Amy Wilson, Meghan Ahern and Donna Crossman at Bedford VAMC have been using a vocational recovery approach - specifically Supported Education - to assist veterans experiencing psychosis to return to their education. Amy and Meghan presented on the two key paths that have been created for veterans with psychosis to access Supported Education. The first … Continue reading Bolts from the Blue 2: Supported Ed with Veterans presented by Amy Wilson and Meghan Ahern

An important part of the iFEVR/iphYs meeting are the bolts from the blue presentations. These are 5 minute presentations consisting of one title slide and two content slides. They allow the rest of the community to hear about new innovations in practice, research that might not be widely known, or adaptations that have had to … Continue reading Bolts from the blue presentation by David Erickson at the Boston iFEVR Meeting

The theme of the iFEVR/iphYs meeting was New Frontiers, and for IPS in early intervention South America is a new geographical frontier. Cristián Mena from the Early Intervention in Psychosis Program (ProITP) in Santiago, Chile gave a presentation on behalf of his colleagues describing the implementation of IPS in the Chilean context. A PDF of … Continue reading Presentation by Cristián Mena from the ProITP program in Santiago Chile at the Boston iFEVR Meeting

The 3rdiFEVR/iphYs meeting was held in Boston on Thursday 11 October, 2018. A great blog about the whole day can be found here. It was amazing to see the enthusiasm in the audience for the topics. One of the innovations of this meeting was using Sli.do as a means to gather questions. Over the next … Continue reading 3rd iFEVR & iphYs meeting

Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce: The 5th International Symposium on Promoting Recovery of Young People with Mental Illness: iFEVR and iPhYs Joint Meeting in Boston, USA on Thursday October 11, 2018 (following the conclusion of the IEPA main conference meeting).   As at our last meeting in Milan, we would like to invite abstracts for our … Continue reading Call for Bolts from the Blue for iFEVR meeting in Boston, October 2018

As mentioned in many articles and in the Meaningful Lives statement, there are several positive reasons for pursuing employment as an element of vocational recovery. These include that young people with mental illness want to work, that employment connects people to a social environment as well as enhancing individuals’ capacity for economic independence. So far … Continue reading Is all work good work?

Apologies for the long break since before IEPA last year. Hopefully, there will be more regular postings and this will be a good forum for building the international community around vocational recovery in first episode psychosis and perhaps more broadly, youth mental health. However, to pick up where things left off a brief report from … Continue reading Reset, and an update from Milan

International Symposium on Promoting Recovery of Young People with Psychosis: The iFEVR and iphYs Joint Meeting in Milan 2016           The iFEVR meeting, held jointly with iphYS is coming up on October 19 in Milan - the day before the IEPA conference begins. A great program is being organised which will be … Continue reading iFEVR and iphYs Bolts from the Blue abstract submission now open

Increasingly there are a number of vocationally oriented presentations at many of the main psychosis and schizophrenia conferences that relate to young people with first episode psychosis or schizophrenia. Unfortunately for a lot of people, it is not possible to get to these conferences. A great resource that has been developed over the last 4 … Continue reading Old conferences

Recently, I have begun to have a serious think about education. This is because I am increasingly aware that in the future, education is going to be even more important to vocational success than it already is. A great report was released recently from the Foundation for Young Australians called The New Work Order. It … Continue reading A bit of education