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Transition Age Youth Resources

 

 

This is a document where we can all add links to certain categories of information pertinent to transition age youth in Massachusetts:

 

 

 

 

1.       Existing direct service resources or resource guides

 

 

 

 

DMH Young Adult Resource Guide (2011), http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dmh/publications/young-adult-resource-guide.pdf

 

 

 

 

Institute for Community Inclusion, http://www.communityinclusion.org/topic.php?topic_id=7t

 

 

 

 

DDS, The Road Forward: A DDS Guide to Transitional Planning (2009), www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dmr/transition-planning-road-forward.rtf

 

 

 

 

Disability Law Center, Planning for Life After Special Education in Massachusetts: A Transition Services Online Manual (Dec. 2012), http://www.dlc-ma.org/manual/index.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.       Existing advocacy initiatives/potential partners

 

 

 

 

Mass. DMH Transition Age Youth Initiative, http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/dmh/transitional-age-youth-initiative.html

 

 

 

 

Institute for Community Inclusion, http://www.communityinclusion.org/topic.php?topic_id=7 (which includes a list of related projects)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.       Reports or papers

 

 

 

 

GAO, Young Adults with Serious Mental Illness (2008), http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08678.pdf

 

 

 

 

Bazelon, Moving On: Analysis of Federal Programs Funding Services to Assist Transition-Age Youth with Serious Mental Health Conditions (2005), http://www.bazelon.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=8Vesx_bWHBA%3D&tabid=104

 

 

 

 

Consumer Quality Initiatives, Inc., Voices of Youth in Transition (2002), http://www.cqi-mass.org/pdfs/Youth-in-Transition-Final-Report.pdf

 

 

 

 

MSPCC, 18 and Out: Life after Foster Care in MA (2005), http://www.chapa.org/housing-policy/research-reports/18-and-out-life-after-foster-care-massachusetts (listing many partnering agencies)

This item was originally posted at http://www.masslegalservices.org/content/transition-age-youth-resources-0