STRiV Forward in Orem, Utah, is a therapeutic transitional living program for young adults ages 18–25+ who are struggling with independence. We are dedicated to helping our students gain the independence, confidence, and life skills needed to thrive, overcome mental health challenges, and improve overall quality of life.
Young Adult Transitional Living Programs near Lehi, UT
STRiV forward in Orem, Utah, offers a therapeutic transitional living program for young adults who struggle to achieve independence. This program is designed to help emerging adults practice essential life skills in a real-world setting while having access to mental health care and targeted coaching.
These therapeutic aspects are provided by external industry professionals, such as psychiatrists, clinicians, or medical doctors. Students live in fully furnished apartments, with a typical length of stay of 12 months (average 10–14 months).
Our therapeutic programs are best designed to help young adults who lack momentum, direction, and confidence, but are motivated to make personal changes. Students struggling with mental health conditions such as ADHD or anxiety can find personalized treatment plans to help them cope with and healthily manage their conditions. By the time our students are ready to leave STRiV, they will have built a toolkit of skills needed to thrive as independent adults.
To learn how our therapeutic programs can help your emerging adult, contact our admissions team today.
Our therapeutic programs are best designed to help young adults who lack momentum, direction, and confidence, but are motivated to make personal changes. Students struggling with mental health conditions such as ADHD or anxiety can find personalized treatment plans to help them cope with and healthily manage their conditions. By the time our students are ready to leave STRiV, they will have built a toolkit of skills needed to thrive as independent adults.
To learn how our therapeutic programs can help your emerging adult, contact our admissions team today.
Why Families and Students Choose STRiV Forward
STRiV Forward sets itself apart by offering a unique, supportive environment tailored to help young adults build independence and confidence.
Safe Space for Growth: We understand how challenging it can be to transition into adulthood. Our program offers a supportive environment where students can learn from failure and try again without the pressure to be perfect, fostering resilience and confidence.
Personalized Support: Each student receives tailored mental health care that promotes community, growth, and accountability. Our small, boutique setting ensures individualized attention with a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, enabling meaningful connections and personalized guidance.
Community, Not Just Treatment: Students are integrated into a supportive community rather than treated as just participants in a treatment program. We respect their independence through a freedom-first approach that includes no strict curfews and permission to use technology.
Freedom to Pursue Passions: We encourage students to engage in hobbies and activities they love. Our flexible environment promotes self-discovery and confidence, helping students develop independence through meaningful experiences.
Long-Term Relationships: Our dedicated staff has an exceptionally low turnover rate, allowing mentors to build lasting, trust-based relationships with students. This stability supports ongoing growth and personalized mentoring.
Structured Opportunities for Reflection and Growth: Within our safe, supportive environment, students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences, learn from them, and grow at their own pace. The combination of peer and professional support creates a nurturing space.
Safe Space for Growth: We understand how challenging it can be to transition into adulthood. Our program offers a supportive environment where students can learn from failure and try again without the pressure to be perfect, fostering resilience and confidence.
Personalized Support: Each student receives tailored mental health care that promotes community, growth, and accountability. Our small, boutique setting ensures individualized attention with a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, enabling meaningful connections and personalized guidance.
Community, Not Just Treatment: Students are integrated into a supportive community rather than treated as just participants in a treatment program. We respect their independence through a freedom-first approach that includes no strict curfews and permission to use technology.
Freedom to Pursue Passions: We encourage students to engage in hobbies and activities they love. Our flexible environment promotes self-discovery and confidence, helping students develop independence through meaningful experiences.
Long-Term Relationships: Our dedicated staff has an exceptionally low turnover rate, allowing mentors to build lasting, trust-based relationships with students. This stability supports ongoing growth and personalized mentoring.
Structured Opportunities for Reflection and Growth: Within our safe, supportive environment, students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences, learn from them, and grow at their own pace. The combination of peer and professional support creates a nurturing space.
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Step Three
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We will help you coordinate travel logistics and set a start date so you can begin your journey to recovery in a safe, welcoming environment.
Where Young Adults Gain Independent Living Skills
STRiV Forward offers safe, supportive transitional housing in convenient locations near and in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our Orem location, like our other locations, is dedicated to providing our students with the real-world experiences, personalized coaching, and mental health care needed to achieve lasting independence. At STRiV, we help students empower themselves to make consistently healthy decisions as they navigate adulthood.
Apartment Style Living
Students at STRiV live in fully furnished apartments with private bathrooms and bedrooms. This creates a natural, home-like feeling that is safe, comfortable, and supportive. Students learn how to live like adults in a setting as close to real life as possible while accessing professional support.
Specialized support for failure to launch, mental health challenges, and more helps our students practice self-sufficiency, gain confidence, and grow in their skills. Students are responsible for cooking, cleaning, and maintaining their living space while at STRiV Forward.
