosis,
  • 04:48seminars to help kinda break
  • 04:50the stigma or learn how
  • 04:51to interact with mobile crisis
  • 04:53teams during
  • 04:55a crisis situation.
  • 04:57And then we also maintain
  • 04:58a variety of virtual resources
  • 05:00and encourage you all to
  • 05:02to check out our website
  • 05:03if you haven't already at
  • 05:04ctearlypsychosisnetwork
  • 05:06dot org.
  • 05:12So,
  • 05:13this slide, which we hope
  • 05:14you'll get become very well
  • 05:16acquainted with over the next
  • 05:18six weeks,
  • 05:21this overview course is organized
  • 05:23around the step service care
  • 05:24pathway, which you can see
  • 05:26outlined here.
  • 05:28So each session well, today's
  • 05:30kind of an, you know,
  • 05:31introduction and overview, but each
  • 05:32subsequent session will focus on
  • 05:34one of these modules,
  • 05:36that make up the step
  • 05:38service care pathway.
  • 05:40And as a reminder,
  • 05:41the goal of the overview
  • 05:42course would really be to
  • 05:44support your understanding
  • 05:45of the structures,
  • 05:47processes, and outcomes that can
  • 05:48guide implementation
  • 05:50of such a care pathway.
  • 05:54So we will talk about
  • 05:55each of these. They include
  • 05:56early detection,
  • 05:58evaluation
  • 05:59and initiation of treatment,
  • 06:02continuing care
  • 06:04in coordinated specialty care,
  • 06:06and then lastly, care transition.
  • 06:08So you can see that
  • 06:09the most of the the
  • 06:11sessions will align with one
  • 06:12of these modules.
  • 06:15So now I will hand
  • 06:16it over to doctor Srihari
  • 06:18who will lead us on
  • 06:19an introduction to early intervention
  • 06:21for schizophrenia in Connecticut.
  • 06:26Thanks, Laura, and thanks everyone
  • 06:28for putting in your names
  • 06:30and roles on the chat.
  • 06:31It's really great to see
  • 06:32the diversity of expertise and
  • 06:34also the different regions of
  • 06:36the state that are represented.
  • 06:39My task here is to
  • 06:40cover some key concepts by
  • 06:42way of introducing
  • 06:44the rest of the sessions.
  • 06:46And
  • 06:48my goal here by the
  • 06:49end of this session is
  • 06:50to give you a sense
  • 06:52of how we've constructed
  • 06:54and
  • 06:55tested the model of care
  • 06:57that we've been providing at
  • 06:58STEP.
  • 06:59And as Laura mentioned, to
  • 07:00help you think about ways
  • 07:02in which this this might
  • 07:03be relevant
  • 07:04or which aspects of this
  • 07:06might be relevant to your
  • 07:07own organizations
  • 07:09as we start thinking about
  • 07:11partnering with, agencies across the
  • 07:13state to improve,
  • 07:15pathways to care and outcomes
  • 07:17of treatment for early course
  • 07:20schizophrenia.
  • 07:21We can go to the
  • 07:22next slide.
  • 07:27So,
  • 07:28as a as a review
  • 07:31to describe maybe what our
  • 07:33target illnesses
  • 07:34are, we're speaking here about,
  • 07:37syndromes.
  • 07:38So these include
  • 07:40subjective
  • 07:41symptoms, but also signs that
  • 07:43can be observed
  • 07:44that typically fall into five
  • 07:46clusters. The first that are
  • 07:47often the most familiar
  • 07:49even to non clinicians are
  • 07:51the so called positive symptoms
  • 07:52that sometimes get referred to
  • 07:54as psychosis or psychotic symptoms.
  • 07:56The reality distortion, delusions, hallucinations,
  • 08:00and the kinds of disorganization
  • 08:02that can be very evident
  • 08:04even to
  • 08:05an untrained,
  • 08:06eye. So these are the
  • 08:07positive symptoms.
  • 08:09In the next slide,
  • 08:11you will see a description
  • 08:13here of the negative symptoms,
  • 08:16maybe better described as
  • 08:18signs that can be observed
  • 08:20again that are an absence
  • 08:22of what we would all
  • 08:23count on as normal functioning.
  • 08:25So a severe lack of
  • 08:27motivation,
  • 08:29lack of spontaneous speech. In
  • 08:31many ways, the most disabling
  • 08:33aspects of these illnesses,
  • 08:35that can explain,
  • 08:37long term dysfunction and morbidity.
  • 08:40Interestingly,
  • 08:41these symptoms
  • 08:43or signs
  • 08:45can,
  • 08:46include a normal ability to
  • 08:48enjoy pleasure,
  • 08:50but
  • 08:51do not,
  • 08:52include an ability to anticipate
  • 08:54or to plan ahead for
  • 08:55this. And it often will
  • 08:57present with someone whose parents
  • 08:59might complain that the person
  • 09:01is quite willing to join
  • 09:02them in a recreational activity
  • 09:04and appears to enjoy it,
  • 09:05but will not initiate or
  • 09:07or demonstrate any motivation to
  • 09:10organize or plan it themselves.
  • 09:11And you might imagine how
  • 09:13this can be a huge
  • 09:14source of social disability in
  • 09:16a young adult,
  • 09:17who is expected to be
  • 09:19able to form their own
  • 09:20social networks at that age.
  • 09:22The next slide describes a
  • 09:24couple of other at clusters
  • 09:26that are less well
  • 09:28appreciated.
  • 09:30So the cognitive deficits,
  • 09:32of these illnesses can be
  • 09:33quite disabling as well,
  • 09:35but are often subclinical.
  • 09:37They're difficult to observe in
  • 09:38usual clinical interactions,
  • 09:40although they are, easily
  • 09:42measurable in more detailed neuropsychological
  • 09:45testing.
  • 09:46And, again, like negative symptoms,
  • 09:49explain much of the long
  • 09:50term disability of these illnesses.
  • 09:53And finally, the clusters that
  • 09:55overlap significantly with mood disorders
  • 09:58include
  • 09:59dysregulations
  • 10:00that look like depression and
  • 10:01can also look like florid
  • 10:03mania. And so in in
  • 10:05these five clusters,
  • 10:07I've described to you, a
  • 10:08syndromal picture that is, I'm
  • 10:10sure, familiar to to many
  • 10:11of you
  • 10:13that probably includes several different
  • 10:15diseases that we currently
  • 10:17today cluster as schizophrenia or
  • 10:19the schizophrenias.
