Director of Admissions
Tracy Bailey
Admissions Email
Admissions Phone
Physical Address
Onward Transitions PO Box 738
Portland,
ME
onwardtransitions.com
Onward Transitions: Progress you'll be proud of.
Onward Transitions in Portland, Maine, is a small, independent, owner-operated program for up to 15 bright, motivated, emerging adults in the final stages of learning to live on their own. OT supports actual, sustainable independent living through a combination of face-to-face and virtual therapeutic support. Participants (Members) ages 18-30 never live with us; they live in their own apartments throughout the city.
Members are kind, accepting, bright, and motivated to live on their own. Common clinical foci include mild to moderate forms of anxiety, depression, and executive functioning/ADHD challenges. OT provides multiple sessions of weekly individual and group therapy, and family work by our three full-time, on-site master's level therapists specializing in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT.) The typical length of stay is 12-15 months.
Each member has their own individual schedule. Members gather for meals, therapy, coaching, and any of our 14 group offerings. Members walk, ride, use public transportation, and their own vehicles to get to and from their OT services. When "shelter in place mandates" occur, all program offerings easily pivot to a 100% online format.
Full-time coordinators meet with members weekly to accomplish learning, wellness, career exploration, and community connection goals. OT is open for drop-in visits, spontaneous gatherings, snacks, and camaraderie. OT provides regularly scheduled virtual apartment consults and 24-hour on-call services.
Please call for Covid updates.
General Information
Private Company - Owners On-Site
Leased By Program
Annual years
Private owner
General Information
Private Company - Owners On-Site
Leased By Program
Annual years
Private owner
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
No
0 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.