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Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research

We are a research center in the Psychiatry Dept. https://linktr.ee/transitionsacr

at UMass Chan Medical School focused on improving educational & employment outcomes for transition-aged youth with mental health conditions.

10/23/2025

Hot off the press is our October Newsletter! Find out the latest on young adult mental health from school to employment.

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10/14/2025

Volunteering offers individuals a meaningful way to engage with and contribute to their communities while also supporting personal and professional development. To learn more, check out our latest tip sheet, Get Involved, Get Inspired: How to Start Volunteering Now, available for free on our website (https://buff.ly/2DQFFFn).

For more information about The CIRC Center, visit our website (https://buff.ly/AVvd330).

And don't forget to follow TransitionsACR for more CIRC Center content!

10/07/2025

This clip comes from STAY Tuned Podcast Episode 24: Bridging the Gap in College Mental Health: Peer Academic Supports for Success and features Paul Cherchia, assistant director at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. In this episode, Paul talked about PASS (Peer Academic Supports for Success) — a peer coaching program supporting college students with mental health challenges. Paul shared how PASS was developed, its evidence-based success, and its unique model that pairs trained student coaches with other students to foster academic and emotional well-being. Check out the full episode for his full story: https://buff.ly/ez3PFAz

Don't forget to follow TransitionsACR for more Learning & Working RRTC content!

09/23/2025

The Center for Inclusion and Reflective Collaboration (CIRC Center) within the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research and the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion is looking to interview young adults (ages 18-30) with mental health conditions from marginalized backgrounds about your community participation.

The study explores what community participation means to you, including your experiences since the COVID pandemic. These interviews will be conducted over Zoom and will last up to 90 minutes.

If you are interested, please fill out the eligibility survey (link in the comments below👇) to determine if you can participate in an interview or contact a member of our team at Mei.Pearlstein@umassmed.edu.

09/22/2025

This clip comes from STAY Tuned Podcast Episode 26: Body Talk and Belonging: Eating Disorder Recovery in a Social World and features Young Adult Advisory Board member Jamie Yang. In this episode, Jamie talked about her journey of resilience and growth in navigating recovery from an eating disorder. She highlighted the powerful role of community in fostering healing through friendships and hobbies. Check out the full episode for her full story: https://buff.ly/GJET7yu

Don't forget to follow TransitionsACR for more CIRC Center content!

07/14/2025

Getting accommodations at work can seem like an intimidating process, so we've put together a few tips to help understand how it works! For more detailed information, make sure to check out The Learning & Working RRTC's tip sheet, Accommodations at Work: What Do I Need to Know? https://buff.ly/dLUQ6Fq

06/29/2025

YA Blog 🚨: From Escapism to Belonging: My Journey with Volunteering

"It takes one person to make a difference. Now imagine an organized group working together to make changes and support their communities. That is the power of volunteering, and I encourage you to get involved for a cause."

Keep reading to see the journey YA Advisory Member, KNR, to find a sense of community and sense of belonging while making a difference. https://buff.ly/KxiBrZ1

06/23/2025

Friendships and communities come in all different forms! Join us as we listen to STAY Tuned podcast guest Derek Lewis talk about the connections he forged through online gaming. You can listen to Derek's full episode on YouTube (https://buff.ly/HZFtvSP) and Spotify (https://buff.ly/YU5Bjdv).

06/19/2025

New Blog Alert from our YA Advisory Board.

From Isolation to Inspiration: How Creative Communities Saved My Mental Health by Davy Yue
..."Writing and creative expression have always been my lighthouse in the unforgiving sea of mental health struggles. During the pandemic, I connected with many others who shared much compassion in grappling with their own mental issues and wellness. In those many virtual exchanges of poetic words and musical triumphs, my flame of hope ignited into a great furnace of understanding that the future still had much in store for me. With each virtual gathering, I was reminded again and again that even in the soft, dimmed light of uncertainty, the warmth of community’s embrace could guide us toward a promising new glimmering dawn.".......

https://buff.ly/jKUNxpe

05/22/2025

ACL’s NIDILRR has made research a national priority, bringing real programs and inclusive practices into our communities. NIDILRR is the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. It is part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL). With a recent proposal to restructure the Department of Health and Human Services, the future of ACL and NICILRR have been uncertain. Learn more about this critical work and why

05/20/2025

don't miss this important virutal conference from our sister center UMass SPARC

05/08/2025

We are attending! Are you?

Have you registered for our 2025 Annual Massachusetts DMH Research Centers of Excellence Conference yet? We have some very interesting and important youth mental health topics being featured this year.

- with Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and MGH Center of Excellence for Psychosocial and Systemic Research

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225 Maple Street
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

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http://umassmed.edu/TransitionsACR, http://linktr.ee/transitionsacr

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Our Story

We are a group of researchers, clinicians, and young adults who want to improve the lives of Youth and Young Adults living with mental health conditions. We do research to understand and establish better ways to support this population in their education and job goals, and translate the results into knowledge which we then share with a mixed audience of researchers, service providers, policy-makers, young adults, and family members.

Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research (Transitions ACR) is part of University of Massachusetts Medical School and our mission is to promote the full participation in socially valued roles of transition-age youth and young adults (ages 14-30) with serious mental health conditions. We use the tools of research and knowledge translation in partnership with this at risk population to achieve this mission. We produce Tip Sheets, Issue Briefs, Posters, Presentations, Webinars and Events to disseminate our research results. You can find them all here: https://www.umassmed.edu/sparc/

We also believe that Youth Voice is essential to everything we do. Youth Voice means the empowerment and involvement of young people in all levels of services. For example: as individual consumers of services, as advisors to systems, or as members of a research team. Transitions ACR has recognized the importance of implementing a PAR (Participatory Action Research) Framework to support the employment and education efforts of youth and young adults (Y&YA) with serious mental health conditions. You can find more information about our Youth Voice here: https://www.umassmed.edu/TransitionsACR/youth-voice/