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Early intervention services offer a new and proactive way of engaging with young people with mental illness and people experiencing their first psychotic episode.

This factsheet contains information on the following subjects:

1. Why early intervention?
2. Who is early intervention for?
3. What are the aims of early intervention?
4. Who makes up an early intervention service?
5. How does early intervention work?
6. When can early intervention fail?

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