  • 10:21I think the next slide,
  • 10:23will will describe how we
  • 10:25currently classify this in the
  • 10:27DSM five. And,
  • 10:31one,
  • 10:32psychiatrist has described this as
  • 10:33a field guide much like
  • 10:36a a book that has
  • 10:37pictures of birds that if
  • 10:39one were to enter a
  • 10:40forest, one could reliably identify
  • 10:42and name them.
  • 10:44And the point here, of
  • 10:45course, is that they're quite
  • 10:46reliable in that it helps
  • 10:48us have a common language
  • 10:49to describe,
  • 10:51aspects of the syndromes.
  • 10:53But, there has been,
  • 10:55lately, a lot of good
  • 10:57criticism that this might not
  • 10:59quite carve things in the
  • 11:00way that we would want
  • 11:01to.
  • 11:02So,
  • 11:04we still find the distinction,
  • 11:05though, between the non affective
  • 11:07psychotic disorders that I'll now
  • 11:09refer to as the schizophrenia
  • 11:11from the affect of psychosis.
  • 11:12And these are primary mood
  • 11:14disorders
  • 11:15that may also have
  • 11:16positive symptoms or psychotic symptoms
  • 11:19as part of their course.
  • 11:20In our care model and
  • 11:22in the evidence that that
  • 11:24follows,
  • 11:25I will mostly
  • 11:27be referring actually exclusively to
  • 11:29the non affective psychotic disorders
  • 11:30or the schizophrenias.
  • 11:32Next slide.
  • 11:35Another feature to keep in
  • 11:37mind is there
  • 11:38that these are illnesses that
  • 11:40typically onset in late adolescence
  • 11:42or early adulthood.
  • 11:44There is a difference between
  • 11:46the genders,
  • 11:47and,
  • 11:49there there has been some
  • 11:51evidence that there may be
  • 11:52another spike in the onset
  • 11:54of of psychosis
  • 11:56around the perimenopausal
  • 11:57period in females, although this
  • 11:59has come under some,
  • 12:01critique as well. But the
  • 12:03main point here is that
  • 12:04this emerges at a time
  • 12:06for most people between their
  • 12:08late teens and early twenties.
  • 12:10That is a particularly vulnerable
  • 12:12period for
  • 12:13development in general in a
  • 12:15time when people are leaving
  • 12:16home for college,
  • 12:19or beginning relationships
  • 12:21or beginning jobs. And so
  • 12:23these illnesses can be uniquely
  • 12:25disruptive because of the time
  • 12:26at which they tend to
  • 12:27emerge. Next slide.
  • 12:31Oh,
  • 12:32yeah. We you can,
  • 12:34this is to make the
  • 12:35the point I was trying
  • 12:36to make earlier, which is,
  • 12:38more recent studies that are
  • 12:40depicted on top right suggests
  • 12:42that
  • 12:43the incidence
  • 12:45in females
  • 12:46might actually be spread out
  • 12:47a lot more than previously
  • 12:49recognized.
  • 12:50And the other,
  • 12:51fact that's emerging is that
  • 12:53most,
  • 12:54early intervention clinics like ours
  • 12:56should expect to see a
  • 12:57preponderance of males and just
  • 12:59because of the nature of
  • 13:01the age of onset of
  • 13:03these illnesses.
  • 13:05Next
  • 13:06slide.
  • 13:08So,
  • 13:10although there are,
  • 13:12concerns about the way we
  • 13:14categorize these illnesses,
  • 13:16the category of the schizophrenia
  • 13:17is still very useful. And
  • 13:19in some ways, the slide
  • 13:20describes,
  • 13:21why.
  • 13:23We know a lot about
  • 13:24this cluster of syndromes, which
  • 13:26is that they tend to
  • 13:27have a period,
  • 13:29of what we call the
  • 13:31premorbid period where there are
  • 13:32no discernible symptoms or signs
  • 13:35of any illness.
  • 13:37So unlike disorders of very
  • 13:39early neurodevelopment
  • 13:40like autism where typically a
  • 13:42clinical diagnosis can be made
  • 13:44before the age of four
  • 13:45or five and sometimes sooner,
  • 13:48the early period,
  • 13:50in individuals who will go
  • 13:51on to have schizophrenia tends
  • 13:52to be remarkable for being
  • 13:55without any evidence of abnormalities
  • 13:57that are at least detectable
  • 13:59with our current, instruments.
  • 14:01But for most individuals who
  • 14:02end up with a psychotic
  • 14:04episode that's in the slide
  • 14:06marked as a first episode,
  • 14:08there is a period prior
  • 14:09to that of the so
  • 14:10called prodrome,
  • 14:12which is sometimes difficult to
  • 14:13distinguish from the
  • 14:15challenges of normal development at
  • 14:17the time and becomes clear
  • 14:19often only in retrospect when
  • 14:21family members will say, well,
  • 14:23actually, there was this time
  • 14:24in middle school when and
  • 14:26so on. So
  • 14:27this is an active area
  • 14:28of research to try to
  • 14:30disentangle
  • 14:31normal development from what is
  • 14:33actually a high risk period
  • 14:35for psychosis.
  • 14:36But at the first episode
  • 14:37is when it becomes,
  • 14:40apparent and clear and clinically,
  • 14:43reliable
  • 14:44or or which is to
  • 14:45say that clinicians can reliably
  • 14:47detect the presence of an
  • 14:49illness, that will benefit from
  • 14:51treatment.
  • 14:52Unfortunately, what follows after that
  • 14:54is the jagged yellow line
  • 14:56for most patients, and that's
  • 14:58meant to signify
  • 14:59repeated relapses,
  • 15:01often rehospitalizations,
  • 15:03periods when individuals are in
  • 15:05and then out and then
  • 15:06in and then out of
  • 15:08care. And over those first
  • 15:09three to five periods, which
  • 15:11is called the critical period,
  • 15:13most of the decline in
  • 15:15functioning begins to accumulate.
