Nev Jones
Title: Optimizing Disability benefit Decisions and Outcomes in First Episode Psychosis
Funder: Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene (Prime: NIMH)
About the Project: The 5-year project will engage in extensive new data collection, involving both surveys and interviews, to better understand the factors influencing the decisions young people make, and contexts that influence these decisions, including family socioeconomics, structural racism, and the available, accessibility and quality of vocational supports. In the final phase of the grant, a participatory process will bring together key stakeholders from across the country to map out action steps at the levels of policy as well as practice with the goal of strengthening services and improving outcomes. The project will be advised by a national steering committee including impacted young people, their families and community providers. Read more.