YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT SERVICES

Provider Training & Consulting

Thresholds Youth & Young Adult Services partners with agencies and systems nationwide to strengthen services for transition-age youth and young adults with mental health challenges. Our training and consulting work is grounded in real-world practice, evidence-based models, and decades of experience supporting young people through their transition to adulthood.

We help organizations adapt proven approaches to meet the needs of their communities, improve engagement, and deliver better outcomes. Our work recognizes that services for transition-age youth must be intentionally different from traditional or adult models.

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Services Offered

• On-site training and technical assistance
• Needs assessments and capacity building
• Workforce development and team-based workshops
• Coaching calls and virtual learning
• Program evaluation support and implementation guidance

We also share practical, field-tested tools and resources for clinicians, care coordinators, education and employment specialists, peer mentors, and administrators.

Areas of Expertise

We are best known for adapting and strengthening evidence-based practices for transition-age youth in areas such as:

• Outreach and engagement for marginalized, hard to engage populations
• Evidence-Based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Supported Employment
• Supported Education in high schools and post-secondary settings
• Young adult Peer Support and mentoring
• Assertive Community Treatment and multidisciplinary, community-based team models
• Supported housing and skill development for young people at high-risk for homelessness
• Blending clinical, vocational, and residential care for marginalized, system-involved individuals
• Sustaining innovation within fiscally conservative contexts
• Administrative, clinical and research partnerships for effective and feasible program evaluation
• Using data and qualitative information to build community awareness of your services

Partners We Have Trained and Supported:

• Integrating TAYYA peer-provided vocational practices and developing young adult peer mentor onboarding process, Jewish Board of New York, Bridging the Gap
• Developing and testing the “Helping Youth on the Path to Employment” (HYPE) Model Fidelity Scale, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research
• Building and implementing TAYYA teams, Heart of Texas HTI, Waco, TX
• Building and implementing TAYYA teams, Integral Care TAY Services, Austin, TX
• Integrating Supported Employment and Education and Peer Support into coordinated specialty care for a recent onset of psychosis, Northwestern REPP
• Developing and evaluating TAYYA practice manual and examining child to adult service transitions in Texas, UT-Austin, Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health
• Developing training and support tools for young adult peer mentor supervisors, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Success for Transition-Age Youth and CBH Knowledge Center
• Improving vocational and peer service delivery, Tennessee Healthy Transitions Initiative
• Through UMASS Transitions to Adulthood, Integrating Young Adult Peer Mentors in Community Mental Health, New Mexico Children Youth & Families Department
• Expert review of online mental health provider training materials for engaging and effectively working with transition-age youth mental health, Portland State Pathways RTC

Other Project Partners: 

• Adapting Supported Employment for Transition-Age Youth, UMASS Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research
• Understanding how child welfare providers identify youth with disabilities and connect to Supported Employment programs in Illinois, Northwestern University
• Virtual reality employment interview training project, University of Michigan
• Improving trauma trainings for staff who work with vulnerable and at-risk transition-age youth, Northwestern University Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services & Interventions (CCTASI)
• Mutuality, self-advocacy and peer support in social work, The University of Illinois at Champaign and The University of Hawaii
• Examining mental health condition onset and treatment narratives among TAYYA receiving emergency psychiatric services, University of Houston
• Developing and testing quality measures for the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Solutions Review, Stars Behavioral Health, National Network on Youth in Transition