Youth Create Wholeness

Resources

This is a list of resources for youth interested in getting involved in disability work. VOCAL is not partnered with and does not endorse the links listed here - these are provided solely for your perusal. Contact A'ishah Hils at angelofpeace@gmail.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions for resources to add.

You can also check out VOCAL's awesome Resources section for more resources!

National Youth Leadership Network is a national cross-disability organization run for youth with disabilities, by youth with disabilities. NYLN works to empower youth to set and reach their own goals, and has members from ages 14-28 with all different kinds of disabilities, including mental health.

YO! Youth Organizing Disabled and Proud is a network of youth organizers with disabilities across California. They do a lot of awesome work and have great resources for youth organizers and youth with disabilities everywhere.

Kids As Self Advocates is a national organization for youth with disabilities and chronic health conditions that works to strengthen self-advocacy and leadership among youth.

The FreeChild Project advocates, informs, and celebrates social change led by and with young people around the world, especially those who have been historically denied the right to participate.

Youth on Board helps strengthen relationships between young people and adults, and helps us work together and think differently about one another so we can change attitudes and change society.

School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) is working to lay the groundwork for a strong social justice movement by supporting the development of a new generation of organizers rooted in a systemic change analysis -especially people of color, young women, queer and transgender youth and low-income people.

FIERCE is an NYC-based organization building leadership and power among LGBTQ youth of color.

The Allied Media Conference is a national conference that brings together social justice, media making, and popular education. It is a powerful place for youth organizing and connecting youth with older people and allies!

If I Can't Dance is it Still My Revolution? is a site that talks about ableism (oppression of people with disabilities) in social justice movements.

FWD Feminists with Disabilities for a Way Forward is a blog about issues relating to women and feminists with disabilities, and how women with disabilities experience ableism.

The Disabled Young People's Collective works to build power and community among youth with disabilities in North Carolina.

Advocates for Youth is a site with lots of resources for youth and adult allies who want to help strengthen and center youth voices.

The Riot! is a national newsletter for youth with disabilities that has a lot of great information and resources! You can sign up to receive it at their website.

Queer Mental Health is an online mental health community for LGBTQ people.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.