YOUTH MOVE NATIONAL INC
626 Center Street, Decorah, IA 52101 www.youthmovenational.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Youth MOVE National is a youth-driven, chapter-based organization dedicated to improving services and systems that support positive growth and development by uniting the voices of individuals who have lived experience in various systems-including mental health, juvenile justice, education, and child welfare.

Youth Driven Chapter Network: Youth MOVE National supports an expansive network of chapters and members. The Youth MOVE Chapter Network has expanded to 38 states, 4 tribes, and the District of Columbia. Chapters are structured at the local and state level and provide Recreation and Peer Networking, Community Involvement and Advocacy, Social Marketing and Awareness Building, Youth Voice Development and Leadership, Personal Development and Empowerment, and Peer Services. Youth MOVE chapter members bring valuable lived experience and voice to the table from the following systems, settings, and disadvantaged populations: mental health, substance abuse and recovery, juvenile justice, special education, child welfare, residential treatment, runaway and homeless youth, Native youth, gang involvement, HIV/AIDS, vocational rehabilitation, physical disability, LGBTQIA2-S, and parenting youth. Youth advocates within the Youth MOVE Chapter Network are connected through local programming, statewide advisory and leadership structures, and national-level participation and representation. Chapters are the grassroots, community-built foundation that unites the voices and causes of young adults across the nation with Youth MOVE National. They provide safe spaces for local young adults to convene, share similar experiences, and strategize on systems change.

Youth Peer Support: The Youth MOVE Chapter Network and the behavioral health field at large has expressed a growing demand for the development and implementation of Youth Peer Support Services. In response, Youth MOVE National has convened a National Youth Peer Support Committee comprised of youth peer providers and peer supervisors to guide the work. Youth MOVE National has published a Literature Review of current Youth Peer Support work, a Medicaid Financing Guide for Youth Peer Support. Youth Peer Support Standards and an Organizational Development Guide are in process. Over the past year technical assistance for states implementing YPS has been provided onsite and virtually, via webinars and learning communities. Youth MOVE Chapters already provide valuable foundations for informal peer support via group meetings, projects, and campaigns, as well as supporting a positive peer environment for youth with lived systems experience. Youth MOVE National provides individualized coaching and consulting to communities and states working to implement Youth Peer Support, including strategic work around curriculum and training, hiring and recruiting, and supervision. Youth MOVE National is working strategically to identify where communities are at in readiness to implement successful and sustainable peer programs, both in informal settings and for formalized, billable service delivery.

Youth Leadership Development: Youth MOVE National empowers young adults nationwide to become leaders in their local systems and communities who strive for positive change. Youth MOVE National primarily accomplishes this through its Youth Advocate Leadership Academy, a three-day on-site training that leverages every young adult's lived experience as an asset to make change happen. This unique training is offered to young adults ages 16-25 who identify as having lived experience or involvement in the mental health, juvenile justice, education, and/or child welfare systems. Through blended experiential learning and peer-facilitated discussions and activities, participants focus on three key leadership concepts: the power of personal leadership, the journey of leadership, and leadership in action. In the past year, the Academy has gone to more states than ever before, reaching more young adults than in the past. The Youth Advocate Leadership Academy curriculum is approved and vetted by young adults nationwide with lived experience; it was co-created by youth advisors specifically for their peers and is co-facilitated by young adults with lived experience. Youth MOVE National's leadership development extends beyond its Youth Advocate Leadership Academy. Its board structure requires a 60 percent makeup of youth members; its Youth Best Practice Committee is comprised of young adults with lived experience who co-chair and take projects from concept to execution; and its pool of youth consultants are tapped to provide expertise on nationwide and local projects. Youth MOVE National's expansive chapter network also provides leadership trainings and opportunities to their youth members in local communities all across the U.S.

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