1. What Works for Transitioning Youth with Emotional Disabilities Ann Deschamps Maryland Seamless Transition Collaborative Dana Hackey and Benton Wesmiller Healthy Transitions Initiative Maryland Transition Conference 2011

2. Overview  Transitioning youth with EBD who are they and how are they different from transitioning youth with other disabilities? who are they and how are they different from transitioning youth with other disabilities? what’s happening to them now? what’s happening to them now?  Biggest barriers to seamless transition?  What they say works  How are they best served?

3. Who are TAY with EBD? NLTS2 found that the majority of youth with EBD :  male  living in poverty  HOH has no education past high school  ADHD  disability is identified later (age 9 or after)  40% have attended five or more schools  history of social adjustment problems  suspended or expelled at least once

4. What is Unique?  Disability typically impairs social participation  Blaming; parents and youth themselves blamed for the disability  Stigma  Living in poverty, single head of household, unemployed head of household (Wagner et al., 2005) Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011 Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011

5. What’s Unique?  Presence of disability not obvious  Ignorance; disability identified late and treatment delayed, behavioral nature of disability leads to confusion about treatment versus “socialization”  Conditions are treatable and disability often ends Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011 Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011

6. What’s Happening Now?  Lowest High School completion rate (56%) of any disability category of Students with IEP’s (65-95%) ( NLTS-2; http://ies.ed.gov/ncser/pdf/NLTS2_selfdeterm_11_23_05.pdf ) http://ies.ed.gov/ncser/pdf/NLTS2_selfdeterm_11_23_05.pdf  46% - Proportion of failure to complete secondary education attributable to MH conditions (Vander Stoep et al., 2003)  Experiences the lowest rates of school performance (attendance, grades, grade retention) Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011 Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011

7. What’s Happening Now?  NLTS2 - 42% of students in ED category who were out of school were in paid employment (compared to 56.8% cross disability)  Students with ED had shortest duration of jobs (8 months vs. 10 cross disability)  34% attended some post secondary education or training (compared to 45% cross disability) Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011 Source: Maryann Davis presentation Mental Health and Secondary Transition. 5th Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute, Charlotte, NC, May 2011

8. What works?

9. How can we best serve transitioning youth with emotional and behavioral disabilities?