  • 15:17It is a time when
  • 15:19individuals will often lose
  • 15:21various forms of connection to
  • 15:23their community. They might drop
  • 15:25out of high school or
  • 15:26college. They might lose an
  • 15:27important relationship.
  • 15:29They might lose their jobs.
  • 15:31They may even become homeless.
  • 15:33They may become entangled with
  • 15:35the criminal justice system. And
  • 15:36it's also a period that's
  • 15:38at that's of highest risk
  • 15:40for suicide,
  • 15:42which is much higher than
  • 15:43the risk for any kind
  • 15:44of aggression, although it is
  • 15:46also a period of highest
  • 15:47risk for aggression against others.
  • 15:50It's also a period when
  • 15:51substance use might emerge as
  • 15:53a comorbidity.
  • 15:54And so this period has,
  • 15:57brought a lot of interest
  • 15:59from investigators
  • 16:00for several decades now as
  • 16:02an opportunity
  • 16:04appeared in which
  • 16:05if we could organize our
  • 16:07interventions and deliver them in
  • 16:08a way that's acceptable to
  • 16:10young individuals,
  • 16:11we might prevent much of
  • 16:13the morbidity that accumulates over
  • 16:14these first three to five
  • 16:15years,
  • 16:17which would mean that the
  • 16:18plateau, which is the the
  • 16:20right end of the yellow
  • 16:21line where people usually end
  • 16:23up, might be lifted and
  • 16:25higher, ideally close to where
  • 16:27the premorbid line is, but
  • 16:28much higher than it is
  • 16:29today.
  • 16:31And substantially, this is the
  • 16:33goal of early intervention services
  • 16:35now around the world to
  • 16:37deliver,
  • 16:38the best treatments we can,
  • 16:40organized in the best way
  • 16:41we can, and as rapidly
  • 16:43as we can after the
  • 16:44first episode
  • 16:45to lift that plateau and
  • 16:47avoid a lot of the
  • 16:48unnecessary morbidity
  • 16:50and even mortality during this
  • 16:52early phase of the illness.
  • 16:54So this is the effort
  • 16:56to not just improve the
  • 16:57quality of care during the
  • 16:59critical period, but to also
  • 17:00reduce the DUP or the
  • 17:02duration of untreated psychosis. The
  • 17:04time from psychosis onset to
  • 17:06the initiation
  • 17:07of,
  • 17:08what we would all consider
  • 17:09to be best practice care.
  • 17:11The two white lines,
  • 17:13a and c that you
  • 17:15can see are meant to
  • 17:16signify that there is heterogeneity.
  • 17:18There are some individuals who
  • 17:19have a first episode, and
  • 17:20as far as we can
  • 17:21tell, do not have another.
  • 17:24And we don't know much
  • 17:25about them because they tend
  • 17:26to not accumulate
  • 17:28around clinical sites and even
  • 17:30research centers. But there is
  • 17:32a small minority of individuals
  • 17:34who may not require ongoing
  • 17:36care, and we still don't
  • 17:37know how to predict who
  • 17:39those will be.
  • 17:40And there is another small
  • 17:42minority, eight to nine percent,
  • 17:43certainly less than ten percent,
  • 17:45who are refractory
  • 17:47to our current treatments. And
  • 17:49what I mean by that
  • 17:50is that we don't yet
  • 17:51have good enough treatments to
  • 17:53improve their symptoms,
  • 17:55and often their level of
  • 17:56functioning,
  • 17:57but are deserving of our
  • 17:59care and are often the
  • 18:00individuals who are overrepresented
  • 18:03in,
  • 18:04community mental health centers and
  • 18:05chronic care centers
  • 18:07and who require assistance with,
  • 18:09activities of daily living, with
  • 18:11housing, and so on.
  • 18:14You can go to the
  • 18:14next slide,
  • 18:17Laura. Oh, I I think,
  • 18:18this just rehearses what I
  • 18:19already said. So,
  • 18:22we can go to the
  • 18:23next slide.
  • 18:26This is to make the
  • 18:27point again that there is
  • 18:28a lot of prognostic heterogeneity,
  • 18:30and, these are individuals
  • 18:34on the left,
  • 18:36Ellen Sachs, John Nash, and
  • 18:37Cecilia who
  • 18:39whether or not they had
  • 18:40an illness are extraordinary individuals
  • 18:42who happen to be afflicted
  • 18:44with a psychotic illness and
  • 18:45have, either written about it
  • 18:47or presented about it in
  • 18:49ways that have improved all
  • 18:50of our understandings of this
  • 18:51illness.
  • 18:53And on the bottom right
  • 18:54is just to make the
  • 18:55point that that,
  • 18:56old image of,
  • 18:58Felix Garcia, this is a
  • 19:00flamenco dancer who was a
  • 19:01friend of the painter Picasso,
  • 19:04reflects a,
  • 19:05is not reflective really
  • 19:08of the course of most
  • 19:09people with schizophrenia.
  • 19:11However, it still occupies
  • 19:14much of the public imagination
  • 19:15and media representations of psychosis.
  • 19:18As I mentioned, it's less
  • 19:19probably than ten percent of
  • 19:20individuals
  • 19:22who will not respond to
  • 19:23currently available treatments.
  • 19:26But all too often, there's
  • 19:27a a nihilism
  • 19:29about what is possible for
  • 19:30these individuals.
  • 19:32And it's why I've presented
  • 19:33these pictures from a time
  • 19:35when we had really no
  • 19:37evidence based interventions for people
  • 19:39with these illnesses, and that
  • 19:40is not the case anymore.
  • 19:42Next slide.
  • 19:45This is just to make
  • 19:46the point that in usual
  • 19:47systems of care,
  • 19:50the most recent review suggest
  • 19:52that less than one third
  • 19:53will recover, and the definition
  • 19:56of recovery here was quite
  • 19:57stringent. It was returning to
  • 19:59their premorbid level of functioning.
  • 20:01But if one were to
  • 20:02expand the notion of recovery
  • 20:04to include,
  • 20:06living a meaningful life in
  • 20:07the community, having work or
  • 20:09school, family, and engagement,
  • 20:11that number is actually considerably
  • 20:13higher,
  • 20:14but much depends on the
  • 20:15quality of access and the
  • 20:17quality of care provided in
  • 20:18the critical period to be
  • 20:20able to reach higher levels.
