• Improving Mental Health Service Delivery: Focus on Coordinated Specialty Care for Youth with First Episode Psychosis Using Resources Available through the Workforce Development System and American Rescue Plan: This brief discusses the importance of early intervention in mental health service delivery for youth experiencing their first episode psychosis (FEP) through Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC). It describes how elements of CSC service delivery, including supported employment (SE) and education, can be funded using traditional (e.g., MHBG and Medicaid, state funds) and less traditional funding sources, including through the workforce development system. It also outlines the significant investments in mental health and substance use service delivery and related infrastructure made by the Biden-Harris Administration.
  • Center for Advancing Policy on Employment for Youth (CAPE-Youth): An ODEP-funded collaborative that works to improve employment outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities, including mental health conditions, by helping states build capacity in their youth service delivery and workforce systems.
  • Transitions ACR: Resources and research to promote full participation in socially valued roles of transition-age youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions. Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research is a Research and Training Center located at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
  • Adapting Supported Employment for Emerging Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions: An article from the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research regarding effective services that are needed to assist young people with serious mental health conditions to successfully transition to employment or education.