Successful Launch

What is this service?

With the support of Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) funding, Cuesta College provides high risk transitional aged youth (TAY) with supportive life-skill services intended to facilitate self-sufficiency and independent living - critical to successful early adulthood.

Services include:

  • Assistance with navigating the legal system
  • Assistance with accessing medical care
  • Assistance with accessing food and basic living needs (eg Cal-Fresh)
  • Assistance with accessing shelter
  • Nutritional education
  • Financial literacy workshops
  • Assistance with obtaining a driver’s license


MHSA models this program after the Independent Living Program to include graduating community school youth, Wards of the Court, homeless, and other high risk transitional-aged youth (TAY).