Resource List & Agency Codebook

Transitional Age Youth with mental health issues need support and treatment to succeed at becoming healthy, productive, successful, and independent adults. The Ohio Healthy Transitions Project created a resource list with an aim to provide concise up-to-date information about various support and treatment resources (include Housing, Employment, Education, Food, etc.) in Cuyahoga and Lorain Counties. Additionally, an agency codebook was created to provide easy-to-use codes with information on the agency, service category, and access information which could be used for referral purposes. The resource list was created by compiling individual resource lists from our community partners, adding other publicly available resource information, and continuously updating access information. One of the biggest challenges is to keep the resource list up to date as it requires to be continually reviewed to ensure that it is serving the intended purpose and audience, and that content is current and relevant. A few ways to ensure that the resource list is updated is to use dedicated full-time editors, use link checker to ensure all links are active, and by promptly removing database links that are no longer serving.