Helping Transition Age Youth and Young Adults Achieve their Goals

• By: Evelyn Frankford, MSW Consultant
• October 1st, 2019
• education support, employment opportunities, engagement strategies, integrated care, mental health recovery, technology in behavioral health, transition age youth, young adults
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As with all young adults, a central focus for Transition Age Youth and Young Adults (TAYYA) ages 16 to 25 with serious mental health challenges is building a life in the community. Doing so requires completing their education and getting satisfying work. If these young people have spent serious...

To Help Transition Age Youth and Young Adults Succeed: Focus on Their Education

• By: Evelyn Frankford, MSW Independent Consultant
• January 1st, 2019
• educational outcomes, high school dropout, mental health services, positive youth development, school engagement, school reintegration, serious mental health conditions, transition age youth
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While transition age youth and young adults ages 16 to 25 with serious mental health conditions (TAYYA) face many challenges and risk factors, not graduating from high school is possibly the single biggest one, predictive of multiple future problems including unemployment, homelessness, and...

Supporting Youths in Their Recovery Journey to Adulthood

• By: Andrea Smyth David Rossetti Leonardo I. Rodriguez
• January 1st, 2017
• care coordination, children’s behavioral health, home and community-based services, Medicaid redesign, service integration, transition age youth, transition to adulthood, youth mental health services
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The New York State children’s behavioral health community is in the last stages of redesigning the children’s behavioral health Medicaid benefits. Once approved by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS), the new benefits will represent the most significant expansion of children’s...