  • 20:22These illnesses are very costly,
  • 20:24And as many of us
  • 20:26will probably intuitively understand,
  • 20:29the initial costs are driven
  • 20:31by so called direct health
  • 20:32care costs, emergency room visits,
  • 20:35inpatient hospitalizations.
  • 20:37But in fact, over the
  • 20:38life course, the largest source
  • 20:40of costs are indirect, and
  • 20:41these are
  • 20:43the cost of losing someone
  • 20:44to the labor market who's
  • 20:45not able to contribute to
  • 20:47the economy.
  • 20:48The cost of family caregiving,
  • 20:50for example, individuals who have
  • 20:51to leave work,
  • 20:53or work less in order
  • 20:54to care for a young
  • 20:55individual with a poorly, managed
  • 20:57or poorly treated illness.
  • 20:59And by way of comparison,
  • 21:01since these numbers can seem
  • 21:02quite abstract,
  • 21:04far more common affective illnesses,
  • 21:06including depressive disorders,
  • 21:09are not much lot greater
  • 21:11in terms of cost than
  • 21:13schizophrenia spectrum disorders that are
  • 21:15far less common. And it's
  • 21:16just to make the point
  • 21:17that these illnesses
  • 21:19amongst the serious mental illnesses
  • 21:21punch well above their weight
  • 21:23in terms of the burden
  • 21:24they exact on individuals,
  • 21:26on families, and on society
  • 21:27at large.
  • 21:28And so it's well worth
  • 21:30our efforts to improve the
  • 21:32outcomes that we can get
  • 21:33from
  • 21:34delivering what we know works
  • 21:36to individuals in a timely
  • 21:38way that's also acceptable to
  • 21:40them. And that's mostly what
  • 21:41I'll be following up to
  • 21:43present evidence on,
  • 21:45going forward. So we can
  • 21:46go to the next slide.
  • 21:51So yes. So they're they're
  • 21:52distressing. They're disabling. They're costly.
  • 21:55This idea of thinking of
  • 21:57them as chronic illnesses of
  • 21:58the young, I find useful.
  • 22:01Most chronic illnesses like diabetes,
  • 22:03for example,
  • 22:05and congestive heart disease,
  • 22:09usually onset later on. These
  • 22:11are illnesses of of late,
  • 22:13and middle age.
  • 22:16Serious mental illnesses of which
  • 22:17psychotic disorders are are one
  • 22:19are different in that they
  • 22:20strike individuals at a time
  • 22:22of otherwise peak physical health.
  • 22:25But they are often chronic,
  • 22:27and they require
  • 22:29attention,
  • 22:30not least because they're striking
  • 22:32individuals who are usually not
  • 22:34in medical care for other
  • 22:36reasons. They're often,
  • 22:38have have stopped seeing their
  • 22:39pediatricians
  • 22:40and are not yet seeing
  • 22:42their internists,
  • 22:44but in fact, do need
  • 22:45attention for illnesses that if
  • 22:46not treated well will result
  • 22:48in chronic disability that rivals
  • 22:51and sometimes exceeds many other
  • 22:52chronic medical illnesses.
  • 22:55So now we we can
  • 22:56move on to talk about
  • 22:57good news and the opportunities
  • 22:58we have. We can go
  • 22:59to the next slide.
  • 23:01I I wanted to spend
  • 23:02this introductory session,
  • 23:05presenting some of the evidence,
  • 23:07which
  • 23:07I'm assuming many of you
  • 23:09may already be familiar with.
  • 23:11But I think it's useful
  • 23:12to talk a little bit
  • 23:12about why it is,
  • 23:14we believe this care pathway
  • 23:16that we've developed at step
  • 23:18represents,
  • 23:19good evidence for what might
  • 23:21improve these outcomes and lift
  • 23:22that platter over time.
  • 23:24Next slide.
  • 23:27So this is to, describe
  • 23:29the current state of of
  • 23:30practice in Connecticut.
  • 23:32Some of you may know
  • 23:33of the Prime Clinic, which
  • 23:35is our sister clinic here
  • 23:36at Yale and also based
  • 23:38at CMHC like STEP, which
  • 23:40is focused on this period
  • 23:41before the onset of the
  • 23:43first episode.
  • 23:44And this is in the
  • 23:45main, a very active and
  • 23:47exciting research enterprise in which
  • 23:49many of us are involved
  • 23:51to both try and develop
  • 23:53better ways to predict who
  • 23:55will turn out to have
  • 23:56a psychotic illness and then
  • 23:57to find ways to intervene
  • 23:59to either delay or prevent,
  • 24:01the onset of these illnesses.
  • 24:03This is obviously,
  • 24:05these are these are not
  • 24:06interventions that are are yet
  • 24:08ready for implementation,
  • 24:09But we hope in the
  • 24:10future to be able to
  • 24:12have evidence to be able
  • 24:14to engage in this kind
  • 24:15of preventative,
  • 24:16initiative.
  • 24:18The the current,
  • 24:19state of the art in
  • 24:20terms of delivery
  • 24:21begins after the first episode
  • 24:24where steps early intervention service
  • 24:26seeks to both reduce delays
  • 24:28and also improve
  • 24:30the quality of care
  • 24:32and thereby improve outcomes.
  • 24:34And then, of course, we
  • 24:35have many excellent,
  • 24:38service providers for chronic psychosis
  • 24:40care across the state.
  • 24:43And based on on data
  • 24:45published from around the world,
  • 24:47it appears that under usual
  • 24:48systems of care that do
  • 24:50not have early intervention services,
  • 24:53most individuals
  • 24:54begin to really engage with
  • 24:55regular outpatient care
  • 24:58in in the period of
  • 24:59a plateau all the way
  • 25:00to the right. That is
  • 25:01to say, after after a
  • 25:03time in which they've already
  • 25:05lost
  • 25:06much of the psychosocial
  • 25:07function,
  • 25:09that in the usual course
  • 25:10of care, they will begin
  • 25:12to recover very, very slowly
  • 25:14over time. So the usual
  • 25:15course of these illnesses is
  • 25:17actually one of recovery,
  • 25:19not deterioration.
