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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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Introducing the DeafYES! Website

It's National Deaf Awareness Month and we are excited to introduce the new DeafYES! website in recognition of supporting empowerment and recovery tools created by and for deaf people.

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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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Resources for Addressing Food Insecurity and Other Social Determinants of Health in Worcester, MA

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the environmental, social, and economic factors that can impact people’s quality of life and health. This tip sheet is a list of resources available in the Worcester community to help families and community partners navigate local and state resources to address food insecurity and other social determinants of health.

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