2024 Gage Award Winner | Hennepin Healthcare - HOPE Program

About 100,000 people in the United States each year experience a first psychotic episode. Longer durations of untreated psychosis correlate with more severe symptoms; less likelihood of remission; and poorer vocational, academic, and social functioning. Hennepin Healthcare’s Healing and Opportunities with Psychotic Experiences (HOPE) Program provides early intervention for patients ages 15 to 40 experiencing an illness on the schizophrenia spectrum. HOPE launched in 2016 through a federal mental health block grant.