Publications & 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!
- Conducting Listening Sessions with Youth and Young Adults to Better Understand the Issues that Help and Harm Them
- Are You in a Healthy Relationship with Social Media
- Beyond the Surface: Inclusive Event Planning Centering 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Disabled Youth Communities
- Engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth in Advocacy
- Toolkit for Implementing Authentic Youth Engagement Strategies Within State Advisory Groups
- What is Strategic Sharing?
- Affirming Facilitation Practices in Youth Spaces
- #Things2Consider: Youth in Governance
- #Things2Consider: Stipends Youth & Young Adults
- Cosas Para Considerar: Estipendios para jóvenes y jóvenes adultos
- #Things2Consider: Community Youth Resource Mapping
- Cosas Para Considerar: Mapeo de Recursos Comunitarios de Los Jovenes
- #Things2Consider: Creating a Youth Advisory Board
- #Things2Consider: Strategic Sharing
- Cosas Para Considerar: Compartir Estratégicamente
- A Youth Leadership Toolbox
- #Things2Consider: Roles for Youth Advocates
- A Guide to Youth Recruitment
- Expanding Youth Voice in System of Care: Recommendations for Youth & Families
- Youth Driven Organizational Purpose Areas
- Engaging Youth with Technology
- Investing in Youth Engagement and Advocacy: School-Based Partnerships with Youth MOVE
- Language in the Youth MOVEment: A Compilation of Terms
- Explaining the Ticket to Work Program
- Are You in a Healthy Relationship with Social Media
- Conducting Listening Sessions with Youth and Young Adults to Better Understand the Issues that Help and Harm Them
- Economic Independence for Youth & Young Adults
- Support of Youth & Young Adults During the Transition Years
- A Youth Leadership Toolbox
- How to Help Yourself Transition to Adulthood
- Youth Advocate to Advocate for Youth: The Next Transition
- Youth Advocate to Advocate for Youth: The Next Transition – A Worksheet
- Youth Advocate to Advocate for Youth: The Next Transition – An Overview of the Seven Stages
- De defensor juvenil a defensor de la juventud: la siguiente transición
- Connecting Youth and Young Adults to the Affordable Care Act: A Guide for Young Adults to Understand the Affordable Care Act
- Language in the Youth MOVEment: A Compilation of Terms
- Reimagining Youth Peer Support in Crisis Response Services: A Youth-Driven, Trauma-Conscious, Healing-Centered Implementation Guide
- A Brief History of Youth Peer Support
- Adapting Youth Peer Support in a Pandemic
- Helping a Peer Develop Their Natural Supports
- Recruiting & Retaining Youth Peer Support Specialists Implementation Guide
- Youth Peer-to-Peer Support: A Review of the Literature
- Conducting Listening Sessions with Youth and Young Adults to Better Understand the Issues that Help and Harm Them
- Intergenerational Collaboration and Dialogue
- Conducting Listening Sessions with Youth and Young Adults to Better Understand the Issues that Help and Harm Them
- Intergenerational Collaboration and Dialogue
- Establishing & Sustaining Advisory Groups with Young Adults
- Investing Early: Strengthening State Policies to Support Infant and Toddler Mental Health
- Toolkit for Implementing Authentic Youth Engagement Strategies Within State Advisory Groups
- Affirming Facilitation Practices in Youth Spaces
- Shifting from Pathologizing to Person-First Language
- The Role & Value of Medication
- The Role of Youth-Run Organizations in Improving Services and Systems for Youth and Young Adults: A Commentary on the State of the Science
- Expanding Youth Voice in System of Care: Recommendations for Evaluators
- Expanding Youth Voice in System of Care: Recommendations for Project Providers
- The Foundations of Youth Engagement and Parent Centers
- Improving Life Trajectories for Young Adults with Mental Health Challenges
- #Things2Consider: Working with Faith Communities
- Conducting Listening Sessions with Youth and Young Adults to Better Understand the Issues that Help and Harm Them
- #Things2Consider: Measuring Success
- #Things2Consider: Midiendo el éxito
- #Things2Consider: Strategic Planning
- Rocking Your Youth MOVEment: A Guide to Rockstar Sustainability
- #Things2Consider: Why and How to Develop Logic Models
- Psychiatric Advanced Directives: Youth & Young Adults Implementation Guide
- Are You in a Healthy Relationship with Social Media
- The Role & Value of Medication
- Exploring Eating Disorders Among Youth & Young Adults
- Economic Independence for Youth & Young Adults
- Actionable Self Care: Create Your Own Self Care Kit – Part One of Two: What to Consider When Creating Your Kit
- Actionable Self Care: Create Your Own Self Care Kit – Part Two of Two: Considerations and Resources for Building Your Kit
- A Perspective Into School Refusal Anxiety
- A Guide for Youth Understanding Trauma
- Guía Para Jóvenes Comprensión del Trauma
From The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCTSN)
- Gender Affirming Care is Trauma-Informed Care
- Identifying the Intersection of Trauma and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Key Considerations
- Identifying the Intersection of Trauma and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Screener
- The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After a Parent or Caregiver Dies
- The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After the Death of a Sibling from Substance Use or Overdose
- The Power of Parenting: Helping Your Child After A Family Homicide Loss
Youth MOVE Peer Center Resources
The Youth MOVE National Peer Center is a program of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under grant 1H79SM082658-01 and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The YMN Peer Center sunset at the end of March 2026.
