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To empower Transitional Age Youth (TAY) to be leaders in community and mental health system transformation and to create positive change through the promotion of culturally appropriate supports, services and approaches that improve and maintain the mental health of California’s TAY. To empower Transitional Age Youth (TAY) to be leaders in community and mental health system transformation and to create positive change through the promotion of culturally appropriate supports, services and approaches that improve and maintain the mental health of California’s TAY.

Transitional Aged Youth Program: Aspiranet’s TAY program provides all the necessities required for a young adult to start their independent life. Thanks in part to an ongoing partnership with Ashley HomeStore, TAY youth are provided with a furnished apartment, including a bed, furniture and everything else needed to make a house a home. Through ongoing classes, they receive employment and education assistance, help with resume building and a clear direction on where their path will lead. In California, roughly 3% of foster youth attend college. Aspiranet’s TAY program addresses these educational deficiencies by helping foster youth complete high school and prepare to enter college.  

Transitional Youth Success (TYS) will help you design a plan and turn that plan into the reality you want it to be. Your plan may change as you go through the program. Your personal Transition Coach will help guide you through to a successful conclusion. TYS is dedicated and invested in you and the success of your personal transition plan. Education counselors are here to assist you with filling out your FAFSA, or applying for CHAFFEE grants. TYS will host monthly, and individual trainings specifically designed to assist you in transitioning from foster care successfully. We will offer education information, tours of colleges, vocation assistance, introduction to services, such as; orientations with Work Force Connection, Focus Forward, Fresno County Independent Living Program, budget plan training, housing plans, outside cooking classes, healthy relationships, legal issues, and substance abuse referral services. TYS will assist you in obtaining your personal documents including: birth certificates, social security cards, medical records, driver’s license and more. After developing your transition plan we will support areas that are working and assist with areas that need improvement. TYS will provide a Transition Coach that will meet with you individually, although it is your responsibility to reach out to your

Youth Bridge is a non-profit agency in northern Arkansas. Their services include providing safe havens and individual treatment plans, aftercare, prevention programs, and transitional living. They have the Journey Program, which provides treatment for substance abuse and other behavioral disorders. It offers comprehensive residential treatment for teenage boys from 14 to 18 years old. They are taken through a twelve-step plan that involves learning new and productive daily living skills. There is also the Bell Program, which is a group “foster care” program for young ladies in the Department of Children and Family Services system from age 16 to 18 who do not have stable housing. The program is aimed at preparing these young women for adulthood by participating in program goals, education, independent case plans, and therapeutic activities. Youth Bridge also has the Emergency Shelter Program, which is a year round emergency shelter for at-risk youth from 13 to 18 years old, that can help them achieve both short-term and long-term needs. Basic needs are met, counseling and targeted case management is provided for substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, mental health issues and behavioral problems. School or continuation placement and transportation are also provided. If these young adults cannot

The Teen Action and Support Center has developed a project called the Teen Thrive NWA. It provides a place for teens with housing insecurity, and other hardships. They will be provided a pathway out of poverty by locating, assessing, and offering continued guidance and care to homeless youth, which can result in higher educational attainment, longer lifetime earning potential, and better health outcomes. They serve young teenage men and women with physical and referral resources, connections, mentors, and other programs. These can include counseling, family and school mediation, referrals to mental health services, parenting education for teenage parents, and job readiness. The first steps include managing their cases and connecting them with more resources in the community, such as emergency and transitional housing, mental health services, food, job training and assistance, and more.