Consultation

Actively provide consultation and capacity building activities with personnel, youth, young adults, family members, and other stakeholders in communities, agencies, and states as they fully plan and implement transition supports and services across the transition domains of education, employment, living situation, personal effectiveness/wellbeing, and community-life functioning.

• Collaborative partnerships, including transformative community leadership
• Strategic planning leading to action plans & commitment from community partners
• Community resource mapping & logic models
• Implementation of an effective community transition system (e.g., TIP Model)
• Program manuals for fidelity of transition system implementation.
• Youth involvement/youth councils/youth leadership
• Linkages among diverse partners/collaborators
• Personnel training materials, modules, & workshops
• Competency-based on-site & web-based skill training & coaching
• Site capacity to train, coach, supervise, & manage personnel & operations
• Sustainability planning, funding strategies, & related resource allocation

TheTIPsystem

The mission of the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) system is to assist young people with emotional and/or behavioral difficulties (EBD) in making a successful transition to adulthood.

Transition of Youth and Young Adults with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties: An Evidence-Supported Handbook

Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of professionals, parents, and young people, sthis book collects our most current knowledge on supporting transitions for young people with mental health issues.