  • 25:20However, the recovery,
  • 25:22begins from much lower plateau
  • 25:24and proceeds often very slowly,
  • 25:26depriving many of these individuals
  • 25:28of the highest level of
  • 25:29functioning
  • 25:30and the most,
  • 25:32the highest quality of life
  • 25:33and social engagement they could
  • 25:34have had
  • 25:36if they had been,
  • 25:37given often
  • 25:39substantially the same kinds of
  • 25:40treatment earlier in the course
  • 25:42of the illness. And we'll
  • 25:43I'll say more about this,
  • 25:45in the upcoming,
  • 25:46slides.
  • 25:49This is a a summary
  • 25:51slide that I'll provide a
  • 25:52little more detail on. But,
  • 25:54the good news is that
  • 25:56both early detection that is
  • 25:58simply
  • 25:59providing care earlier without necessarily
  • 26:02enriching the care in any
  • 26:03way has a durable effect
  • 26:05on outcome that's measurable ten
  • 26:07and even twenty years later.
  • 26:09And this was based on
  • 26:10a study done in Norway
  • 26:12where,
  • 26:13outpatient care that will be
  • 26:14very recognizable to all of
  • 26:16us was just delivered much,
  • 26:17much earlier after psychosis onset.
  • 26:21Also, there is, more evidence
  • 26:23because these are studies that
  • 26:25are somewhat easier to do
  • 26:27that even if one did
  • 26:28not reduce,
  • 26:29the duration of untreated psychosis,
  • 26:31that is to say without
  • 26:33early detection,
  • 26:34simply improving the quality of
  • 26:36care,
  • 26:37after
  • 26:39individuals
  • 26:40self present or are referred
  • 26:42to to outpatient services can
  • 26:44also improve outcomes. And I've
  • 26:46listed some of the studies
  • 26:47for those who would like
  • 26:48to to look up the
  • 26:49references.
  • 26:50The OPUS trial in the
  • 26:51United Kingdom,
  • 26:53I'm sorry, in Denmark, the
  • 26:55Lambert study in the United
  • 26:56Kingdom. And then in the
  • 26:57US, the first two studies
  • 26:59that,
  • 27:00tested
  • 27:02a specialized
  • 27:03team based approach to care,
  • 27:04which was our clinic in
  • 27:06step, and then the RAISE
  • 27:08studies that did this over
  • 27:10twenty two different
  • 27:12sites across the US.
  • 27:14All are showing consistently
  • 27:16improvements in outcome measured at
  • 27:18two years after initiation of
  • 27:20treatment. I can go to
  • 27:21the next slide.
  • 27:24So a little more about
  • 27:25us.
  • 27:26We
  • 27:27planned a pragmatic trial,
  • 27:30that ran from two thousand
  • 27:31seven to two thousand thirteen,
  • 27:33and we we built it
  • 27:35so that it would recruit
  • 27:36very broadly. We provide interventions
  • 27:38that we thought would be
  • 27:39feasible at a place like
  • 27:40CMHC
  • 27:41in ambulatory,
  • 27:43clinics,
  • 27:44and we measured outcomes that
  • 27:45we thought would be most
  • 27:46relevant for,
  • 27:48the the kinds of,
  • 27:49evaluations that these services should
  • 27:52be subjected to.
  • 27:55The clinic is based at
  • 27:56CMHC, which as many of
  • 27:57you may know is a
  • 27:58public academic collaboration.
  • 28:01And
  • 28:02we,
  • 28:03when we initiated the service,
  • 28:06decided,
  • 28:07to in to be as
  • 28:08inclusive as possible
  • 28:10across
  • 28:11barriers
  • 28:12of insurance,
  • 28:13and catchment. So step,
  • 28:15then as it does now,
  • 28:17admits individuals,
  • 28:19whether or not they have
  • 28:20private or public insurance.
  • 28:23And, initially, we admitted individuals
  • 28:25anywhere in the state. They
  • 28:26didn't have to be in
  • 28:27the catchment of CMHC.
  • 28:30And we also,
  • 28:31admitted individuals who were sixteen
  • 28:33and seventeen years old in
  • 28:35order to capture the the
  • 28:37widest range of individuals who
  • 28:39were truly in the first
  • 28:40episode of these illnesses.
  • 28:42Next slide.
  • 28:45This is just a a
  • 28:46reference slide for those who
  • 28:48want to look back later
  • 28:49on the design of the
  • 28:50trial.
  • 28:51The point,
  • 28:52here was that while the
  • 28:54initial studies
  • 28:56in Denmark and the UK
  • 28:58had tested a very intensive
  • 29:00approach to treatment, essentially, act
  • 29:02level care
  • 29:04where clinician to patient ratios
  • 29:06were ten or or twelve
  • 29:07to one. I'm sorry. Patient
  • 29:09to clinician ratios were ten
  • 29:10or twelve to one. What
  • 29:12we tested here was a
  • 29:13pragmatic study where, clinicians at
  • 29:16CMHC were often carrying
  • 29:18a patient loads of anywhere
  • 29:19from forty to fifty individuals,
  • 29:22of whom a subset were
  • 29:23first episode psychosis patients.
  • 29:26And we randomized
  • 29:28all
  • 29:32people presenting this to either
  • 29:34come into care at step
  • 29:35or to be randomized to
  • 29:36the kind of care they
  • 29:37would ordinarily get depending on
  • 29:39their insurance status. So a
  • 29:40significant number were referred out
  • 29:42into the community if they
  • 29:44had commercial insurance,
  • 29:45while those who were eligible
  • 29:47for CMHC care received care
  • 29:49elsewhere in other teams in
  • 29:50the building.
  • 29:52Next slide.
  • 29:55So this is a summary
  • 29:56slide of our outcomes, which
  • 29:57we have published for those,
  • 29:59who wanna look at the
  • 30:00details
  • 30:01of the design and the
  • 30:02results.
  • 30:03But I'm presenting here just
  • 30:04the two main outcomes. The
  • 30:06pairs of,
  • 30:08bars on the left
  • 30:09are hospitalization
  • 30:11outcomes
  • 30:13and describe how both in
  • 30:15step and in usual treatment,
  • 30:16there was a reduction in
  • 30:17hospitalization
  • 30:18as you might expect when
  • 30:20individuals enter care. But the
  • 30:22reduction in step was significantly
  • 30:24greater
  • 30:25over the first year.
