Minnesota Rolls Out Funding for Innovative First Episode Psychosis Treatment

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The Minnesota State Legislature approved $1 million in funding through 2019 to build a network of community clinics and outreach programs that provide therapy, support and treatment to individuals experiencing an initial presentation of symptoms associated with psychosis.  The first $260,000 of funding will be distributed through grants over the next two years.  The new programs will be modeled after the University at Minnesota’s first episode psychosis program, which has pioneered efforts to incorporate family education and training into therapy focused treatment programs.

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Justin Karter
Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston College and part-time faculty with the Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics. His scholarship examines historical and cultural formations of mind, subjectivity, and personhood; the roles of activist movements and lived-experience communities, including the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (C/S/X) tradition; and how mental health discourses shape institutions, practices, and identities. He works across mad studies, critical psychology, philosophy of psychology, and rights-based global mental health. Methodologically, he specializes in critical qualitative inquiry and psychotherapy process research grounded in intersubjective and phenomenological approaches. He is the President of APA Division 24 (2025-26) and serves on the Executive Board of Division 32. Previously, he was a Research Officer to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. He earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where his dissertation examined psychosocial disability advocacy in the global mental health movement. He also holds graduate degrees in Journalism and Community Psychology from Point Park University.

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