E17 - Hopeways to Home: Recovery Housing Toolkit for Transitional Age Youth

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM MDT

Location: 603

Interventions that successfully target transitional-age youth can have a transformational impact at a critical developmental stage, radically altering the trajectory of young people's lives. Hopeways to Home provides a comprehensive framework for addressing interconnected challenges and creating opportunities for transitional youth with recovery housing needs. This toolkit highlights best practices for providing uniquely tailored and highly effective services to this frequently overlooked population.

Learning Objectives:

Describe recovery housing needs of transitional age youth (TAY).
Explain the unique recovery roadblocks TAY encounter.
Explore critical features of recovery housing resources for TAY.
Outline effective strategies for providing housing, opportunities, psychiatric and physical care, and empowerment for TAY.
Identify additional resources to locate and develop recovery housing services for TAY.

Disclosure(s):

Tiona Guess Praylow, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, MD, DFAPA: No relevant disclosure to display

Breakout Presenter(s)

Tiona Guess Praylow, MD, MPH

Medical Director
Three Rivers Midlands
Columbia, South Carolina

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, MD, DFAPA

Assistant Professor & Director-Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Disclosure(s): No relevant disclosure to display