Sessions
"Refocus: Navigating the Path to Employment for Individuals with a Disability" - Morning Session
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Tue
Natalee Solomon is the Director of Transition-Aged Youth and Young Adult Services at the Behavioral Health Administration. She has been with the administration since 2017 and has worked in children’s mental health services since 2005. In this role she serves as the program administrator providing administrative oversight of the day to day operations of residential and community based programs for Transition-Aged Youth (TAY) and Young Adult. In addition, she provides administrative oversight to Maryland Early Intervention Programs which serve youth and young adults, ages 15-30, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorder, diagnosed in accordance with DSM-V criteria, for which the current episode of psychosis is within two years of the first onset of psychiatric symptoms and Healthy Transitions, a federal grant from The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA, which builds upon progress Maryland has made in the past several years to continue providing evidence-based, developmentally, culturally, and linguistically competent practices to TAY, ages 16-25, who have a serious mental health condition (SMHC); unidentified TAY who are at risk of developing an SMHC; and the general population who could benefit from increased awareness and education. She graduated from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland with a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Psychology
and received a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Bowie State University in Bowie,
Maryland.