Youth Move National: Mental Health Support Tools

Youth MOVE (Motivating Others through Voices of Experience) is a national youth-driven, chapter membership organization focused on improving systems and services that support positive growth and development. This includes training and professional development for mental health workers, with a focus on strengthening youth voice, peer support, and leadership in systems of care. Other tools and resources are designed specifically for young people, to use themselves or in their role as a peer supporter or advocate.

Resource Links

• Helping a Peer Develop Their Natural Supports

• Shifting from Pathologizing to Person-First Language

• What is Strategic Sharing

• Actionable Self-Care: Create Your Own Self-Care Kit Part 2 (Part 1 provides an introduction)

• How to Help Yourself Transition to Adulthood

• Youth Community Resource Mapping

• A Guide to Youth Trauma

• Non-Binary Youth in Binary Systems and Non-Binary Youth in Mental Health Systems and Best Practices to Support Them

• Online Peer Support Training Courses

• Main YouthMove website and YouthMove Peer Center

Sources

YouthMove National in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Georgetown University