Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research October 2021 Newsletter |
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IN THE COMMUNITY:
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month
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October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). This year's theme “America’s Recovery: Powered by Inclusion,” reflects the importance of ensuring that people with disabilities have full access to employment and community involvement during the national recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic (and always).
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In This Issue:
- Our Service Models
- Additional Transition-Aged Youth Resources
- Policy Proposal: Career & Technical Education (CTE) for Students with Emotional Disturbance (ED)
- Adulting Shorts: The "TEA" on IEPS
- The Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA): New Law Helps Youth & Young Adults Get Jobs
- Our blog: 5 Ways Working Helps Me Manage My Mental Health Condition
- What is Health Care Transition?
- Mental Illness Awareness Week: Important Prevention Resources
- Upcoming Events & New Resources
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is a manual-based intervention to support transition-age youth and young adults (18-30 years old) who have mental health conditions. Our integrated model of employment and education services addresses the career development needs of this group.
TEST (Translating Evidence to Support Transitions) project created three practice guides to increase the use and adoption of research-informed practices for the transition planning of high school students with emotional behavioral disturbance (EBD) who receive special education services. The guides cover: student-led IEP meetings, community agency representation at IEP meetings, and concentrations of CTE coursework along career pathways. Learn more and download our guides.
Effectively Employing Young Adult Peer Providers is a toolkit developed for organizations to guide them when they employ young adult peer providers. The toolkit covers conceptualizing and structuring the young adult peer role; ensuring that your organizational culture supports young adult peers; recruiting, hiring and training young adult peers; supervision; accommodations and more.
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Additional Transition-Age Youth Resources:
Many of our downloadable tip sheets and briefs, reports, articles, posters, infographics and video were developed and reviewed with input from young adults with serious mental health conditions and given their “stamp of approval”. Check out them out for:
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EMPOWERING YOUTH IN TRANSITION |
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Adulting Shorts:
The "TEA" on IEPS Part 1
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In our latest info-comic, Mateo learns how and why it's important to take an active role in his Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting. Read on to see why his voice matters.
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The Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) |
The Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) mandates services for young adults (ages 14-24) with disabilities, including those with serious mental health conditions, that prepare them to obtain and pursue career goals and meaningful employment.
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Young Adult Blog Corner:
5 Ways Working Helps Me Manage My Mental Health Conditions
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In honor of October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, our blogger shares 5 ways working has helped manage their mental health conditions.
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Policy Proposal: Career & Technical Education (CTE) for Students with Emotional Disturbance (ED) |
Youth with emotional disturbance lag behind other students with disabilities in their high school completion and postsecondary education and employment, and they rely heavily on disability benefits as adults. Career and Technical Education (CTE) is federally supported, widely available, and associated with improved postsecondary outcomes for students with emotional disturbance who take a concentration of CTE credits.
Transitions ACR faculty Marsha Ellison and Colleen McKay, created a report for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) on how Translating Evidence to Support Transitions in Career and Technical Education program (TEST-CTE) can help states and districts satisfy their obligations under federal laws while positively impact the postsecondary outcomes of students with emotional disturbance.
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Health Care Transition? HCT 101
An often overlooked aspect of transitioning to adulthood is the health care transition.
Got Transition created a new animated video: What is Health Care Transition? HCT 101 to help young adults and their parents/caregivers make the healthcare transition where the young adult takes ownership of their own healthcare needs.
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SAMHSA to Launch New "Office of Recovery" to Expand Its...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is launching an Office of Recovery, within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, to advance the agency's commitment to, and support of,...
Read more
www.samhsa.gov
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MENTAL ILLNESS AWARENESS WEEK
OCTOBER 3-9
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THE FACTS:
- 1 in 6 U.S. youths aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year.
- 50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24.
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EVENTS & PEER-RELATED RESEARCH
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Our Young Adult blog is
now available on audio!
Blogging on Adulting: In
Our Voice is a podcast on adulting and mental health by those with lived experience.
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Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program, the The Central MA Tobacco-Free Community Partnership's (CMTFCP) mission is to reduce the health and economic burden of tobacco use by preventing young people from starting to use tobacco and nicotine products, helping current tobacco and nicotine users to quit, protecting children and adults from secondhand smoke, and identifying and eliminating tobacco-related disparities.
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The Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research promotes the full participation in socially valued roles of transition-age youth and young adults (ages 14-30) with serious mental health conditions. The Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research (Transitions ACR) is located within the Implementation Science and Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC) and houses The Learning & Working During the Transition to Adulthood Rehabilitation Research & Training Center (The Learning & Working RRTC), among other projects.
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The Learning & Working RRTC is a national effort that aims to improve the supports of transition-age youth and young adults (age 14-30) with serious mental health conditions successfully complete their schooling and training and move into rewarding work lives.
Funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
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As a Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Research Center of Excellence located within the Department of Psychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School (formerly the University of Massachusetts Medical School), iSPARC aims to improve the mental and behavioral health of all citizens of Massachusetts and beyond.
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Some of the contents of this message were developed under a grant with funding from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, United States Department of Health and Human Services (NIDILRR grant number 90RTEM0005). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this message do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, and/or HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
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