
TA Leads

Victoria Eckert, MSSA, LMSW, is the Associate Director at Youth MOVE National and serves as a youth engagement subject matter expert and a technical assistance (TA) lead on the NTTAC team. Victoria brings over 18 years of experience advancing systems change, youth engagement, and behavioral health through direct practice, program leadership, and national training and technical assistance, including serving as a national subject matter expert with NTTAC and other federally funded technical assistance centers, including the only youth-run national TA center at Youth MOVE National. Her expertise includes systems of care; youth and family voice and leadership; peer support; suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention; early identification and screening; behavioral health workforce development; mental health curricula development and facilitation; and cross-system collaboration, drawing on both professional experience and family lived experience navigating mental health systems. Through her leadership at Youth MOVE National and previous work and roles in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)-funded System of Care initiatives, Victoria provides training, consultation, and technical assistance that strengthen youth-serving systems, build workforce capacity, and support sustainable systems transformation. Victoria’s CMHI grant experience includes serving as Youth Engagement Specialist for the SAMHSA-funded Chautauqua Tapestry, where she advanced youth voice, family engagement, youth leadership, and cross-system collaboration across 18 school districts countywide. She later served as Project Director for the Chautauqua Tapestry Expansion Initiative, overseeing staff, grant implementation, budgets, evaluation, CQI, reporting, and technical assistance across county and community partners. Her broader System of Care work also included co-coordinating and later leading the first and only suicide prevention coalition in Chautauqua County, where she developed and led countywide suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention initiatives, secured grant funding, coordinated community partners and volunteers, implementation workforce development and training programs, led public awareness and fundraising efforts, and established a sustainability fund that supported the coalition’s evolution into an independent nonprofit organization today. Her current national TA role includes supporting federally funded grantees and serving as a subject matter expert with NTTAC.


Email: NTTAC@uconn.edu