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This brief shares best practices learned on the Project Futures research study being conducted at Portland State University and local community colleges in Portland, Oregon. The study is testing evidence-based mentoring strategies for college freshmen with lived experience in foster care and with mental health stressors.
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This report addresses challenges faced by transition-age youth and young adults with mental health conditions as they try to find and maintain stable housing. This document was written specifically for program designers, administrators, and policy-makers, and others who are planning to develop or modify housing supports that are available to young adults.
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The latest issue of Focal Point, Pathways RTC's annual research review, includes a series of research summaries that reflect the state of the science and project descriptions focused on the theme of community integration for youth and young adults who experience serious mental health conditions.
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This paper reports on the identiļ¬cation of a set of core competencies for service providers working with youth with mental health needs in the transition years and the development and psychometric testing of the Transition Service Provider Competency Scale (TSPCS), a 15-item self-report instrument.
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This article examined employment engagement (i.e., months of employment, hours worked per week, days of work missed due to the child's challenges) among caregivers of children and youth entering community-based mental health service systems.
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This webinar, which takes place on September 18, 2018, will report on a study testing the AMP+ skills-enhancement intervention for peer support providers working with youth and young adults. AMP+ provides web-based training and video coaching that is specific to the peer role. Peers reported high satisfaction, improved their skills, and reported reduced work-related anxiety.
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This monograph, titled "The Integration of Early Psychosis Services in a System of Care Framework: Opportunities, Issues, and Recommendations," describes how an SOC approach, coupled with specialized early psychosis intervention, can create a sustainable infrastructure, significantly decrease the duration of untreated psychosis, and improve service delivery and outcomes for youth and young adults with early signs of psychosis.
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This webinar focused on programs designed to support young adults with mental health stressors and foster care experience to succeed in college. Representatives from multiple programs shared details of their implementation successes and lessons learned, program sustainability, and what further questions need to be explored with research. This webinar will be of interest for others looking to establish or strengthen resources in their own universities/communities, as well as other researchers, providers and program administrators working in the field, and young adults with lived experiences.
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Are you part of a local, regional, state or national-level advisory or governance committee/ council that includes young people as members? If so, we invite you to have your committee/ council participate in our project to develop the Assessment of Youth/Young Adult Voice on Commitees and Councils (Y-VOC). Committees/ councils participate via an online survey, and can receive a report on their scores. Each participant also has a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.
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