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Youth
Facts
100
This is the full title for the acronym ACRA...
What is: A= Adolescent C= Community R= Reinforcement A= Approach
100
The primary delivery setting of ACRA services...
What is in the community
100
Strategies to blend approaches to meet individual needs
What are wrap around services
100
Age of young adults served by the NITT:HT Grant...
What are 16-25 year olds.
100
Youth and young adults, diagnosed with emotional disturbance (SED) 16 up to 18, and medically uninsured.
What is the population of focus for TAY system of care
200
4 of DBH's ASTEP Providers...
What is Hillcrest Children and Family Center, Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), Riverside Treatment Center, and Federal City Recovery
200
The age groups that ACRA does/will service...
What is Adolescents (Age 12-18) and Transitional Age (Age 18-24)
200
Workforce development and training
What is supportive employment through CSA's
200
Services are fragmented for TAY's with SED who are receiving services through other two city agencies...
What is Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) and Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS)
200
Involvement of TAY and family members in the processes and evaluation
What is TAY Engagement
300
The purpose of this project is to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and provide support services through care coordination and planning...
What is SAMHSA Now Is The Time: Healthy Transition's Grant
300
Improving relationships with family, improving pro-social activity engagement, promote abstinence/harm reduction from alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs
What are the goals that ACRA can assist the client with
300
This transitional housing project is located in Ward 8
What is Wayne Place
300
Includes wrap-around services, such as care coordination, mentoring, coaching, educational support, job readiness and training, public transportation and other services to support recovery.
What is recovery support
300
Insufficient identification, screening of undiagnosed TAY's with SED, and lack of recovery supports for the TAY as they enter adulthood
What are service gaps
400
Complete meaning for the acronym ASTEP...
What is: A- Adolescent S-Substance T- Treatment E- Expansion P- Program
400
Aside from the youth, whom else is an important component to the ACRA services...
What is the family or caregiver
400
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Community Based Intervention (CBI), High Fidelity Wraparound, and Transition to Independence (TIP)
What is mental health and support services.
400
Nearly half of the District foster care population is composed of teens and young adults at this age
What is 15 to 21 years old
400
Created the process and outcome measurement systems for evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of multifaceted interventions in complex social settings.
Who is Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark
500
How you screen and assess a youth for substance use/co-occurring...
What is Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN)
500
Tragic shooting that led to the implementation of the Transition Age Youth Grant...
What is the Sandy Hook shooting
500
Providing transition age youth-specific care planning, wrap around, evidence-based practices and recovery supports.
What are Core Service Agencies
500
At these ages many TAY with mental health needs support service and commitments cut off.
What is 18 years of age or 21
500
This is the integration of: (a) clinical expertise/expert opinion, (b) external scientific evidence, and (c) client/patient/caregiver perspectives to provide high-quality services reflecting the interests, values, needs, and choices of the individuals we serve.
What is Evidence Based Practice (EBP)