Director of Admissions
Tracy Bailey
Admissions Email
Admissions Phone
Physical Address
Onward Transitions 105 Main St.
SOUTH PORTLAND,
ME
onwardtransitions.com
Empowering a kind generation of contributing young adults.
Onward Transitions in S. Portland, Maine, just two hours north of Boston, is a small, independent, owner-operated program for up to 18 bright, motivated, emerging adults learning to live on their own. OT supports actual, sustainable independent living, helping emerging adults become more autonomous. Participants (members) ages 18-30 never live with us; they live in their apartments throughout the city, selected according to personal preferences and resources.
Members have to be in the driver’s seat to become autonomous adults, and we serve as their guard rails. Our clinical and coaching teams (staff to student ratio is 1:2) support them with structure and accountability while working towards the goals members have established using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Unlike living in program housing or living with a roommate, members experience real-life accountability.
Members are kind, accepting, bright, and motivated to live on their own. Clinical foci include mild to moderate anxiety, depression, and EF/ND/LD challenges. OT provides multiple sessions of weekly individual and group therapy, and family work by our four full-time, on-site master's level therapists specializing in ACT. The typical length is 12 months.
Members have individual OT corporate UBER accounts, to get to and from our Pine House. The Pine House is also open for 2 meals daily, drop-in visits, snacks, and camaraderie with other members and our staff. OT provides regular apartment consults and 24-hour on-call services.
General Information
Private Company - Owners On-Site
Privately Owned
Dicentra Holdings, LLC
General Information
Private Company - Owners On-Site
Privately Owned
Dicentra Holdings, LLC
Learning Disabilites / Spectrum
No
18 - 29
No
9 Months
14
Urban
Apartment Living: Support staff on call
Program
Executive Functioning or Social or Life Skills
Failure to launch
Supportive College Environment
100
Living Skills Focus
Yes
24 Hours
No
Typical Vacations (holidays, summer, etc)
No
Unstructured Communication
Private Pay
Apartment Living: Support staff on call
Provided as Part of Program
Yes
Technology
Staff
1:0
No
No
Accreditation
Nuts & Bolts
Call for more information
Call for more information
No
Portland [PWM]
0.25 Hours
No
No
9 Months
9 Months
None
1 Hours
14
Transitional Living / Community Based Support
No
17 - 26
Program
Executive Functioning or Social or Life Skills
Failure to launch
Yes
10 Hours
No
Typical Vacations (holidays, summer, etc)
Yes
Urban
Unstructured Communication
Private Pay
Apartment Living: Support staff on call
Therapy
Provided as Part of Program
Yes
Offsite
Technology
Students have Laptops and unlimited Internet Access
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Students are required to have cell phones
Education
College, university, vocational, CNA, driver's ed, within 4 mile radius.
Staff
1:3
Yes
Yes
Accreditation
No Academic Accredidation
Nuts & Bolts
Call for more information
Call for more information
No
Portland [PWM]
0.25 Hours
No
No
3 Months
6 Months
Private / Self Pay
None are required by state
Within one hour of our notification
Mission Statement
Onward Transitions guides and supports bright, motivated, emerging adults towards sustainable independent living, autonomy and the formation of meaningful reciprocal relationships.