TRAC -Transition Resource Action Center
Leigh Bryant is an experienced mental health professional currently serving as a Youth Outreach Case Manager at TRAC - Transition Resource Action Center since April 2023. Previously, Leigh held various positions at MHMR of Tarrant County, including QMHP and RCM-H, where the focus was on case management for housing and mental health assistance for the homeless population. Prior experience includes serving as Associate Director at Depression Connection For Recovery from July 2019 to April 2023, providing free mental health groups in Tarrant County, and working as a Housing Specialist at MHMRTC from October 2013 to April 2023, assisting individuals in finding and maintaining housing and employment. Leigh earned a Bachelor of Social Work degree in Social Work, Psychology, and Sociology from Texas Tech University between 1998 and 2001.
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TRAC -Transition Resource Action Center
Foster youth face unique challenges as they transition to adulthood. Many of them lack stable housing, employment opportunities, and essential life skills, which often lead to negative outcomes such as homelessness, unemployment, trafficking and incarceration. Since 2003, the Transition Resource Action Center (TRAC, for short) has provided a “one-stop” support center for transitional living services in North Texas for youth exiting foster and juvenile care and their homeless peers. TRAC is the only transition center in the 19 county North Texas Region 3 of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services that comprehensively addresses the needs of this population, working out of offices in Dallas and Fort Worth. TRAC’s “safety-net” approach enhances the provision of seamless, wrap-around, and transitional support services necessary for these youth to develop into self-sufficient young adults. TRAC’s goal is to increase the number of young people who have the necessary skills and resources to transition to adulthood and, ultimately, successful independent living by empowering their progression to independence. Annually, TRAC assists over 1200 of the most challenged, at-risk youth to make a life plan and acquire skills they will need to thrive on their own as they are reaching adulthood. TRAC services include experiential life skills training, coaching/case management, workforce and educational support, housing assistance, and crisis intervention services. The desired goal of TRAC’s comprehensive services is to have vulnerable youth secure safe, stable, and affordable housing, as well as obtain a livable wage job through employment and higher education, and to divert youth from homelessness, sex trafficking, crime and other negative outcomes.