Other Early Intervention resources

Get Help Early - Early Intervention Youth and Family website: http://www.gethelpearly.ca
Canadian Mental Health Association, Toronto Branch: http://www.toronto.cmha.ca
Available for download on the website:
• General information on mental health and mental illness
• Interactive stress test, Stress facts, coping with stress fact sheet
For a complete list of publications , go to this link: http://www.toronto.cmha.ca/c_what_we_do/wwd_publications.asp

Also available on the website:
CMHA Toronto Workshop descriptions and online Registration: Stress sense series, Mental Health Matters Series, Life Interrupted Series, NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program, Mental Health Works
CMHA National Project on Early Psychosis Intervention:: http://www.cmha.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-13-790
Available for download on the website: 'A Framework for Strategic Planning' : offers background information and relevant examples to provide policy direction for early intervention in psychosis. It describes key elements that should be considered by policy makers, providers and other stakeholders.

Also available for download in html format:
• What is Psychosis?
• Youth and Psychosis.....What Parents Should Know
• Early Intervention....Time is of the Essence
Also available for download:
Family to Family: For First-Episode Psychosis Families
CMHA National Online Store:: http://www.marketingisland.com/CMHA/pages/main.asp
Schizophrenia Society of Ontario: http://www.schizophrenia.on.ca

First Episode Pychosis/Mood disorder web sites:
The Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University.: http://moodgym.anu.edu.au
MoodGYM is a free, interactive internet-based program designed to prevent and decrease symptoms of depression. It consists of a number of modules, as each one builds upon material covered in earlier modules. The person will be presented with information, animated demonstrations, quizzes and “homework” exercises. The answers to the exercise are recorded in the person’s own personal moodGYM workbook. MoodGym also give the person feedback about his/her mental health, and the person can use the online exercise to work out how to handle life’s challenge.
New South Wales Health —Early Psychosis Program: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/policy/cmh/psych.html
Early Psychosis Australia: http://www.earlypsychosis.org/index.htm
Early Psychosis Intervention: http://www.cmha.ca/english/intrvent/
EPI- Fraser Health Authority Early Psychosis Intervention Program: http://www.psychosissucks.ca/epi/
EPPIC - Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre: http://www.eppic.org.au/
Initiative to Reduce the Impact of Schizophrenia: http://www.iris-initiative.org.uk/
International Early Psychosis Association: http://www.iepa.org.au/
Rethink | Early Intervention in Psychosis: http://www.rethink.org/earlyintervention/