The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health has been funded by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, to support the work of the grant communities involved with the Healthy Transitions Initiative. The Healthy Transitions Initiative is a cross-agency initiative aimed at addressing issues that youth and young adults encounter as they transition to adulthood.  This initiative will create developmentally appropriate and effective youth guided local systems of care to improve outcomes in the areas of education, employment, housing, mental health and co-occurring disorders and decrease contacts with the juvenile and criminal justice systems. 

Seven states have been awarded five-year cooperative agreements that began in fiscal year 2009. These states are: Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wisconsin.  Each grant community is required to attend annual national meetings organized by Georgetown to support their work.

This year’s national  meeting was held in Annapolis, Maryland, from April 13-15, 2010.  The meeting's focus was on policy an dincluded pre-conference affinity meetings on the following subjects:

• A focus on local and national evaluation for key evaluators
• A focus on young adults and policy for Youth Coordinators and young adult recipients of service
• A focus on finance for Principal Investigators

Please click here to view or download materials from the April 2010 Healthy Transitions National Meeting.

Additional information will be posted to this page as the initiative develops.  I If you have any questions about this or other initiatives that address the needs of young adults of transition age, please contact Gwen White at 202-687-7157.