Pee Dee Mental Health
Youth in Transition
Program
Mission Statement
The Pee Dee Mental Health Center will provide effective
mental health services to the people of Darlington,
Florence, and Marion counties who are experiencing
emotional or psychiatric distress. Emphasis will be
directed to individuals with serious mental illness and
families with emotionally disturbed children.
The Center will involve itself in promoting a quality of
life with enhances the mental of the people of this area,
and will work cooperatively with other organizations and
individuals to develop additional resources and services
to carry out this mission.
Introduction
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Young adults experience dramatic changes across all areas of
development during their transition to adulthood.
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Young people’s decisions, choices, and associated experiences set a
foundation for their transition to future adult roles in the domains
of employment, education, living situation, and community-life
functioning.
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This population of young people have higher secondary school
dropout rates, higher rates of arrest and unemployment, and lower
rates of independent living compared to their peers without
disabilities.
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Difficulties in accessing appropriate supports and services
continues to plague young people and their parents and providers.
Program Overview
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Engage young people through relationship
development, person-centered planning, and
a focus on their futures.
Tailor services and supports to be accessible,
coordinated, appealing, developmentallyappropriate, and build on strengths to enable
the young people to pursue their goals across
all transition domains.
Program Overview cont.
3. Acknowledge and develop personal choice
and social responsibility with young people.
4. Ensure a safety-net of support by involving a
young person’s parents, family members, and
other informal and formal key players.
Program Overview cont.
5. Enhance young persons’ competencies to assist
them in achieving greater self-sufficiency and
confidence.
6. Maintain an outcome focus in the YTP system
at the young person, program, and community
levels.
Successful /recovery transition
includes four Transition
Domains: The three setting
domains (Employment,
Education, and Living Situation)
and the one Community Life
Functioning domain shown in this
figure are useful in capturing
young people’s attention and their
focus on their futures. The
Community Life domain
encompasses the individual’s
personal effectiveness/wellbeing and
other skills and resources that are
relevant to one’s success in each of
the other domains, as well as for
community-life functioning.
Warning Signs
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Confused thinking
Long-lasting sadness or
irritability
Extremely high and low moods
Excessive fear, worry, or anxiety
Social withdrawal
Dramatic changes in eating or
sleeping habits
Strong feelings of anger
Delusions or hallucinations
(seeing or hearing things that
are not really there)
Increasing inability to cope with
daily problems and activities
Thoughts of suicide
Denial of obvious problems
Abuse of drugs and/or alcohol
Services
A full array of outpatient services
will be provided to assist clients in
the Youth in Transition Program
including:
 Diagnostic Assessment
 Group Therapy
 Individual Therapy
 Family Therapy
 Rehabilitative Psychosocial Service
 Crisis Intervention
 Psychiatric Mental Assessment
 Medication Monitoring
 Nursing Services
 Targeted Case Management
Clientele
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17-26 years old
Male and female
Individuals impacted by
mental and/or substance
use disorders.
Staff/Training
Each staff member is creative,
has extensive experience,
education and training in the
field of mental health.
The professional staff have a
critical role to play in helping
the youth navigate their way
through the various
uncoordinated service
tunnels, avoid transition cliffs
and connect them with the
appropriate resource.
Kengi Stevenson, MA
Youth in Transition
Pee Dee Mental Health
125 E. Cheves St.
Florence, SC 29532
843-317-4073
Email: kjs77@scdmh.org