Youth Engagement

The Taking Action Project - Art and Aboriginal Youth Leadership for HIV Prevention has published a manual for leaders.

In this manual you will find information about making Taking Action! happen in your community, including:

Focused on the youth population of Toronto, this guide is an introduction to effective youth engagement programming as a strategy for healthy and safe youth development. It identifies some of the key elements and common challenges, as well as offering possible solutions and strategies.

In this document is an abundance of books, manuals and programs designed to assist parents and professionals in their efforts to teach children how to grow up healthy in an unhealthy world, and how to promote healthy and equal relationships in a world where inequality is deeply entrenched in our everyday lives.

 A report documenting the power of effective girls' and young women's programs in helping girls positively change their lives and communities.

The youth engagement and voice webisite holds many great resources.

The Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement (CEYE) brings together the expertise of youth, youth service providers, academic researchers and policy makers to identify, build and implement models of effective practice for
meaningfully engaging youth and to document the results.

Developped by Jo-Anne Lee, Dept.of Women’s Studies, University of Victoria, Photovoice is a research method that you will use to document your lives. The camera will be your tool to capture images that represent meaningful messages that you would like to convey.

The photovoice activity gets participants to think about:

Facilitator guide meant to provide tools for communities and organizations in order to address violence prevention among youth, and especially girls.

antidote is an award-winning grassroots network and community-based organization of over 150 multiracial girls and women in Victoria, British Columbia.

MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media and digital literacy programs by producing education and awareness programs and resources, working in partnership with Canadian and international organizations, and speaking to audiences across Canada and around the world.

MNet focuses its efforts on equipping adults with information and tools to help young people understand how the media work, how the media may affect their lifestyle choices and the extent to which they, as consumers and citizens, are being well informed.