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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.

The pandemic necessitated quick action to keep deaf and hard of hearing people in recovery connected to services. Thanks to innovation and teamwork, they're more connected than ever.

Laura Yoviene Sykes, PhD, Instructor in Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed Director of the Connecticut Early Psychosis Learning Health Network.

Philip Corlett, PhD receives an inaugural grant from the "Sound Health Initiative" of the National Institutes of Health.

Jessica Pollard, PhD, former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, has been named Director of Maine's Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services.

Vinod Srihari, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of NAMI Connecticut, the state chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

For young people at risk for developing psychosis, and their families, the PRIME Clinic expansion creates a new route to effective care.