About The Program Launch

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  • Ohio Healthy Transitions Project is a five-year SAMHSA grant awarded to OMHAS in 2018, in partnership with DODD, CWRU and Wingspan Care Group.
  • NEED: Less than a quarter (21.8%) of mental health services in Ohio (2017) offered programs exclusively dedicated to or designed for Transitional Age Youth (TAY)- Source: SAMHSA, National Mental Health Services Survey, Ohio 2017
  • Address unmet needs of youth and young adults in Cuyahoga and Lorain counties, aged 16–25, with serious emotional disturbance (SED), a serious mental illness (SMI), or co-occurring mental health and intellectual developmental disabilities (I/DD).
  • Wingspan collaborates with local partners to promote awareness of unique challenges faced by transitional-aged youth (TAY) with behavioral health and intellectual/developmental disabilitiest, and provide culturally representative services including a full continuum of life-skills, vocational, educational, and social-emotional wellness.
  • Since the beginning of the grant, we have served more than 300 youth/young adults in Cuyahoga and Lorain Counties
  • Long-term goal of this grant is to replicate the Healthy Transitions Project state-wide

 

OHTP Goals

1. Increase awareness among youth, young adults, their families,and youth serving providers on the best-practice programs andservices (signs and symptoms) of serious mental illness

2. Demonstrate engagement strategies and policyrecommendations for serving the unique needs of the target TAY that can be replicated in more communities statewide

3. Equip TAY providers with training resources to co-create strategies with youth that encompass self-directed pathways for education, employment, health, independent living andcommunity involvement

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