For 6 years, Youth MOVE National’s Peer Center supported peer and community-run organizations, provider organizations, the mental health service system, and anyone nationally with successfully creating and implementing recovery-oriented youth programming. Over the years, this has included numerous trainings, leadership academies, peer support workforce development, technical assistance, learning communities, product development from tip sheets to issue briefs to implementation guides, coaching, and more.
Check out these resources created by the Youth MOVE Peer Center!
Are You in a Healthy Relationship with Social Media?
Welcome to Are You in a Healthy Relationship with Social Media?, a virtual learning experience designed for anyone 29 and under who uses social media in any part of their life. This interactive space is grounded in lived experience, digital community culture, trauma consciousness, and the understanding that social media is not universally “good” or “bad”, just like any other relationship.
Own Your Story & Be a Resource for Change:
Youth MOVE National’s Youth Peer Support 101 course
This course is meant to guide you through an experience that shows that lived experience can be used in a variety of meaningful ways, including creating career pathways! This two-part learning series is designed to show you that your story is powerful and can be used to make a change in the world!
Trauma-Informed Youth Peer Support
Developed By Pacific Southwest MHTTC & YMN Peer Center
This training module will assist participants in understanding the foundations of trauma-informed care, including its principles and philosophy, demonstrate why this approach to care is important, and present strategies for incorporating trauma-informed practices throughout youth peer support services. It is critical for peer providers to understand how trauma may impact the youth and young adults they serve. This training will provide concrete examples of what trauma-informed practice looks like in action and how to apply this philosophy within peer relationships. The online course was collaboratively developed and produced by the Pacific Southwest MHTTC and Youth MOVE National.
- Are You in a Healthy Relationship with Social Media?
- Intergenerational Collaboration and Dialogue
- Establishing & Sustaining Advisory Groups with Young Adults
- Beyond the Surface: Inclusive Event Planning
- Exploring Eating Disorders Among Youth & Young Adults
- A Perspective Into School Refusal Anxiety
- Affirming Facilitation Practices in Youth Spaces
- Shifting from Pathologizing to Person-First Language
- Helping A Peer Develop Their Natural Supports
- History of Youth Peer Support
- Support of Youth & Young Adults During the Transition Years
- Economic Independence for Youth & Young Adults
- Adapting Youth Engagement & Youth Peer Support During a Pandemic
- Actionable Self Care: What to Consider When Creating Your Kit
- Actionable Self Care: Considerations and Resources for Building Your Kit
- Mental Health Tip Sheet for Educators
- Strategic Sharing
- The Role & Value of Medication
- How to Help Yourself Transition to Adulthood
- Explaining the Ticket to Work Program
- Nonbinary Youth in Binary Systems: Considerations for Mental Health Services – Part One
- Nonbinary Youth in Binary Systems: Considerations for Mental Health Services – Part Two
- Reimagining Youth Peer Support in Crisis Response Services: A Youth-Driven, Trauma-Conscious, Healing-Centered Implementation Guide
- Conducting Listening Sessions with Youth and Young Adults to Better Understand the Issues that Help and Harm Them: An Implementation Guide
- Family Engagement & Support in Youth Mental Health Care: Implementation Guide
- Recruiting & Retaining Youth Peer Support Specialists: Implementation Guide
- Engaging Black LGBTQIA+ Youth in Advocacy: Implementation Guide
- Psychiatric Advanced Directives: Implementation Guide
- Supporting Youth in Storytelling: Strategic Sharing Foundations –
Hosted by: The Youth MOVE Peer Center
Learn how storytelling can be a catalyst for growth, self-advocacy, and positive systems change for youth and young adults with lived experience. In this session, we will explore the practice of strategic sharing, a means to express stories of lived experience effectively and intentionally, with an emphasis on safety and self-care.
- Supporting Youth in Storytelling: Strategic Sharing Foundations –
- Economic Independence for Youth & Young Adults –
Hosted by: The Youth MOVE Peer Center
Navigating the world of money and finances can feel overwhelming and confusing! The truth is managing money can be complex, but it doesn’t have to be impossible to understand things like bank accounts or credit reports.Our Economic Independence for Youth & Young Adults training event aims to empower youth and young adults, especially those with system involvement, by equipping them with the essential tools and resources to prepare for financial independence!
- Economic Independence for Youth & Young Adults –
- Psych Advance Directives for Youth and Young Adults Webinar –
Hosted by: The Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery and Youth MOVE Peer CenterA Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) is a legal document that details preferences for future mental health treatment, services, and supports. This webinar will present the core elements of a PAD, and the role and benefits of Peer Specialists facilitating and supporting their development. Learn why these documents are important for young people and how a PAD can support one’s recovery and interactions with the mental health system. Having a PAD can have positive impacts on one’s mental health and the types of crisis services received. PAD’s can be a helpful tool to ensure that your wishes are followed no matter what stage of life you are in- but particularly for a young person this is a pathway for self-direction and self-advocacy for one’s treatment options. This presentation was led on May 17, 2023 by peer specialists of whom are subject matter experts in peer facilitated PAD’s and youth peer support.
- Psych Advance Directives for Youth and Young Adults Webinar –