Named the New York City Supportive Transition and Recovery Team (NYC START), this CTI team, composed of social workers and peer specialists, will offer care coordination, psycho-education and support services to New York City residents, age 18 to 30, who have been psychiatrically hospitalized for the first time ever due to psychosis.
The RedeAmericas, a NIMH-funded regional hub, held its annual meeting at the Institute of Psychiatry in Rio de Janeiro this week. The agenda focused on the CTI-Task Shifting randomized pilot study.
The Third International Conference on Practice Research in social work was held in June at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in NYC.
A newly published paper by Andrew Tomita of Columbia University and Dan Herman of Hunter College investigates the impact of CTI on the continuity of care following psychiatric hospitalization.
North Carolina Health News provides a detailed report on the new program that brings CTI to Orange and Chatham counties.
Two CTI-related studies were presented at the International Homelessness Research Conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
Practitioners and researchers from three Latin American countries in the NIMH-funded RedeAmericas regional mental health network spent the last two weeks of May in NYC where they received intensive training.
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The University of North Carolina School of Social Work has launched a CTI project that will provide services to over 200 persons with severe mental illness in Orange and Chatham counties. Led by faculty members Barbara B. Smith and Gary Cuddeback, the three-year project is also intended to promote the statewide adoption of the model. The
A meeting was held in Cordoba, Argentina, on November 26-27, 2012 of the leadership group of RedeAmericas, one of five NIMH-funded hubs for international mental health services research. Each hub serves as a center for multidisciplinary activities across a specific region. RedeAmericas research focuses on the mental health treatment gap in six Latin American cities –