Just Do You Program for Young Adults With Serious Mental IIlness

Just Do You is an intervention designed to keep young adults connected to their professional behavioral health treatments. It is a brief two-module engagement program that utilizes a hybrid provider team of a licensed clinician and peer to increase young adult engagement in adult outpatient day programs (i.e., New York State Personalized Recovery Oriented Services). The first session consists of the following components: 1) Welcome; Group Guidelines, Purpose, 2) Discuss Recovery Principles; Narrative of Role Model; 3) Video of Celebrity Service User and Discussion, and 4) Recovery Goals (and role of services in that). The second session consists of: 1) What are services \& how can they help? 2) Visual art exercise -- Cause of SMI and validation, 3) Maintaining my Medicaid Insurance, and 4) Discussion of Systemic Barriers.

The active control condition will receive the PROS program that is standard in the agencies, and a two-session curriculum on maintaining healthy relationships, which is an identified issue for the population.