The CSC model emphasizes outreach and engagement, and interventions typically last for two years. Treatment decision making is shared among team members, and an individualized treatment plan is developed to reflect the youth's own goals and preferences. Each team is to consist of 6–8 behavioral health providers who fill the following roles: Team Leader, Clinician/Psychotherapist, Psychiatrist, Nurse, Supported Employment and Education Specialist, Case Manager, and Recovery Coach. This CSC model uses a multidisciplinary team approach including health professionals, specialty care providers, youth and their family members working together to reach a youth's recovery goals. RI HT was modeled after an evidence-based Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) model developed and used throughout New York for transition-aged youth with first episode psychosis (FEP see, accessed 03-26-19). Utilizing a multidisciplinary and community-based approach, RI HT seeks to improve the behavioral health of transition-aged youth, including youth on the cusp of aging out of the child behavioral health system, to help them lead healthy and productive lives as adults. In 2015, the state of Rhode Island implemented the Healthy Transitions Project (RI HT) with support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to address the needs of youth and young adults ages 16–25 with serious emotional disturbance, severe mental illness, and/or co-occurring substance use disorders. 1 As a result, treatment and support services that effectively meet the unique needs of this population are critically necessary. 1 With the continuity of care across child and adult institutions often lacking, many of these individuals lose access to important services and supports once they age out of the child mental health system and legally enter adulthood. Youth and young adults with serious emotional disturbance often struggle with adult roles and responsibilities (e.g., educational attainment, employment, housing). The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a challenging developmental period for many individuals and is significantly more so for those with serious emotional disturbance. Bassett, Denise Achin, Bridget Bennett, Barbara Lamoureux, & L. "Improving Life Trajectories: Outcomes from the Rhode Island Healthy Transitions Project" (2019) Abstract: This article describes how the RI Healthy Transitions Project utilized a coordinated specialty care-based model to improve social functioning and reduce troubling symptoms among young people experiencing First Episode Psychosis.
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