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October
2017

In This Issue

In The News

Upcoming Events

Empowering
Youth

Advancing
Research

Our Final Comeback TV
Episode

Who We
Are

The Transitions
RTC promotes the full
participation in socially valued roles of
transition-age youth and young adults (ages
14-30) with serious mental health
conditions.

The Learning & Working
RRTC is a national effort that
aims to improve the supports of this population
to successfully complete their schooling and
training and move into rewarding work
lives.

SPARC
As a
Massachusetts
Department of Mental Health
Research Center of Excellence, SPARC aims to
improve the mental and behavioral health of all
citizens of Massachusetts and
beyond.

In The
News

Maryann
Davis, a member of the federal government's new
committee on serious mental illness was quoted
in a MedPage news article: Serious Mental
Illness Committee Has Its Work Cut Out.
Read the full article here.

Upcoming
Events

Upcoming
Webinars

DREAMers Study: Undocumented
College Students, Social Exclusion, and
Psychological Distress

Wednesday,
November 8

12:00
- 1:00 PM EDT

This webinar
will examine how not having legal status
impacts the psychosocial well-being of
undocumented college-age students and identifies
what social supports are in place to alleviate
psychological stressors associated with not
having legal U.S. status.

Register here!

Adolescents Charged with Domestic
Battery on a Caregiver: Assessment and
Management

Thursday,
December 14

1:30
- 2:30 PM EDT

This webinar will examine a) different
categories of youth charged with Adolescent
Domestic Battery (ADB), b) how to best assess
youth to make appropriately informed justice and
treatment-related decisions, and c) various
coordinated treatment approaches with the
potential for success. SPARC's Gina Vincent will highlight the
Adolescent Domestic Battery Typologies Tool
(ADBTT), an assessment tool that provides a
structured framework to help inform case
processing, dispositional, and treatment
decisions based on an assessment of a youth's
risk for future Adolescent Domestic Battery
(ADB). Register
here!

Upcoming
Conference

Transitions
RTC researchers Marsha Ellison, Laura Golden,
Emma Pici-D'Ottavio, Rachel Stone and Jennifer
Whitney, will be presenting at the October 24-25
15th Annual MassPRA
Conference in Marlborough, MA. Stay
tuned for copies of their
presentations.

Empowering
Youth in
Transition

In
school...

How does the
Peer Support for Success
(PASS) project aim to provide
strong academic supports to successfully launch
the college careers of students with serious
mental health conditions? Learn more here.

For
more resources on education, click here!

On
the job...

See
our latest tip sheet that provides guidance to
states on how to develop a strategic plan to
bridge disconnected agencies to support youth
and young adults with mental health
conditions.

Blueprint for Building Inter-Agency
Collaboration through Strategic Planning:
Supporting the Employment of Youth & Young
Adults with Serious Mental Health
Conditions

See
our other tipsheets on employment here.

In the
community...

The federal
ABLE act allows young adults living with serious
mental health conditions to save money for
qualifying expenses. Learn
who is eligible for an ABLE account, how to open
an ABLE account and more in this tip
sheet, Saving Money for a Better Life:
What Can the ABLE Act Do for
Me?

Advancing
Research on Vulnerable
Youth

Helping Youth on the Path to
Employment (HYPE), a joint project with
Rutgers University, is a career development
intervention that will help young adults with
serious mental health conditions achieve their
goals in work and school, so as to gain
competitive employment and live meaningful and
self-sufficient lives.

Click here to learn more about
the state-of-the-art practices
and services in career development for young
adults and the HYPE project.

State-of-the-Science
Conference

The 2018 Youth & Young
Adult Mental Health State-of-the-Science
Conference will take place during
the 31st Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child,
Adolescent, and
Young Adult Behavioral Health in Tampa, Florida
from March 4-7, 2018.

Call for Proposals Is Now Open!
Submit your proposal online
today!

Celebrating 3
Years of Comeback TV

Since 2014,
the YouTube Web Series, Comeback
TV, has shared mental health resources
that aid efforts of employment, education, and
mental health recovery for youth and young
adults with lived experience, via a video web
series. Comeback
TV was created by young adults for young adults,
covering a range of topics
from applying to and keeping
a job, cyberbullying, peer mentoring, therapy
animals, and college accommodations.

After 3
years, 17 episodes and close to 4,000
views, we have produced our final
Comeback TV episode. Take a trip down memory
lane with web series director, Tania Duperoy, in
this episode, A Last Look.

Click here to check out all the
Comeback TV episodes, helping young
adults with mental health conditions on their
path to successful independent
lives!

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Some
of the contents of this newsletter were
developed under a grant with funding from the National
Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and
Rehabilitation Research, and from the Center for Mental
Health Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, United States Department of
Health and Human Services (NIDILRR grant number
90RT5031).  NIDILRR is a Center within the
Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).  The contents of
this newsletter do not necessarily represent the
policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS, and you should not assume
endorsement by the Federal
Government.

The Transitions RTC is part
of the Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research
Center, a Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health Research
Center of
Excellence.

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