Support youth & young adults as students, learners, and workers. Youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions face obstacles in learning & working.
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Examine ways that interventions can better address the unique needs of youth & young adults. Effective developmentally appropriate & appealing services are rare.
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Improve outcomes by effectively disseminating knowledge to key stakeholders. Many of our tip sheets were developed & reviewed with input from young adults with serious mental health conditions.
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Adulting Shorts: Passport to Adulting: Managing Your Paperwork
This info-comic is for youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions with tips about keeping and protecting important personal records and information.
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Episode 11: Progress isn't Linear, You Might Even Need a Detour Out of School
Graduate high school, graduate college, get a job. A deceivingly simple timeline that young adults were expected to follow since they were kids. In reality, life is messy and we're here to tell you detours along the way are normal and there's more than one way to reach your goals. In this episode, we bring on Maya Ingram, a Project Director here at UMass Chan Medical School. Maya tells her story of how she navigated the ups and downs life has thrown at her all while paving the way for her career.
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Upcoming Webinar: Shattering Myths: Performance, Attrition, and Executive Functioning of College Students with Mental Health Conditions
This webinar will discuss the recent findings of Dr. Michelle Mullen and team on the academic persistence of college students with mental health conditions.
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Episode 10: "Too sick" to work? - Breaking the narrative
Join us and Dr. Michelle Mullen CRC, CPRP, as we discuss her work on preventing disability and keeping young adults out of a system that breaks them. She explains why the language used to describe the mental health of young adults is so key and what can be done to change the narrative of self-blame.
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