Specialized support for failure to launch, mental health challenges, and more helps our students practice self-sufficiency, gain confidence, and grow in their skills. Students are responsible for cooking, cleaning, and maintaining their living space while at STRiV Forward.
Safe, Comfortable Spaces That Support Growth
We take safety seriously at STRiV. As such, our campus offers a safe, comfortable environment where students feel secure enough to come out of their shells. Students can learn to fail and pick themselves up again from our supportive staff, which helps our students feel safe enough to view independence as freedom, not fear.
Healing With a Supportive Community
Our community encourages positive mental health in our students by offering sources of support, socialization, and recreation. Students can freely explore our community, give back through community service, participate in exciting events, work, study, socialize, and much more. This facilitates healing, encourages individual growth, and forges friendships that can last a lifetime.
Preparing Young Adults for the Real World
Through practical learning, mental health support, and personalized coaching, we can prepare our students for life as independent adults. Students participate in activities that are as close to real life as possible and are encouraged to step beyond their comfort zone to explore new experiences. The end goal is to ensure that each student has exactly what they need for healthy and lasting independence by the time they are ready to graduate.
Individual Therapy & Psychiatric Support
Mental health challenges are common in young adults. As such, we provide personalized treatment plans with evidence-based therapeutic modalities to address these issues with compassion and respect. Common therapies include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
These treatment plans include outpatient programs conducted by professionals licensed by the State of Utah to provide mental health care. STRiV Forward regularly collaborates with psychiatrists, therapists, and more to ensure each student receives the care they need to thrive.
These treatment plans include outpatient programs conducted by professionals licensed by the State of Utah to provide mental health care. STRiV Forward regularly collaborates with psychiatrists, therapists, and more to ensure each student receives the care they need to thrive.
Creating Bonds With Peers in Group Therapy
Group therapy and process groups are used not only to facilitate healing but also to provide a valuable source of peer support. Students learn that they are not alone in their struggles, receive shared wisdom, and are held accountable for the choices they make. Socialization, group therapy, and process groups provide a foundation that can be used for future healthy peer relationships and interactions.
Life Coaching, Mentorship & Case Management
Among our support services are case management, coaching, and mentorship. Case management enables our staff to provide the specific care each student needs, including aftercare and connections to nonprofit support groups. We utilize a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio so each student receives personalized care and attention in critical skills training, such as executive functioning.
Family Support & Aftercare Planning
We believe that parental and family support is important in the healing process. As such, we offer a parental support program that provides psychoeducation, family therapy as needed, and connections to further support. The goal is to improve communication skills, teach healthy boundaries, and facilitate healthy separation to allow their loved one at STRiV to grow into their independence.
Navigate Real-Life Situations that Support Confidence & Growth
STRiV Forward is as close to real life as it can get while still allowing for professional oversight and support. Students learn wellness skills that keep them physically and mentally healthy in adulthood, such as self-care and relaxation. They can pursue education or find work through our vocational and academic counseling programs. Students learn how to navigate the world through public transport, learning to drive, or simply walking with confidence.
As our students participate in life at STRiV, they become more confident in their skills and abilities. After they accomplish that, independence becomes second nature, allowing for natural and lasting growth.
As our students participate in life at STRiV, they become more confident in their skills and abilities. After they accomplish that, independence becomes second nature, allowing for natural and lasting growth.
Experience Daily Structure in Our Transitional Living Program
Schedules vary at STRiV depending on the needs of each student. Universally, each schedule contains structured time for students to receive support, coaching, and mentorship. Students in school or who have a job have the time to do so, and care is taken to ensure that there are exciting events to look forward to. There’s a careful balance in our scheduling to prevent burnout and provide time for ample socialization and self-exploration.
We don’t utilize curfews or restrictions on technology at STRiV, unless it’s to treat a process addiction. This helps our students embrace accountability, experience natural consequences, and learn to make healthy future choices.
We don’t utilize curfews or restrictions on technology at STRiV, unless it’s to treat a process addiction. This helps our students embrace accountability, experience natural consequences, and learn to make healthy future choices.
Support for Mental Health & Co-Occurring Conditions
STRiV Forward is equipped to provide support for mild to moderate mental health disorders and challenges, such as ADHD, self-sabotage, and low self-esteem. Our priority is to help our students stabilize so they can empower themselves to healthily overcome or manage chronic conditions.
STRiV Forward may resemble sober living homes in our therapeutic transitional living program, but we are not an addiction treatment center. We can, however, offer support for past substance use, facilitating lasting addiction recovery. However, we are not able to treat students with active substance use or drug addiction.
STRiV Forward may resemble sober living homes in our therapeutic transitional living program, but we are not an addiction treatment center. We can, however, offer support for past substance use, facilitating lasting addiction recovery. However, we are not able to treat students with active substance use or drug addiction.
