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June 2017

In This Issue

In The News

Upcoming Event

What SPARC Is
Doing

Empowering
Youth

Advancing
Research

From the Director's
Desk

Who We
Are

The Transitions RTC
promotes the full participation in socially
valued roles of this population so they can
engage fully in all aspects of
life.

The Learning & Working
RRTC, is a national effort that
aims to improve the supports for youth and young
adults, ages 14-30, with serious mental health
conditions 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

American Psychiatric Association features a
documentary about SPARC and their major
partnerships with state agencies and people with
lived experience to design, conduct, and
disseminate research.

Watch the new video featuring partnerships
with youth and young adults here!

Upcoming
Event

The
2017 NAMI National Convention will be held in
Washington, DC from June 28 - July 1. Learn more
about the event here.

What SPARC

Is
Doing

SPARC and the Southeast Asian
Coalition of Central Massachusetts, Inc. (SEAC) collaborated to come up
with culturally-sensitive strategies mental
health providers can use when interacting and
building relationships with their Southeast
Asian clients from countries like Laos, Cambodia
and Vietnam. Read the tip
sheet here!

Empowering
Youth in
Transition

In
school...

Tools for
School - Real Support for Real Students:
Making College Accommodations Work For
You

On
the job...

Catch
this Comeback TV Episode - Applying for a Job: Where and
How

In
the community...

In
addition to Spanish, we now offer some of our
publications in Vietnamese! Check out
our newest tip sheets in Vietnamese here!

Advancing
Research on Vulnerable
Youth

Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging
Adults (MST-EA): Treating Young Adults Who Have
Justice Involvement and Behavioral Health
Conditions

MST-EA focuses on reducing recidivism
and increasing the young adults' positive
functioning in the critical areas of emerging
adulthood (school completion, employment,
independent living, and positive social
relationships), as well as simultaneously
ensuring treatment and management of mental
illness and any co-occurring substance use
disorder.

To learn more, watch this webinar!

State-of-the-Science
Conference

Stay
tuned for the State-of-the-Science
Conference in Tampa in
Spring 2018!

The 2018
Youth & Young Adult
Mental Health
State-of-the-Science
Conference will take place during
the 2018 Research &
Policy
Conference on Child, Adolescent,
and Young Adult
Behavioral Health in Tampa,
Florida!

Click here to download the flyer
and get information about the call for
papers!

From the
Director's Desk

Check
out the video by the American
Psychiatric Association (APA)! It features our
Center's focus on research
partnerships, both with
state agencies and with individuals with lived
experience of serious mental health conditions.
In all our work from designing
and conducting to disseminating our
research, we focus on youth partnerships by
involving young adults to emphasize their voice
and their lived experiences. We
continue to foster the belief that the best
way to positively impact our intended audiences
is to include them as partners in our research.

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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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