Help A Young Person (ages 13-25) Prepare for Adulthood

Here are some ways we help your teenager/young adult prepare for adulthood:

• Provide opportunities for your teen to build self-advocacy skills

• Encourage teens to be active participants in their service planning meetings with their Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings. Teach them to ask questions, identify goals, and choose the topics to be addressed,

• Help teens understand the role and purpose of each professional on their treatment team,

• Help teens participate in developing their Independent Service Plan (ISP) and understand how it helps to meet their health care needs.

Also teaching self-advocacy skills. If the teen will be his or her own guardian, we teach him or her to speak on their own behalf, ask questions, and follow through. The sooner teens learn these skills, the more successful they will be in early adulthood.

Teens will be coached and empowered to direct their own recovery and advocate for themselves.

Without Financial Literacy

Children Can Experience a Poor Quality of Life as an Adult

• They are more likely to have poor lives and deal with depression.

• They don't understand how money works and they end up in debt.

• They end up spending money that they don't have.

• They make poor choices that negatively impact their future.

• They're less likely to afford the education they need to live the life they want.

• They're more likely to be in trouble with the law.

• They're not able to make the plans that they want for their futures.

• They're not able to properly contribute to their own families in the future.

NEXGEN is for persons, age 14-21

1. Print School-Based Universal Referral Form (bring to your appointment)

2. Schedule an appointment

3. Have school complete referral form

4. Bring referral form, Insurance card, Guardian identification, Name of student's primary doctor and parent or guardian to student's appointment.