Anxiety Disorders & Emotional Regulation Challenges
Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder are some of the most common disorders affecting young adults. Students may also struggle with emotional regulation and expressing themselves in healthy, productive ways.
Depression, Bipolar Disorder & Mood Instability
Mood disorders are also commonly diagnosed in young adults. Traumatic events, bullying, and life changes can exacerbate the development of these conditions. Bipolar disorder and mood instability issues are typically diagnosed during late adolescence, facilitating the need for psychoeducation in managing chronic conditions.
ADHD & Executive Functioning Challenges
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can sometimes go undiagnosed, leading to executive functioning challenges that distress and discourage young adults. Young adults with ADHD may struggle to focus, control impulses, or manage time wisely.
Personality Disorders
Though not as common as other disorders, personality disorders can be present in young adults. These disorders make it difficult for one to connect with others, leading to social isolation, self-destructive habits, and poor self-esteem.
Co-Occurring Disorders
It’s common for one mental health condition to have another that co-occurs alongside it. Anxiety and depression commonly co-occur along with ADHD and mild autism. However, there are co-occurring disorders that young adults in particular can face, such as eating disorders, self-harm, psychosis, and substance abuse.
Serious conditions that require inpatient care, such as active substance use, are not treated at STRiV. However, conditions that are moderate or in the past, such as past substance use or suicidal ideation, can be addressed on a case-by-case basis to ensure student safety.
Serious conditions that require inpatient care, such as active substance use, are not treated at STRiV. However, conditions that are moderate or in the past, such as past substance use or suicidal ideation, can be addressed on a case-by-case basis to ensure student safety.
Is a Transitional Living Program Right For Your Young Adult?
STRiV Forward is designed to help students who struggle with independence but are motivated to make lasting changes. We are best able to help students with mild to moderate mental health issues, including past (but not current) substance use. Some of the most common challenges faced by students at STRiV include executive functioning struggles, mental health issues such as ADHD or anxiety, or the need for failure-to-thrive support.
A transitional living program may be right for your loved one if they want to achieve independence but need specialized support and/or a safe place to practice their skills. Sometimes, a space away from family can be the fresh start needed to take independence seriously.
Each student is assessed to ensure eligibility and that they can safely live semi-independently in our apartments.
Each student is assessed to ensure eligibility and that they can safely live semi-independently in our apartments.
Helping Families Support Long-Term Growth
One of our goals at STRiV is to help families foster healthy communication and independence among their members. As such, families are closely involved in the care of their loved one while at STRiV. Part of this support is helping families form the healthy boundaries needed for successful independence and continuous growth.
Join the Community Where Young Adults Thrive
We are committed to providing a safe, healthy, and supportive environment for our students at STRiV. Part of our home-like approach to transitional living includes access to our supportive community full of peers and trained professionals.
Here, our students can be young adults who can try, fail, and try again. This builds resilience, encourages students to come out of their shells, and seek their place in the world as young adults. There’s a world waiting to be explored, and it begins by stepping into our encouraging community.
Here, our students can be young adults who can try, fail, and try again. This builds resilience, encourages students to come out of their shells, and seek their place in the world as young adults. There’s a world waiting to be explored, and it begins by stepping into our encouraging community.
FAQs
What Is a Transitional Living Program for Young Adults?
A transitional living program is a program where young adults learn and practice life skills in preparation for adult life. For example, they learn how to budget, cook meals, enroll in school, find a job, and more. The goal is to help young adults build a solid foundation they can use for successful independent living.
Transitional living programs are not the same as inpatient or residential treatment. These programs are best suited for people with severe conditions that require consistent medical oversight, such as active substance use disorders. Although there can be transitional living programs for those transitioning into sober living, young adult transitional programs are focused more on mastering independent life skills.
How Are Parents Involved in the Program?
Parents and families are included in our transitional living program in several ways. Firstly, families are kept up to date on the progress of their loved one through regular communications. Families may also utilize family therapy, if needed, along with other resources, such as psychoeducation. Our goal is to help families better understand their loved one, foster healthy boundaries, and promote healthy separation for lasting independence.
How Does STRiV Forward Support Mental Health and Well-Being?
STRiV Forward supports our students’ mental health and well-being by providing personalized treatment and guidance tailored to their unique needs. Students have access to coaching, mentors, training, psychoeducation, groups, and therapeutic modalities to bolster mental health and build resilience.
We also encourage our students to form friendships and connections with each other both at STRiV and out in the community, to combat isolation and promote social skills. This approach ensures that our students don’t slip through the cracks and receive the care they need to thrive.
What Is the Length of STRiV Forwards’ Transitional Living Program?
The length of stay for each student at STRiV will vary based on their individual needs. Typically, this is 12 months, but the average is between 10 and 14 months.