  • 30:26And interestingly,
  • 30:28on the outcomes that patients
  • 30:29and families cared more about,
  • 30:31which is
  • 30:31vocational engagement, so were they
  • 30:34engaged in at least part
  • 30:35time school or work or
  • 30:36better,
  • 30:38the fraction of individuals
  • 30:39who remained,
  • 30:41in the labor
  • 30:42force was significantly higher in
  • 30:44step. So only eight percent
  • 30:47had essentially dropped out and
  • 30:48stopped looking for work or
  • 30:49school, whereas this number was
  • 30:51up to a third
  • 30:53in people in usual care,
  • 30:54which is striking given that
  • 30:56these were typically individuals in
  • 30:58their early twenties.
  • 31:00Next slide.
  • 31:04For those who are interested
  • 31:05in the in the costs,
  • 31:07we I am showing here
  • 31:08a slide describing
  • 31:09the drive the biggest driver
  • 31:11of direct cost, which is
  • 31:12hospitalization.
  • 31:13And on the left is
  • 31:14a steady reduction
  • 31:16every six months after entry
  • 31:18into step, compared to the
  • 31:20six months prior.
  • 31:22This occurred as well in
  • 31:24usual treatment, which again is
  • 31:26a finding when individuals begin
  • 31:28care early in the course,
  • 31:29but it was not nearly
  • 31:30as dramatic and remained quite
  • 31:32high even one year after
  • 31:34entry into usual care.
  • 31:38Next slide.
  • 31:40So it's hard slide to
  • 31:41see all the results, but
  • 31:42the the main point to
  • 31:43make here is that,
  • 31:45in a review of ten
  • 31:47experimental studies from around the
  • 31:49world of which STEP was
  • 31:51one,
  • 31:52The data suggests in this
  • 31:53review that
  • 31:55these kinds of specialty early
  • 31:57intervention services
  • 31:59have positive effects on a
  • 32:00variety of outcomes, including symptoms,
  • 32:03psychiatric hospitalization,
  • 32:05and also global functioning and
  • 32:07measures of quality of life.
  • 32:08So,
  • 32:10the effects the positive effects
  • 32:12of receiving care within these
  • 32:14specialty teams are pervasive,
  • 32:16and big enough in size
  • 32:18to be worthy of an
  • 32:19investment,
  • 32:21by health care services.
  • 32:23Next slide.
  • 32:28Another review. And,
  • 32:30here again, the focus was
  • 32:32on the risk of relapse
  • 32:33or readmission,
  • 32:35offered variety of studies from
  • 32:36around the world. And STEP
  • 32:38was with its focus really
  • 32:40in the US on reducing
  • 32:41relapse and rehospitalization,
  • 32:44given
  • 32:44how expensive and disruptive these
  • 32:46can be, was a positive
  • 32:48outlier and, again, demonstrating a
  • 32:50reduction,
  • 32:52in favor of our model
  • 32:53of care versus usual treatment.
  • 32:56And, again, I've left the
  • 32:57reference there for those who
  • 32:58want to look at the
  • 32:58details. Thanks, Laura. You can
  • 33:00go to the next slide.
  • 33:03So,
  • 33:04just a summary of sort
  • 33:05of the evolution and to
  • 33:06make the point that,
  • 33:08while the idea of doing
  • 33:09early intervention
  • 33:10is not new,
  • 33:12in fact, it goes back
  • 33:13to the nineteen hundreds when,
  • 33:16these illnesses were first described.
  • 33:18It was in two thousand
  • 33:20and five when two
  • 33:22experimental studies demonstrated
  • 33:24that
  • 33:25these kinds of services can
  • 33:27have a significant
  • 33:28impact on outcomes.
  • 33:31It took another ten years
  • 33:32before we were able to
  • 33:34adapt and replicate those studies
  • 33:36in the US.
  • 33:38And since then,
  • 33:40we have good good data
  • 33:42on costs
  • 33:43and,
  • 33:44the the health economic benefits
  • 33:46of investing in these kinds
  • 33:48of services
  • 33:49for these patients.
  • 33:50So we have data on
  • 33:52efficacy,
  • 33:53on effectiveness, which is the
  • 33:55more real world question.
  • 33:57We have data on cost,
  • 33:59and the and whether the
  • 34:00investments made are are worth
  • 34:02it. I think the big
  • 34:03question
  • 34:04now,
  • 34:05especially in the US is,
  • 34:06can these models that have
  • 34:08demonstrated impact,
  • 34:09be scaled across community settings?
  • 34:13And I list a few
  • 34:14states in the US that
  • 34:15have led on statewide
  • 34:17implementations
  • 34:18of these models of care.
  • 34:19And we're very excited to
  • 34:21be
  • 34:24thinking and hopefully launching
  • 34:26a Connecticut
  • 34:27based response that,
  • 34:29under this learning collaborative,
  • 34:32will I hope emerge over
  • 34:33the next few years where
  • 34:34we can deliver on improved
  • 34:36access
  • 34:37and treatment outcomes,
  • 34:39for these individuals.
  • 34:41Next slide.
  • 34:43So I wanted to say
  • 34:44a little bit about,
  • 34:48a study we did at
  • 34:50at STEP,
  • 34:51to improve
  • 34:53access to care,
  • 34:55both in terms of the
  • 34:56duration of untreated psychosis, but
  • 34:58also the quality of the
  • 34:59pathways,
  • 35:00to care.
  • 35:02And we,
  • 35:03completed what is the first
  • 35:05US experimental test of an
  • 35:07early detection,
  • 35:09campaign that that was targeting
  • 35:12ten towns around step to
  • 35:13reduce delays to care. The
  • 35:15campaign was called mind map,
  • 35:16and you can see here
  • 35:17a couple of the,
  • 35:19sort of pictures of of
  • 35:21participants who helped us in
  • 35:22the campaign.
  • 35:23Next slide.
