Resources and Tools

Looking for the latest and greatest tools and resources to help develop your youth group and/or disperse into your community? You'll find them all here. Take a look through and use what you like!

Fact Sheets

Fact sheets are great if you are looking to do some advocacy in your community. Fact sheets often have great statistics on outcomes in the various youth serving systems that can start as a basis to a goal you are looking to acheive. Check out some of these fact sheets and let us know if you have one that we haven't seen yet!

New Factsheet: Evaluating Whether or Not to Trust Mental Health Information on the Internet

This factsheet was developed by RTC for Pathways to Positive Futures.

New Factsheet: What Young Adults with Mental Health Conditions Search for Online 

This factsheet was developed by RTC for Pathways to Positive Futures.

Opportunities

Looking for a new internship? A board to join? Want to learn how to build your skillsets in awesome ways? If you said yes to any of these, you'll be wise to take a look at this page frequently to see what new opportunities we have posted. We'll have a collection of different opportunities listed here: some that are specific to Youth MOVE National; others will be specific to something happening in the field.

Current Opportunities

There are no current opportunities at the moment.

Past Opportunities

Give SAMHSA Your Feedback on the Definition of Recovery!

Over the past year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration—as part of its Recovery Support Strategic Initiative—has worked with the behavioral health field to develop a working definition of recovery that captures the essential, common experiences of those recovering from mental and substance use disorders, along with 10 guiding principles that support recovery.

SAMHSA wants to know what you think about the working definition and guiding principles of recovery from mental and substance use disorders. The comment period closes at 12 midnight Eastern Time on Friday, August 26.

Youth Service America and UnitedHealthcare Offer Grants for Service-Learning Projects to Address Childhood Obesity - Deadline: October 17, 2011

Youth Service America and UnitedHealthcare have announced the fourth year of the UnitedHealth HEROES program, a service-learning health- literacy program that awards grants to help youth between the ages of 5 and 25 create and implement local, hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity.

The program invites young people in the United States to become "Health Heroes" by learning about childhood obesity, designing programs to address it, and implementing the programs in their communities.

Grants of $500 to $1,000 will be awarded to programs that demonstrate a clear understanding of the health risks associated with childhood obesity; propose creative solutions to fighting obesity in their schools and communities; and can be easily implemented, scaled, and measured. In addition, each grant engages participating youth in service-learning, a teaching and learning strategy that supports student academic achievement and helps students develop their workplace readiness skills. The grants encourage semester-long projects that launch on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January 16, 2012) and culminate on Global Youth Service Day (April 20-22, 2012).

Schools, service-learning coordinators, nonprofits, and students in the health professions located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia are eligible to apply.

Visit the YSA Web site for complete program guidelines, an eligibility quiz, and the application as well as "First Responders: Youth Addressing Childhood Obesity Through Service-Leaning," a step-by-step manual that helps youth, parents, teachers, and other volunteers deploy YSA service-learning models to fight childhood obesity in their communities.

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Youth Advocacy and Policy

Understanding policy and advocating for one’s cause is one of the best ways for youth to get involved. It provides youth with a way for their voice to be heard on important issues that may affect them or other youth around them. To help youth get more involved in policy and advocacy efforts, we have included some tools and resources for your use. Check out some of the great webinars, articles and guides we have for your use.

Youth Advocacy Webinar Series

This four part weinbar series was developed in partnership with Georgetown University's National TA Center for Children's Mental Health.

Download the webinar series now!

Youth Focus

Youth Focus is a section from the National Federation of Families newsletter that is dedicated to providing you with tools and resources that can help you grow your advocacy and policy skills. Each issue focuses in on a differnet topic and are written by Eric Lulow, the Youth Involvement Associate.. We have made three of the issues available for you to either view on our website or download to your computer.

Download the Youth Focus series now!

Youth Voice in Policy

Youth Voice in Policy is a guide developed by the National Federation and Pathways RTC. In this guide you will learn the basic skills you need to advocate for the issues you feel are important. This guide was made specifically for youth who have received mental health services and who have experienced multiple child-serving systems. Sharing that experience is a key part of effective advocacy. But before you can go and tell the world what’s what, you need to understand how policy fits together.

Click here to download a copy of the guide.