About AEPCC Membership
Collaboration is at the heart of AEPCC and, as such, there is a range of free membership options for anyone with an interest in, or connection with, early or emerging psychosis.
Find out how you could become a member of the inaugural national early psychosis collaborative consortium.
Why join AEPCC?
Be in the know
- Receive the latest information from the early psychosis sector – through a research, clinical or lived experience lens.
- Gain unique access to information about early psychosis research opportunities.
Be involved
- Contribute to the establishment of the first Australian early psychosis clinical trials and translation network and clinical quality registry.
- Contribute to the establishment of a lived experience network for the early psychosis community across Australia.
- Contribute to the development of research priorities for the early psychosis sector.
Be connected
- Join a community to advocate for ongoing and increased funding across the early psychosis sector.
- Meet and collaborate with others from the early psychosis sector through online and in-person AEPCC activities.
Be supported
- Access support for current or planned early psychosis research.
- Secure promotion of your research group’s activities and achievements through AEPCC publications and the AEPCC website.
Apply for membership
Full Membership – Research
Apply if you’re involved in an early or emerging psychosis research trial, as:
- a chief or principal investigator;
- mid- or early-career researcher; peer-researcher; or student.
We include ultra-high risk (UHR), clinical high-risk (CHR) and at-risk mental state (ARMS) for psychosis in our definition of ‘early or emerging psychosis’.
Full Membership – Clinical
Apply if you work in:
- an organisation that provides clinical services to young people experiencing early psychosis.
This includes clinical students, peer workers or anyone working in a clinical care team in early or emerging psychosis.
Full Membership – Lived Experience
Apply if you identify as a member of the early psychosis lived experience community, as:
- a young person with lived experience of psychosis; or
- a carer, family member or loved one of a young person with lived experience of psychosis.
Affiliate Membership
Apply if you support AEPCC’s goals and would like to stay up-to-date with our activities but don’t meet the criteria for a full membership option. For example, you may be:
- part of a not-for-profit or non-governmental organisation that actively engages with the early psychosis community but are not directly involved in providing clinical services; or
- a clinician, researcher or otherwise have an interest in the area but are not engaged directly in early psychosis services or research.