  • 35:28The
  • 35:29the study was,
  • 35:31a replication of of a
  • 35:32previous study in Norway, which,
  • 35:35is the only other
  • 35:36study now that has demonstrated
  • 35:39a reduction in the duration
  • 35:40of untreated psychosis
  • 35:42across an entire community.
  • 35:44And
  • 35:45like the Norwegian study,
  • 35:47we had a site which
  • 35:49was STEP in Southern Connecticut
  • 35:51where we
  • 35:52ran a campaign to reduce
  • 35:53delays to care. And we
  • 35:55had a control site,
  • 35:56which was a a clinic
  • 35:58much like ours in Metropolitan
  • 36:00Boston,
  • 36:02which provided very similar care,
  • 36:04but unlike us did not
  • 36:05run an early detection campaign.
  • 36:08And the idea here was
  • 36:09to be able to demonstrate
  • 36:10that the campaign was responsible
  • 36:12for
  • 36:13the improvements in Pathways to
  • 36:14Care and DUP,
  • 36:16and this wasn't some other,
  • 36:19unrelated variable either in terms
  • 36:21of
  • 36:22changes in health care policy
  • 36:24or insurance coverage that could
  • 36:26explain these these differences between
  • 36:28the sites.
  • 36:30Next slide.
  • 36:33So the the campaign that
  • 36:34we ran that some of
  • 36:35you may have heard of
  • 36:36included three major components. One
  • 36:38was, focused on the public,
  • 36:40using social and mass media.
  • 36:42The another leg was focused
  • 36:44on professionals,
  • 36:46primary care and behavioral health
  • 36:48care agencies,
  • 36:50who would be referral sources
  • 36:51to our clinic.
  • 36:53And the third was really
  • 36:54a
  • 36:55performance improvement
  • 36:57approach to reduce wait times
  • 36:58at our front door and
  • 36:59bring people into care rapidly
  • 37:02after they were referred to
  • 37:03us. Next slide.
  • 37:06There's here are some
  • 37:08pictures really of the various
  • 37:10kinds of messaging we used
  • 37:12in social and mass media.
  • 37:13Top left is our website
  • 37:14we had developed.
  • 37:16Top right is a description
  • 37:17of our care model,
  • 37:19and then various messages that
  • 37:20we put out in media,
  • 37:22to increase awareness, but also
  • 37:24to increase referrals of individuals
  • 37:27to our service. Next slide.
  • 37:32On the top is,
  • 37:33we use skins on local
  • 37:35buses to
  • 37:37transmit our message that people
  • 37:39could call a referral number
  • 37:41and,
  • 37:42be provided information
  • 37:44and an active assistance to
  • 37:46enter into care in our
  • 37:47clinic.
  • 37:48We were on local TV
  • 37:49and local newspapers.
  • 37:51Go to the next slide.
  • 37:55And
  • 37:56in our professional outreach and
  • 37:57detailing, we identified several distinct
  • 37:59sectors in our region
  • 38:01that we did outreach,
  • 38:04to and also then conducted
  • 38:07frequent detailing interactions, phone calls,
  • 38:09and visits to people's workplaces
  • 38:12to inform them about the
  • 38:13work in our clinic and
  • 38:14to encourage them to refer
  • 38:16individuals to us, as soon
  • 38:17as possible.
  • 38:19Next slide.
  • 38:21Some pictures of our campaign
  • 38:23launch top right with,
  • 38:25with leadership
  • 38:26from the state, including the
  • 38:28Department of Mental Health, the
  • 38:30governor's office, our own department,
  • 38:32and then many public events
  • 38:34in which we were involved
  • 38:35to
  • 38:36interact with the public, educate
  • 38:38them, and then enable them
  • 38:39to make rapid referrals to
  • 38:40our service.
  • 38:42Next slide.
  • 38:45So this is, I I
  • 38:46could say a lot more
  • 38:47about the details of the
  • 38:48campaign. This is sort of
  • 38:49the bottom line is that
  • 38:50we were able to
  • 38:52have
  • 38:52the duration of untreated psychosis
  • 38:55across ten target towns in
  • 38:57our region.
  • 38:58I give them in different
  • 38:59units for people who prefer
  • 39:01thinking in days versus weeks.
  • 39:03But by way of context,
  • 39:04our reduction from ten to
  • 39:06five months was very similar
  • 39:08in size to
  • 39:09the the the study in
  • 39:11Norway.
  • 39:12And we know from the
  • 39:13largest study in the US
  • 39:15that
  • 39:16the average or median DUP
  • 39:18is closer to seventy four
  • 39:20weeks. So while we started
  • 39:22off,
  • 39:24in our region
  • 39:25at less than that about
  • 39:26forty five weeks,
  • 39:29we were able to reduce
  • 39:30it considerably,
  • 39:31and we are
  • 39:33happily now publishing
  • 39:35results showing that this reduction
  • 39:37translated
  • 39:38to improved presentations
  • 39:40to our clinic
  • 39:41and also,
  • 39:43improvements in outcomes six months
  • 39:45and a year later.
  • 39:47You can go to the
  • 39:48next slide.
  • 39:51Oh, and and I put
  • 39:51this up here also because
  • 39:53we learned many lessons
  • 39:55about,
  • 39:56the pathways to care, the
  • 39:58the the routes that people
  • 40:00took on
  • 40:02their way to our clinic,
  • 40:04through
  • 40:05questions we asked of them
  • 40:06and their family members and
  • 40:07referral sources.
  • 40:09And this network graph is
  • 40:10just a visual display of
  • 40:12a significant,
  • 40:13number of people who came
  • 40:15to us where from the
  • 40:16the time of the onset
  • 40:17of symptoms
  • 40:18to the first help seeking
  • 40:20individual, which is often the
  • 40:21family member,
  • 40:23pathways, as you can see,
  • 40:24often ran first to the
  • 40:26ED, the emergency department, and
  • 40:28then an inpatient unit, and
  • 40:30then across,
  • 40:31the graph to STEP. But
  • 40:33there were, of course, myriad
  • 40:34other ways in which people
  • 40:35might,
  • 40:36seek help multiple times from
  • 40:39many different actors in a
  • 40:40local network before they are
  • 40:42routed to a clinic like
  • 40:43STEP in a region. So
  • 40:44it it illustrates, I think,
  • 40:45what many of you, I'm
  • 40:47sure, have already heard in
  • 40:48the histories of your patients
  • 40:50that,
  • 40:51go getting to care and
  • 40:53finding out where to go
  • 40:54to care can be quite
  • 40:55a torturous journey that can
  • 40:57take a lot of
  • 40:59interactions, involve many different members
  • 41:01of a local community
  • 41:03who can all be organized,
  • 41:06to help improve
  • 41:08and hasten these pathways,
  • 41:10but who can also
  • 41:11present in some ways in
  • 41:13their own way as
  • 41:14barriers or sources of delay
  • 41:17if they do not understand
  • 41:18what they're confronting and cannot
  • 41:20cooperate to help a person,
  • 41:22access care quickly.
