What to expect from CAPSTONE:
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1. Shared decision-making
The young adult and family are treatment team members creating a comprehensive treatment plan with CAPSTONE staff in all the service areas. Shared decision making allows everyone to make informed decisions about care. It is a collaborative process that takes into account the best clinical evidence available, as well as the young person’s values and preferences. The treatment plan is periodically revised to celebrate accomplishments, identify new needs and determine the length of time in CAPSTONE.
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2. Assessment
An initial psychiatric evaluation and assessment will be completed during the initial intake. To identify successes and ongoing needs, assessments will be repeated every 4-6 months.
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3. Treatment
Including Individual Resiliency
Training (IRT), psychiatric evaluation and medication management. Weekly individual treatment focuses on achievable goals identified on the treatment plan and the development of individual resiliency skills as the young adult learns to live with a psychotic disorder. Medications are prescribed and monitored every 2-4 weeks by a psychiatrist using protocols for the treatment of early psychosis. -
4. Peer support
Offers a supportive relationship with another young adult living with a serious mental illness. Services are available as needed to the individual.
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5. Supported employment/
education (SEE)Services support a young adult with fulfilling their educational goals or work/career goals. Examples are completing high school, enrolling in college and finding and keeping a job. Supports are weekly, flexible and individualized.
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6. Family education
Assists the family with understanding the young adult’s diagnosis, experiences and how to best support their family member in his or her journey to be successful, independent and achieve personal goals throughout adulthood. At CAPSTONE, we believe an individual’s recovery is best achieved through family support.
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7. Case management
Offers 24 hour/7 days per week mobile support to the young person and his or her family locating other needed services in the community and bridging communication and emergency needs during non-work hours.
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8. Weekly group therapy
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9. Monthly family support groups