Evidence-based Practices

• Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model
• Illness Management and Recovery
• Assertive Community Treatment
• Family Psychoeducation
• Supported Employment
• Co-occurring Disorders: Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment

Best Practices

• Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth
• The JOBS Program
• Positive Action (PA) – youth aged 5 to 18 years old

Promising Practices

• Transition to Independence Process (TIP) System; University of Southern Florida
• The Village Transitional Age Youth Program
• Bilingual/Bicultural Counseling and Support Services
• Therapeutic Workplace

"First Break" Episodes

• The Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC)

CMHDA’s TAY Resource Guide

• Table of Contents, with links to individual chapter files
• Download as one file (PDF, 1.19MB)

Alcohol & Drugs

• Woodrock Youth Development Program
• Dando Fuerza a La Familia

Cultural Issues

• The Center for Multicultural Development (CMD)
  • Summary Matrix of Psychosocial Interventions for Ethnic Populations of Children/Adolescents and Adults

Gender

• California Women’s Mental Health Policy Council
  • A Roadmap to Mental Health Services for Transition Age Young Women: A Research Review

Housing & Homelessness

• Supportive Housing for Youth: A background of issues in the design and development of supportive housing for homeless youth
  • Corporation for Supportive Housing
  • Housing Youth: Key Issues of Supportive Housing
• Child Welfare League of America
• The Los Angeles Youth Supportive Services, Inc.
• The Path Program
• Fred Finch Youth Center

Runaway Youth

• WIND Youth Services
• Youth Link of America

Suicide Prevention

• Assessment of Suicidal Behavior & Risk Among Children and Adolescents

Violence

• Keeping Youth Safe: Strategies That Work to Prevent Violence

Miscellaneous

• TAY Resource Library

• Links to various mental health providers and non-mental health community-based organizations that outline TAY specific services
• Mental Health Providers (TAY Specific)
  • Daniels Place
  • Four Winds West
  • Huckleberry Youth Programs
  • Larkin Street Youth Services
  • San Diego Youth & Community Services
• Non-Mental Health CBOs (TAY Specific)
  • California Coalition for Youth
  • California Youth Connection
  • Youth Info
  • Youth Service California
  • Youth Transitions Funders Group
• Training & Seminar Information
  • TAY Academy Immersion
• Published articles about TAY and mental health needs/services
  • Clark, H. B. & Davis, M. (Eds.). (2000). Transition to Adulthood: A Resource for Assisting Young People with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties
  • Bernstein, N. Helping Those Who Need It Most: Meeting the Mental Health Care Needs of Youth in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice
  • Yohalem, N. & Pittman, K. (October 2001). Powerful Pathways: Framing Options and Opportunities for Vulnerable Youth. Discussion paper of the Youth Transition Funders Group. Takoma Park, MD: The Forum for Youth Investment, International Youth Found