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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is now #988

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College Faculty Guide to Academic Supports for College Students with Serious Mental Health Conditions

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Our Goals

Support youth & young adults as students, learners, and workers. Youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions face obstacles in learning & working.
Our Goals

Examine ways that interventions can better address the unique needs of youth & young adults. Effective developmentally appropriate & appealing services are rare.
Our Goals

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.
Directors Statement about Black Lives Matter

As Director of the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research, I speak for the Center in agreeing with the principle that Martin Luther King Jr. so powerfully stated “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

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Monday, March 13, 2023

We're Recruiting for our FSST at Work Study

The main purpose of FSST (Focused Skills and Strategy) At Work is to develop and test a course for employed young adults, ages 18 to 30 years old, with mental health conditions. This course aims to help young adults keep their jobs and improve work outcomes by teaching and developing skills around attention, working memory, planning/time management, and problem solving.

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Wednesday, February 08, 2023

We're Hiring Come Join Our Team!

Do you have a passion for mental health? Are you looking to grow your career in an academic research setting? If the answer is yes, then check out all of the great employment opportunities (hybrid eligible) we have within iSPARC and our research centers. Consider applying today or share with someone you know who would be interested!

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Friday, January 27, 2023

Episode 7: Is anybody out there? The isolation of adulthood

Hello hello! Emily and I are back this week with a special episode of STAY tuned. In this episode, Emily and I wanted to let you guys get to know us a little bit better. We keep it real and discuss our struggles in creating healthy routines in a life where screens dominate our whole day and later get into the lonely reality of post-grad life. How does one make friends outside of work and school? We would love to know. Later on, we get a little meta and discuss some of our thoughts on what it's like making this podcast and the challenges of using social media for our job.

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Friday, January 06, 2023

Promoting Young Adult Success in School and Work - Free Training for Providers

Our new training program is designed to offer information and resources to people interested in supporting youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions in their transition to employment and/or post-secondary education.

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