  • 41:24Next slide, please.
  • 41:28So to summarize,
  • 41:29I I have rushed through
  • 41:31a lot of,
  • 41:32work done over now almost
  • 41:34fifteen years, but,
  • 41:36the good news is that
  • 41:37we have been able to
  • 41:38demonstrate
  • 41:40utilizing
  • 41:40tools that, we believe exist
  • 41:43and are available to all
  • 41:44of us
  • 41:45to improve both the outcomes
  • 41:46of care that is the
  • 41:47quality,
  • 41:48but also
  • 41:50reduce delays and improve access
  • 41:52pathways
  • 41:53within this defined catchment,
  • 41:56around step.
  • 41:58And we think that this
  • 41:59partnership
  • 42:00that allowed us to,
  • 42:02apply for grants and test
  • 42:04these models of care
  • 42:07has greater relevance for other
  • 42:09regions of the state. And
  • 42:10so this is really the
  • 42:11question that we are confronting,
  • 42:13and we hope to work
  • 42:14with all of you around
  • 42:16whether we can leverage this
  • 42:17to improve access and outcomes
  • 42:19statewide.
  • 42:21I think I have just
  • 42:22one more slide.
  • 42:25So we think of what
  • 42:26we've done in these ten
  • 42:28towns,
  • 42:29around step as a kind
  • 42:31of prototype or a model
  • 42:32that we've been running now
  • 42:33since twenty fifteen.
  • 42:35And the different modules that
  • 42:37Laura,
  • 42:38initially outlined and will be
  • 42:40returning to in this seminar
  • 42:43really describe the care pathway
  • 42:45that we have constructed
  • 42:46that we have announced
  • 42:48seeking to deliver to every
  • 42:51eligible individual in these ten
  • 42:53towns.
  • 42:54And in trying to do
  • 42:55this, we see our early
  • 42:57intervention service as really an
  • 42:59integrator
  • 43:00of the activities of all
  • 43:01these different
  • 43:03stakeholders
  • 43:04across education,
  • 43:06criminal justice, social welfare,
  • 43:09to both engage them in
  • 43:10helping us improve
  • 43:12access pathways to our service
  • 43:14in the region,
  • 43:15but also assisting us as
  • 43:17they go through care in
  • 43:18terms of serving as resources
  • 43:20for, our patients,
  • 43:22as they receive our care
  • 43:23in these modules and then
  • 43:25transfer back to community based
  • 43:27care,
  • 43:28close to where they live
  • 43:29in the region.
  • 43:32I think we have another
  • 43:34slide. Oh, yes. So
  • 43:36so,
  • 43:37this is something we'll return
  • 43:38to in the last session
  • 43:40of the course.
  • 43:42These sessions are primarily to
  • 43:43introduce you to our care
  • 43:44pathway
  • 43:45and to have you understand,
  • 43:48why and how we do
  • 43:49what we do at STEP.
  • 43:51And, of course, then to
  • 43:52consider
  • 43:53to what degree this is
  • 43:55relevant to improving care across
  • 43:57the state.
  • 43:59And we think of the
  • 44:00learning health collaborative
  • 44:01as
  • 44:02a vehicle to engage with
  • 44:04all of you in this
  • 44:05partnership.
  • 44:07This map here,
  • 44:09has color coded the five
  • 44:11different regions across the state
  • 44:12that, Demus defines.
  • 44:15And based on census data
  • 44:17and epidemiologic
  • 44:18studies,
  • 44:19we have,
  • 44:20tried to guesstimate how many
  • 44:22new cases of psychosis
  • 44:24we might expect in each
  • 44:25region based on the age
  • 44:27distribution
  • 44:28of the populations.
  • 44:29So on the bottom left
  • 44:31is the example of region
  • 44:32two where STEP is,
  • 44:34where we can get a
  • 44:35rough estimate of about ninety
  • 44:37four cases a year, which
  • 44:39would mean close to about
  • 44:40three hundred cases that would
  • 44:42be eligible
  • 44:43for a an early intervention
  • 44:45service that took individuals
  • 44:47within the first three years,
  • 44:48say, of psychosis onset.
  • 44:51The red,
  • 44:53icons
  • 44:54are all the local mental
  • 44:55health agencies, the lead mental
  • 44:57health agencies, and which we
  • 44:59see as the regional experts
  • 45:01on behavioral health services across
  • 45:03the state that we're hoping
  • 45:04to partner with to think
  • 45:06through how we can
  • 45:07adapt and disseminate
  • 45:10this this prototype model really
  • 45:13to,
  • 45:14improve
  • 45:15both access and care outcomes
  • 45:18for all individuals,
  • 45:19no matter where they happen
  • 45:21to be in the state.
  • 45:23That's that's the the,
  • 45:25ambition of,
  • 45:26the learning how collaborative over
  • 45:28the long term. And we're
  • 45:29hoping over the next few
  • 45:30sessions to give you
  • 45:33a more granular sense of
  • 45:34how we actually provide care
  • 45:37at step in these ten
  • 45:38towns and improve access.
  • 45:40So you'll be in a
  • 45:41position to think about how
  • 45:42you might think about this
  • 45:44in your own region,
  • 45:46where
  • 45:47your agencies,
  • 45:49really are the key node,
  • 45:51for
  • 45:52potentially
  • 45:53organizing care in the region,
  • 45:55but certainly delivering care to
  • 45:56these individuals.
  • 45:58So I
  • 45:59I think we're good for
  • 46:01time, hopefully, for enough questions,
  • 46:02but I'll stop there.