Johanna Bergen

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McKinsey on Healthcare · Strong minds, strong futures: Weaving together basic needs and behavioral health · 24 Nov 2020 podcast

I'm Johanna Bergen and I lead the Youth MOVE national team.

MOVE stands for Motivating Others Through Voices of Experience.

And that's what we do.

We're a youth-run program, chapter-based organization that looks to harness the voices of young people who have lived experience in our country's child and youth serving systems.

We center our work in mental health and also work in child welfare, juvenile justice, and the education system.

And our goal is to uplift the power of young people's lived experience in creating systems change, particularly in creating systems that work better for our young people.

Yeah, I love that both Victor and Andrew brought up access and so quickly in their discussions.

We live in a world where mental health and substance misuse challenges carry still quite a bit of stigma and discrimination.

And those are the invisible barriers

for accessing care on top of some that we just spoke about in terms of being able to access telehealth or being able to know how to navigate the system or identify those services.

I think we hear from young people in my own experience as well, the ideal would be just as you said, Victor, to bring the services to where we already are.

So instead of accessing behavioral health care being this journey to a foreign land where you've never been before, rather making it a system that supports us in the community, I think that would support what we're hearing from you.

I wanted to jump in here about peer support and particularly about the emerging youth peer support workforce.

For me to be a part of supporting the development, our contribution to a new service or support within the system, it's been this beautiful connectivity of the work that we do as an organization to include youth voice in systems change and our own lived experiences.

I was living a journey that included multiple diagnoses and I could have let anxiety and depression and mania become my life.

And instead, I was afforded a path that allowed it to fuel my passion.

And now I get to do this work every day.

And we're seeing so many exciting things happen when young people are able to see that they could have a future in a helping field.

And oftentimes, young people, particularly in our public systems, aren't given a pathway to show people like them doing work in the mental health field.

And so the youth peer workforce is really just creating this entirely new pathway.

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