What HumeREPS Offers

1. Community Education                                                                       Back to HumeREPS Home

• Information sessions to workers about Early Psychosis
• Training about skills in identifying and working with young people experiencing Early Psychosis.
• Mental Health promotion activities to the targeted age group.

2. Consultation

• General consultation about Early Psychosis and what the early warning signs are.
• Secondary consultation to those who are working with young people with an emerging psychosis. Written consent must be obtained from the young person.

3. Working with young people with an Emerging Psychosis

Hume REPS can work collaboratively with services who are currently engaged with young people who have emerging psychotic symptoms and this includes young people who:

• Young people who are exhibiting infrequent unusual/odd changes in their behaviour or thoughts  in the past year;
• In the last 12 months young people who have experienced intense  psychotic experiences that have spontaneously resolved within one week.

Interventions aim at decreasing the young person’s vulnerability of progressing to a psychotic episode as well ongoing monitoring of psychotic type symptoms.

4. Case Management

Hume REPS will case manage young people experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis. Their management will include:

• Bio/psycho/social treatment;

• Collaborative approach;
• Intensive outreach;
• Family Focused;
• Utilising the Australian Early Psychosis Clinical Guidelines.