Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research April 2023 Newsletter |
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In this Issue...
- Managing the Paperwork of "Adulting"
- New Research Brief: Factors that Influence the Pursuit of Education, Training, & Employment among Young Adults w/ SMHC
- Free Online Course - Promoting Young Adult Success in Work & School
- Tips to Improve Communication w/Youth & Young Adults
- New Episodes of our S.T.A.Y. Tuned Podcast
- New Research on Young Parents Living w/a Mental Health Condition
- How to Get Technical Assistance
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New Tip Sheet for Young Adults
My "Must Have" Papers
Managing the Paperwork of Adulting
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Managing the paperwork that comes along with "Adulting" is not fun. Our Young Adult Advisory Board and Family Advisory Board set out to make that task a little easier. This tip sheet lists all the documents and paperwork young adults may have to manage, helps identify how important each document is, and recommends how to organize all of it. Our goal is to make the transition to adulthood just a little bit easier - for all people involved, both the young adults and their supporters. |
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New Research Brief
Factors that Influence the Continuous Pursuit of Education, Training, and Employment among Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions
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Young adults (ages 18–30) w/ serious mental health conditions (SMHC) often face challenges in their education, training, and employment pursuits. The study presented in this brief describes young adult patterns of education, training, and employment activities for individuals with SMHC and identifies modifiable factors that hinder or facilitate their ability to consistently pursue these activities. These findings can inform psychiatric rehabilitation efforts that support the school, training, and work activities of young adults with SMHC to improve their long-term career trajectories.
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Promoting Young Adult Success in School and Work
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Our first free course, "Engaging Young Adults in Work and School, " provides key information and resources related to the importance of engaging young adults in work and school endeavors, and strategies for doing this important work. The course is free, online, and self-paced and aims to inspire and support those who work with, and care about, young adults with mental health conditions.
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What's the difference between giving support and providing solutions? There's a big difference when your young adult is wanting only support! If you're a friend or family member of a young adult living with a mental health condition, (or any young adult), here are 3 specific tips that can help you have better conversations and better relationships.
This tip sheet was developed as a collaboration between the Family Advisory Board and Young Adult Advisory Board that work with the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research. We use their lived experience to inform our research and improve the work we do.
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In this episode, Emily and Mei get real with listeners. They discuss their struggles in creating healthy routines in a life where screens dominate their whole day and later get into the lonely reality of post-grad life.
How does one go about sharing their mental health conditions with their supervisor? What's it like coming back from taking a leave? How might you address your leave of absence with colleagues? This episode covers all of it.
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Parenting When Young & Living with a
Mental Health Condition
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Our research on young adults, parenthood and mental health was recently featured in the National Rehabilitation Information Center' s (NARIC) Research In Focus: A Digest of New Research from the NIDILRR Community.
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Sometimes a picture can convey a feeling that is hard to articulate. Memes often do that.
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COULD YOU USE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE?
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Technical Assistance activities are an extension of the research and training activities of Transitions ACR. Our intention is to collaborate closely with numerous stakeholders requesting technical assistance in order to produce actionable practice and policy agenda. Our TA services can range from simple resource referrals to on-site development of a formal TA plan (including fact finding, goals, responsibilities, timelines and evaluation measures).
Please complete the form below for Technical Assistance from Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research. Please note that we do not provide clinical consultation, behavioral services, or referrals.
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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:
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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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