Resource: Transitions
Developer: mentalhealthliteracy.org
Transitions
Transitions is a life-skills and wellbeing resource directed toward older adolescents and young adults in their first year(s) of post-secondary education. This resource is designed for self-directed reading and focuses on novel aspects of young adulthood such as mental health, relationships, time management, and academics. Transitions was developed, and is maintained by a collaborative team of mental health experts, clinicians, and scientists from Alberta Health Services, and the departments of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University and the University of Alberta.
“Transitions”, [...] provides first-year students with information on topics including time management, relationships, sexual activity, mental illness, suicide and addictions. [Transitions] also includes mental health self-help information and contains recommendations where students can go to get help on their campus.” - mentalhealthliteracy.org
Key Findings
Transitions demonstrates significant positive impacts on most Mental Health Literacies among youth entering, or having recently entered post-secondary education.
Transitions has been shown to have significant positive effects on the following key-pillars of Mental Health Literacy:
- Knowledge
- Help Seeking
- Stigma
- Obtaining & Maintaining Positive Mental Health
- Recognition of Mental Disorders
The key pillar Recognition of Mental Disorders was not assessed among the studies evaluating Transitions. Thus we have no insight into this program’s efficacy with regard to this key pillar.
Transitions is fully-translated and available in the following languages by following the ‘Resource’ link above
- English
- French
Transitions has been successfully adapted into a teacher-led classroom curricular resource for educators wishing to utilize the resource in health-education or other curricula.
For more information on our scoring system, criteria, and outcomes for Transitions, please see the Evaluation Process & Scoring page
English 
French