Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research June 2022 Newsletter |
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How College Faculty Can Better Support Students with Mental Health Conditions
Dr. Maryann Davis joined the Mary Christie Institute Podcast to Discuss College Faculty & Student Mental Health
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Pathways to Self Sufficiency:
Career & Technical Education for Youth
with Emotional Disturbances
Webinar Posted Online
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Our recent webinar is now available online. "Pathways to Self Sufficiency: Career & Technical Education For Youth With Emotional Disturbances" describes opportunities for engaging learners in high school Career Technical Education (CTE) to help them prepare for high wage, high-skill, in-demand employment opportunities, or participation in post-secondary education.
Research shows that participation in CTE coursework in high school provides opportunities to improve the otherwise poor employment and post-secondary outcomes of learners with emotional disturbance.
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Our New Young Adult Blog for Pride Month
iSPARC LGBTQ+ Members Share Their Experience on
Mental Health and Employment
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Five LGBTQ+ staff members at iSPARC volunteered to answer a set of questions about their experiences with mental health and employment as LGBTQ+ individuals. These folks represent different ages, genders, sexual identities, races, and lived experiences. The blog is composed of key quotes pulled from staff responses. Common themes were fear, stigma, hope, authenticity, community, acceptance, progress, and a recognition of the work that still needs to be done in our workplaces and world.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have such a diverse workforce. Happy Pride Month to All!
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Promoting Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice Settings:
What Do We Need to Know?
Webinar Posted Online
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Our recent webinar, "Promoting Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice Settings: What Do We Need to Know?" presented by Gina Vincent, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Translational Law & Psychiatry Research, and Co-Director Law & Psychiatry at iSPARC is now available online. In the webinar, Dr. Vincent notes that over the last 10 years, juvenile justice systems have shifted towards a desire for use of developmentally appropriate supervision practices, such as Positive Youth Development (PYD).
The “Optimizing Supervision and Service Strategies to Reduce Reoffending” Study funded by the National Institute of Justice seeks to determine how to effectively implement PYD into community supervision and case planning. This project was designed to answer multiple practical questions to advance juvenile probation practices: For example, “What strengths-based services will result in the largest gains for youth and largest reductions in recidivism?” “How can the PYD approach be implemented with the Risk-Need-Responsivity approach in case planning to maximize reductions in recidivism?”
This presentation described the protective factors and strengths-based services thought to be most influential in reducing recidivism based on youths’ developmental stage and hypotheses about how these may be used in case planning.
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One of our youth led Learning & Working RRTC’s knowledge translation projects is developing memes that are relevant to youth and young adults living with mental health conditions. Sometimes a picture can convey a feeling that is hard to articulate. Memes often do that.
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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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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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Our website hosts dozens of downloadable tip-sheets, many of which were developed and reviewed, with input from young adults with serious mental health conditions and given their “stamp of approval”. |
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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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