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Josina James, LCSW, clinical social worker at the Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis (STEP) Clinic located at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, has been appointed director of social work for the STEP Learning Collaborative.

Mindmap, the highly visible public education campaign that achieved successful early detection of first-episode psychosis in the greater New Haven area, will now scale across Connecticut.

Sarah Riley, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been named medical director of the Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis (STEP) Clinic at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

The STEP Learning Collaborative has trained its first cohort of 25 healthcare leaders and managers as part of its mission to expand access and care to people and families impacted by recent onset psychosis in Connecticut.

Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis (STEP), a collaborative program of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services and the Yale Department of Psychiatry, provides comprehensive care to people who are early in the course of psychotic illness to prevent symptoms from becoming disabling. STEP's early research work in coordinated specialty care treatment for early schizophrenia was recently featured by the National Institute of Mental Health on its website.

A new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open tracks the success of Mindmap, which was launched in 2015 by the Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis (STEP) clinic at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis in the New Haven area.

J. Corey Williams, MD, a graduate of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program, collaborated with Cenk Tek, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Vinod Srihari, MD, Professor of Psychiatry to conduct a systematic review of published evidence on clozapine prescribing disparities across racial and ethnic categories.