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MOVEment:
Developed By:
Brianne Masselli, BS
Youth Development Consultant
Youth M.O.V.E National
Participants will gain:
 an understanding of a youth movement and how
it operates
 an understanding of what their role is as an
agent of change
 an understanding of Youth M.O.V.E. New
Hampshire
 an understanding of how to start creating
meaningful systems level change in their
communities by amplifying their own youth
voice and perspective
A youth MOVEment
starts with one of us
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…and will end with thousands
of YOUth!
Youth Guided means that young people have
the right to be empowered, educated, and
given a decision making role in the care of their
own lives as well as the policies and procedures
governing care for all youth in the community,
state and nation. This includes giving young
people a sustainable voice and then listening to
that voice.
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Youth guided organizations create safe
environments that enable young people to
gain self sustainability in accordance with the
cultures and beliefs with which they identify.
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A youth guided approach recognizes that
there is a continuum of power that should be
shared with young people based on their
understanding and maturity. Youth guided
organizations recognize that this process
should be fun and worthwhile.
To be their very best, our systems and
communities must encourage full youth
participation in design, implementation, and
evaluation of initiatives that effect their lives.
• Adult leaders and support staff should be
skilled in both genuinely engaging individual
youth and in advocating for and encouraging
youth to be full partners and leaders at
system level tables.
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Adult allies must understand the importance
of youth as equal partners and leaders in
organizational or systems change efforts
 Adult allies must understand the value of
youth voice and perspective in the design,
implementation, and evaluation of service
system and policy level work to effectively
promote youth-guided movements.
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An ongoing,
informal group
action that is
inspired by
passionately
shared ideas and
directed toward
positive change
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Ongoing: A movement is
not a once and done sort of
event.
 Informal: A movement is
not fully controlled by
anyone it is organic
 Group Action: At its heart,
a movement is a group of
people simultaneously acting
in similar fashion
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Passionately Shared
Idea: Members share a
common belief, discovery, or
piece of knowledge that
guides them to act in a similar
fashion
 Positive Change: people
become involved in
movements to make change.
Positive change could be big,
it could be more on a
community level or to
improve one’s own life
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The youth MOVEment began several years
ago
 Systems of Care grants provided fiscal
support for MOVEment development
 In 2004, the National Youth Development
Board was created
 Youth M.O.V.E National was funded
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Youth voice is all about hearing from young
people who have been involved in the childserving-systems in their states and therefore
have a unique perspective about how the
support, services, and/or interventions that
they received have helped or harmed their
ability to achieve improved life outcomes and
success.
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Youth voice is a way of strategically sharing
your own lived experiences to help create
positive change in your community and/or in
systems around your state that serve youth
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Community members
Organizations
Youth Serving Programs
Adult Allies
Individual Youth
Groups of Youth
Group of youth and young adults who:
 believe in the power of youth voice
 share their own experiences
 are passionate about creating change
 support efforts to combat stigma, and
advocate for youth nationally and locally
 started with 5 member and now has a board
of 18
Youth M.O.V.E.:
 works to unite the voices and causes of youth
around the country
 is developing training tools, guides and other
documents to assist communities with
involving youth at all levels of systems
transformation
 hopes to begin at least one Youth M.O.V.E
Chapter in every state
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Provide leadership
Represent youth voice
To act as consultants to for those who want
to learn more about youth voice
 To coach others in youth engagement
 To develop the movement
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Youth MOVE New Hampshire achieved Chapter status in July of 2013, since
then, we have developed:
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Training for youth to drive their own planning
Youth Move Orientation, Focus Groups
Youth Voice and Perspective to Systems Change Efforts
Group Forums for Individual Support and Connections (YM and RENEW
Facebook)
“Strategic Sharing” training
“What Helps What Harms”- YM National Social Marketing Initiative
Conference Planning and Co-Hosting: Youth Track Development
1:1 Youth Peer Support Model
Training and Recruitment of Youth for Action in Systems Change
Support and technical assistance to emerging youth leaders across
systems
Like Youth MOVE NH on Facebook
Contact us at youthmovenh@gmail.com
Participate in the upcoming “What Helps,
What Harms” focus groups being held across
the state
 June 27th, 2014 at the Carol Rines Center in
Manchester, NH from 9:30am-1pm
 TO BE ANNOUNCED at Plymouth State
University
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