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Youth Mental Health

The Youth of Utah Advocacy Coalition

Who We Are

The Youth of Utah Advocacy Coalition is a youth-led organization (14 to 26 years old) that seeks to empower young adults who are mentally ill, experiencing homelessness, and/or who have been involved in state systems, such as foster care or juvenile justice. YUTAC supports them (paid opportunities available, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to learn more) in pursuing their own passions regarding grassroots activism, education, and advocacy. 

The goal of YUTAC is to encourage youth advocates to have a leading role in shaping policy, ending stigma, and creating sustainable change in Utah communities. 

Our Values

  • YUTAC combats stigma surrounding mental illness, homelessness, substance use, harm reduction, and system involvement in Utah.
  • We create a safe, empowering community where youth and young adults can use their voices and share lived experiences.
  • Young people deserve a meaningful voice in their healthcare, including foster care, mental health and the juvenile justice system.
  • Disabled youth and young adults are entitled to autonomy, respect, dignity, and full constitutional rights.
  • YUTAC centers the goals, strengths, and desires of young adults in every aspect of their treatment and wraparound care.
  • Through leadership training, organizing, creative arts, events and policy work we support young adults in advocating for themselves and others.
  • We help youth with lived experience build essential life skills for long-term success. YUTAC supports evidence-based, trauma-informed care and practices.
  • We center the voices of communities historically erased by systems and stand in solidarity with human rights, abolitionist and social justice movements.

 

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Resources & More Information

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