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- - The study investigates the availability and effectiveness of transition services within state mental health systems that help adolescents move into adulthood, focusing on aspects like supported housing and vocational support.
- - A survey was conducted with mental health administrators from nearly all states, revealing that many states, particularly in the adult system, lack sufficient transition services, with over 25% of child systems and 50% of adult systems providing none.
- - The findings highlight a significant gap in transition support services across the U.S., indicating that substantial changes are necessary in the adult mental health system to meet the needs of young people with serious mental health issues.
Article Abstract
Objective: This study describes the existence and nature of services within state child and adult mental health systems that support the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Methods: State child and adult mental health administrators from all but one state were interviewed by telephone with a semistructured questionnaire regarding transition services in their state mental health system, such as supported housing, vocational support, preparation for independent living, and dual diagnosis treatment. Eight states were deemed sufficiently decentralized to render state-level administrator reports invalid. Specific service data from the remaining 41 states and the District of Columbia were analyzed with descriptive statistics.
Results: One-quarter of child state mental health systems and one-half of adult state mental health systems offered no transition services, and few provided any kind of transition service at more than one site. Most types of transition services were available at all in less than 20 percent of the states.
Conclusions: Across the United States transition support services are lacking. The adult system in particular will require major transformation to provide the service capacity that is needed to meet the current standards of transition service accessibility for young Americans with serious mental health conditions.
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