Our purpose
TEIPN's purpose is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and the development and continuous improvement of a system of early intervention treatment and support so that consumers and families in Toronto experiencing their first episode of psychosis are identified quickly, receive the best combination of services and supports given their unique needs, and are supported in their recovery.
TEIPN believes in the following values and works to adhere to them in all that the Network does:
- Recovery: TEIPN members believe that people can and do recover from early psychosis. To best support recovery, early intervention in psychosis services should be individualized, consumer-centred, promote hope and be chosen by people in collaboration with their service-providing teams
- Access and engagement: TEIPN members believe that early intervention services should ensure early, easy, and equitable access and engagement; be youth- and diversity-oriented and capable; and facilitate supported transitions and connection to on-going supports for wellness
- Inclusion and equity: TEIPN members believe that early intervention services should be non-stigmatizing, non-discriminatory, culturally competent and as least intrusive as possible
- Collaboration and empowerment: TEIPN members believe that they share responsibility for providing coordinated early intervention services to people experiencing early psychosis and their families across the City of Toronto. TEIPN members also believe that consumers and families must be fully involved in the decisions that affect their lives and be provided with full information to make informed choices about their care and support.
- Education and support for families: TEIPN members believe that families are impacted by psychosis and impact psychosis; are resilient and go through their own recovery processes; are a critical and integral part of the individual's recovery process; and deserve education and support irrespective of whether the recovering individual wishes to access supports
- Accountability: TEIPN members believe in delivering evidence-based early intervention services and supports; developing and evaluation new and innovative service delivery approaches; and being accountable for the outcomes achieved through and resources expended in the delivery of early intervention in psychosis services and supports
TEIPN is working to accomplish the following objectives:
- Improve access to and engagement with early intervention in psychosis services and supports
- Deliver "best practice" early intervention in psychosis services and supports
- Raise community awareness and identification of first episode psychosis
- Provide education and support for families of people experiencing first episode psychosis
- Teach practitioner and community workers about how to recognize first episode psychosis, respond, and connect people to early intervention in psychosis services and supports
- Promote recovery and the resumption of regular lives following a first episode of psychosis
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