What is Turning Point?
Turning Point is a coordinated specialty care program that serves adolescents and young adults who are experiencing their first psychotic episode. Coordinated Specialty Care is team-based and multi-element. It includes case management, individual/group psychotherapy, supported employment, supported education, family education and support, and low-doses of select antipsychotic agents.
Who can participate?
- Between ages 16 and 25.
- Resident of Fairfax County or cities of Fairfax or Falls Church.
- Experiencing unusual thoughts and behaviors, or hearing/seeing things that others don’t within the past two years.
- Have a willingness to participate in services.
Who operates Turning Point?
Turning Point is a joint program of the Fairfax/ Falls Church Community Services Board and PRS, Inc. Services are provided at the Merrifield Center, located at 8221 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive Fairfax, VA 22031.