The Project Connect model provides a framework that ensures continuity of care for youth transitioning from residential services to their home community.  This process begins with the JPO assessing the youth’s need for transitional services and determining that Project Connect meets the youth needs. Once the referral is made, a Transition Specialist is assigned to the youth who then initiates contact with the youth’s family, and the residential program to initiate the transition needs assessment process. The Transition Specialist will then visit the residential facility to meet with the youth and residential staff to build the youth's Community Action Team (CAT).  The CAT is a group of volunteers and mentors who will support the youth’s transition back to the community.

Once the youth is released from the residential program, an Individual Service Plan (ISP) is developed based on the youth’s individual needs.  The ISP will outline measurable goals and objectives and will be monitored weekly by a Life Coach and reviewed monthly by the CAT until the Individual Service Plan is completed.