Through case studies, stories, activities, real life lessons and practical recommendations, this Guidebook offers insights and tools to bring youth engagement to life in organizations and communities.

Five steps to change the landscape include:

Step 1: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE OF YOUTH ENGAGEMENT
Step 2: PREPARING A STRONG FOUNDATION
Step 3: TAKING EFFECTIVE ACTION
Step 4: NURTURING RELATIONSHIPS
Step 5: MEASURING IMPACT

The Toolkit helps to promote human rights, nondiscrimination and peaceful conflict resolution within non-formal education programs for children, such as summer camps or after school activities.

The tool kit is intended for children aged 6-12 and camp leaders.

This curriculum unit was inspired by the Scarboro Missions Golden Rule Poster which features texts of the Golden Rule as found in 13 of the world’s religions. By way of these lessons, young people will be invited to reflect on the role which rules, values and moral principles play in their lives – at home, at school, in sports and in the local community. Often, young people feel that they live in a world where rules are thrust upon them, making it difficult for them to live their lives. In these lessons, the students will come to understand that they, too, create rules and guidelines for living to which they adhere on a daily basis.

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. We hope that it will prove useful in your work and that it will support our common efforts towards a safe, vibrant and inclusive Toronto.