Attendance: Andrea Alves, Lauren Caruana, Kerri Nagy, Josette Morin, Dayna Rossi, Diana Urajnik, Heather McKee, Rameiya Param, John Riley, Brannon Senger, Aristotle Voineskos, Sara Traore, Lauren de Freitas, Victoria Villanueva, Lillian Duda, Dielle Miranda, Carol Maxwell, Anne-Marie Baker Devost
Action Items
Contact sites for April 16 case presentation – Rameiya
Extract research participant data for duration of untreated psychosis and share with sites – Andrea
Share Ontario Perception of Care (OPOC) survey with sites – Dr.Kozloff/Andrea
Main Updates/Decisions Made
REB: Received CAMH REB approval for recent amendment, will proceed with site REBs next
Clinician Training/Annual Meeting: planning 2 half-days in June
ECHO: post-cycle 2 evaluations and cycle 3 curriculum to be released soon
Patient Measures: sites to complete referral form for all clients who are asked (yes’s and no’s); research team to share participant’s symptom and functioning scores with sites
Administrative Updates
Review Impact Summary (see attached)
Site Meetings
Thanks to all sites for participating in the annual site meetings, we had great discussions and will be incorporating feedback into upcoming ECHOs and trainings
Annual Meeting/Booster Training
Planning for early June with a half-day clinician training, and a half day meeting to discuss progress/opportunities
No travel required this time – will be more convenient
Site lead feedback:
North Bay, Niagara, Thunder Bay prefer 2 half-day morning meetings, as less clients are booked in the mornings
Dayna will connect with the remaining sites to confirm
Half day training with activities to support training needs
Site leads to share staffs’ needs with PSSP or research team so we can create a useful training for clinicians
Will also be useful for new staff that have joined
If the sites have suggestion for training, and any new staff we can think about how to use that time to support them
CAMH REB
We have just received approval from CAMH REB for our recent amendments which include:
Option to text referrals for setting up research appointments
Option for family members to complete surveys via email instead of videocall
Research Recruitment Poster for sites
We will proceed with site REB submissions next
ECHO
ECHO Surveys/Evaluations
Will be sending out self-efficacy survey and post-echo evaluations to obtain feedback; have not confirmed dates for this yet
Also determining logistics for the qualitative interviews for ECHO
Upcoming Sessions
April 16th on CBT (Part 2) with case presentation TBD
May 7th on IRT (Part 2) with case presentation by Thunder Bay
Site Lead Updates
North Bay
Had a great meeting with the research/Slaight team
Liked the idea of a welcoming/orientation to NAV for clients that Slaight does, but might be hard with smaller number of clients
22 clients right now, clinicians have been busy with a move
Getting a new manager starting this week
Still seeing clients mostly virtually but option to meet face-to-face and come in for injections
Clinicians say that clients have not been in hospital, but might be feeling more low/isolating more, and hard it’s hard to encourage clients to do more when they can’t really go anywhere
Niagara
Clients are being seen virtually and in-person
High number of referrals and clients that are unwell
Have experienced high turnover and need more staff, but staff are persevering and working hard to serve clients with a high standard of care
Peer support started a walking group
Interested in tracking the duration of untreated psychosis for each client
Research team may be able to provide this information to sites for any clients that participate in research, as we conduct a thorough SCID interview
For the half-day clinician training, would look forward to Tallan being a client for a training scenario
Thunder Bay
Intakes are moving forward but some did not show or were not a fit so recruitment has lagged a little
Meeting with Janet to review Fidelity assessment and discuss some areas for improvement
Sudbury:
Influx of COVID cases at the hospital with 2 units on lockdown, including mental health inpatients
Nurses are being redeployed from community care, including an EPI nurse (for approx. 6 weeks)
The team is already quite small so will be strategizing for the next little while to provide best care
Recruitment
Recruitment Updates/Strategies