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Where ALL Youth Thrive!
Motivating Others through Voices of Experience!
Mission:
Youth MOVE National connects, supports, and develops youth leadership in advocacy to create positive change. We practice authentic youth engagement through youth driven decision making by elevating youth voices of lived experience. We ensure that young people are heard and valued as leaders in the agencies, communities, and systems that impact their lives.
Vision:
Youth MOVE National envisions a future in which young people are valued as empowered leaders, advocates, and designers of communities that are built for all youth to thrive.
Commitment To Affirming Spaces Statement (CTASS):
Youth MOVE National is a youth focused, social justice nonprofit dedicated to ensuring a future in which young people are valued as empowered leaders, advocates, and designers of communities that are built for all youth to thrive. As we know, not all youth are presently thriving, especially those who are disproportionately affected by systemic oppression, and who are historically underrepresented and underserved. That is why we amplify youth voices who are Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC), Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual / Aromantic, and other youth who are non-exclusively heterosexual and/or cisgender (2SLGBTQIA+), disabled youth, and more. Focusing on having a critical, intersectional lens in all we do helps ensure better, more affirming, trauma informed environments, where all youth are welcomed and celebrated as they are, for who they are, and free of judgment and shame.
Youth MOVE Chapter Network
Directly Serving Youth in Their Communities for Over 10 Years!
Our Chapter Network is made up of local community and peer-run grassroots organizations and youth dedicated to making their environments safer, more affirming, and connecting peer to peer to strengthen relationships, engage more civically, and become leaders within the workforce. Many of our Chapters do direct service work, directly assisting and supporting their communities in tackling issues such as houselessness, food insecurity, mental health challenges, reform within the criminal legal system, child welfare system, and more. All of which have had an immeasurably positive impact on local communities, counties, regions, states, and youth across this nation.
Our Work is Youth Driven and
Centers Direct Lived Experiences
Youth MOVE National lives by its mission, vision, and values by being youth led and driven. Youth MOVE National’s Board of Directors is mandated to be 60% youth including the Board President. Our work is proudly for youth, by youth! We have been working towards a future in which young people are valued as empowered leaders, advocates, and designers of communities that are built for all youth to thrive, in various forms for over 20 years.
