Children and Youth

This Youth Engagement Sustainability (YES) toolkit aims to do the following:

• provide a starting point to explore challenges and best practices for implementing meaningful youth engagement

• include key learnings and critical insights of youth engagement offered by the Community of Practice members

• explore timely issues including navigating financial stress, the impacts of COVID-19 on youth engagement, and Inclusivity and Youth Empowerment

• highlight how a youth engagement approach interacts both horizontally within/across our communities and vertically as they relate to other systems of power

• offer practical examples and strategies of how to fill in the gap between theory and practice within an organization context

A report of the Youth Action Gathering (YAG)  held on October 3-4 2015 at UBC Robson Square, on Unceded Coast Salish territories in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was organized by the Canadian Council for Refugees in partnership with the Vancouver Foundation’s Fresh Voices Initiative and MOSAIC.

About SpeakUp!, a small grants fund by and for newcomer youth.

Canada has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, thereby promising to respect the basic rights of children. But the rights of children who are not Canadian citizens are not always respected. Find out how Canada can do better. 8 pages, January 2012.