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YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT SERVICES

Provider Training & Consulting

Thresholds Youth and Young Adult Services provides tailored training and consultation to agencies and states who want to better engage and improve the outcomes of transition-age youth and young adults (TAYYAs) with mental health challenges.

Our mission is to be a national leader in TAYYA mental health services through partnering, building, testing, refining and sharing our practice models. We help others to adapt our approaches for their unique contexts and populations, and to evaluate our joint efforts so that others can learn from our work. Recognizing that TAYYA services must be purposely different than traditional services for children or for adults, we assist other states, regions, organizations, and teams to integrate evidence-informed practices to maximize success.


SERVICES AND PRODUCTS

We provide on-site needs assessment, training, technical assistance, capacity enhancement, workforce development, and team-building workshops for diverse audiences. We also provide coaching calls, and web-based learning for integration and maintenance of new skills. We have trained hundreds of people, from direct practice staff to administrative and state-based leaders. Furthermore, we help agencies leverage their internal resources to evaluate their efforts, demonstrate achievements, secure additional funding, and make sustain innovative programming for these individuals.

Through our collaborations, we have also developed TAYYA-specific practice tips, guidelines, manuals and tools for administrators, clinicians, care coordinators, employment and education specialists, and peer mentors that we share and adapt for agencies we work with.

We tailor our training, technical assistance and consulting approach to your agency or system’s needs. We are most well-known for our work in systematically adapting evidence-based practices for TAYYA in the following areas:

  • Outreach and engagement for marginalized, hard to engage populations
  • Evidence-Based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Supported Employment
  • Supported Education in high schools and post-secondary settings
  • Young adult Peer Support and mentoring
  • Assertive Community Treatment and multidisciplinary, community-based team models
  • Supported housing and skill development for young people at high-risk for homelessness
  • Blending clinical, vocational, and residential care for marginalized, system-involved individuals
  • Sustaining innovation within fiscally conservative contexts
  • Administrative, clinical and research partnerships for effective and feasible program evaluation
  • Using data and qualitative information to build community awareness of your services
STATES AND AGENCIES WE HAVE PROVIDED TRAINING, CONSULTATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO:
  • Integrating TAYYA peer-provided vocational practices and developing young adult peer mentor onboarding process, Jewish Board of New York, Bridging the Gap
  • Developing and testing the “Helping Youth on the Path to Employment” (HYPE) Model Fidelity Scale, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research
  • Building and implementing TAYYA teams, Heart of Texas HTI, Waco, TX
  • Building and implementing TAYYA teams, Integral Care TAY Services, Austin, TX
  • Integrating Supported Employment and Education and Peer Support into coordinated specialty care for a recent onset of psychosis, Northwestern REPP
  • Developing and evaluating TAYYA practice manual and examining child to adult service transitions in Texas, UT-Austin, Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health
  • Developing training and support tools for young adult peer mentor supervisors, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Success for Transition-Age Youth and CBH Knowledge Center
  • Improving vocational and peer service delivery, Tennessee Healthy Transitions Initiative
  • Through UMASS Transitions to Adulthood, Integrating Young Adult Peer Mentors in Community Mental Health, New Mexico Children Youth & Families Department
  • Expert review of online mental health provider training materials for engaging and effectively working with transition-age youth mental health, Portland State Pathways RTC
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