What is NAVIGATE?
NAVIGATE is a comprehensive evidence-based treatment program created for patients who have had a first episode of psychosis. More broadly, NAVIGATE helps patients navigate the road to recovery from an episode of psychosis, including getting back to functioning well at home, school, work, and in the social world. Treatment is provided by a team of five mental health professionals who focus on helping patients work toward personal goals and get their life back on track.
NAVIGATE Roles
IRT
Helps individuals identify and work towards their goals, teaching them skills to build their resiliency in coping with psychosis while staying on track with their lives
SEE
Helps people identify and achieve their educational and/or employment goals
FAMILY
Helps the whole family learn about psychosis and how to manage it, and also how to support each other and build family resiliency
PRESCRIBER
is responsible for diagnosis and pharmacological treatment, and collaborates with the team on treatment planning and review
DIRECTOR
is responsible for managing the NAVIGATE program, including monitoring and improving quality of services
In the first three videos, Dr. George Foussias, Chief of the Schizophrenia Division, and Director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition at CAMH, provides information about the NAVIGATE program. The fourth video is the result of a youth-led initiative intended to educate young people, their families and friends about the NAVIGATE program.
#1. Introduction to NAVIGATE
Director Dr. George Foussias walks through an overview and the objectives of the NAVIGATE program, outlining the different components of NAVIGATE and health care professionals available to youth and their families.
#2. More about NAVIGATE
Dr. George Foussias talks about the origins of the NAVIGATE program and how it has evolved into its current state. We learn more about the health care roles within NAVIGATE and the evidence base for the program.
#3. NAVIGATE for Professionals
Dr. George Foussias highlights the different ways to get information about the NAVIGATE program. He goes over the novel online training program and the com-munity of practice (CoP) that brings together clinical teams (virtually) from across Ontario to advance delivery of coordinated specialty care. The NAVIGATE program provides a safe and secure space to discuss real life clinical scenarios and best practices.