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County presentation: Early psychosis program to accept clinically high‑risk youth, expand outreach
Summary
Dana Taylor briefed the Humboldt County Behavioral Health Board on changes to the county's early psychosis program, including expanded eligibility to people identified as clinically high‑risk, staff and training updates, referral processes and a current capacity cap of 14 clients.
Dana Taylor, supervising behavioral health clinician in the county's TAY (transition‑age youth) division, told the Humboldt County Behavioral Health Board that the county's early psychosis program is changing how it identifies and serves clients.
Taylor said the program, referred to during the presentation as HEPI (Humboldt Early Psychosis Intervention), will now accept people identified as clinically high risk for psychosis in addition to those with established psychotic disorders. The program's target age range remains 16 to 26, and the team is prioritizing intervention early in the course of symptoms — ideally within the first three months of onset, Taylor said.
She described core services the program offers or expects to provide in the near term: medication management (when psychiatry is available), case…
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