Youth Organizations

Youth MOVE PA contracts with the PA Care Partnership to provide Technical Assistance and Training for the PA Care Partnership.

Youth MOVE PA

Website: Youth MOVE PA

Facebook: Youth MOVE PA Facebook

Youth MOVE PA Mission: As young adults, we will represent, empower, and encourage all of our peers and their allies to unite in educating and providing supports through advocacy to revolutionize the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

State and Local Youth Organizations

Minding Your Mind 

Website: mindingyourmind.org

Minding Your Mind’s primary objective is to provide mental health education to adolescents, teens and young adults, their parents, teachers, and school administrators. Their goal is to reduce the stigma and destructive behaviors often associated with mental health issues.

My L.I.F.E. (Magellan Youth Leaders Inspiring Future Development):  

Website: www.magellanofpa.com/for-members/community/my-life/:  Magellan is dedicated to helping to improve the lives of youth in Pennsylvania.

Facebook: www.Facebook.com/MYLIFEyouth

Pa Youth Congress

Website: payouthcongress.org

PYC is proud to be the nation’s first youth-led statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization. We operate for the purpose of effective youth advocacy, as an organization willing to work with our partners and allies from all across Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Youth Leadership Network

Website: pyln.org

The PYLN is a statewide network of young people that come together to create positive change in their local communities and beyond.

Transition Age Advisory Group, Value Behavioral Health (TAAG )

TAAG Brochure

“TAAG” OR Transition Age Advisory Group and Beacon are committed to promoting and enhancing effective communication between Beacon Health Options HealthChoices youth and young adults, their families, and other stakeholders.

Youth Advisory Board (Child Welfare Resource Center Statewide)

Website: www.payab.pitt.edu

The Pennsylvania Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is comprised of current and former substitute care youth ages 16-21. Youth leaders on the YAB educate, advocate, and form partnerships to create positive change in the substitute care system. 

Youth MOVE Philadelphia

Youth MOVE Philly is a local chapter of Youth MOVE National (Motivating Others through Voices of Experience). Youth MOVE Philly is devoted 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.

Website: psoc.dbhids.org/for-youth

PA Youth Advocacy Network

Website: https://www.payouthadvocacy.org/

The PA Youth Advocacy Network seeks to provide skills-building and advocacy opportunities for teens who have an interest in mental health. Youth advocates, connected as a powerful network for change across the Commonwealth

Youth Era 

Website: https://www.youthera.org/

Youth Era works to empower young people and create breakthroughs with the dedicated systems that serve them. 

National Organizations

Youth MOVE National

 

Website: www.youthmovenational.org

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.