Building and Effective After School Youth Program
The David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality has a newsletter and this one, about engaging youth in after school programs, is very informative. Of interest is the relation between Maslow’s...
View ArticleDiversity Activities for Youth and Adults
Here is a neat and short list of activities you can do to help youth and staff groups learn to better understand and appreciate the subtleties of diversity. Each activity is described in terms of the...
View ArticleTeen Mental Health and Brain Injury
The Canadian-based Teen Health Org website has some great resources about adolescent brain development, teens and mental health issues, brain injury prevention and more. Short videos, as well as...
View ArticleStepping Stones: A Resource on Youth Development
A message and significant resource from the Ontario Minister of Children and Youth Services, The Honourable Eric Hoskins. June 13, 2012 Stepping Stones: A Resource on Youth Development Dear...
View ArticleSurrey Child and Youth Friendly Strategy
The City of Surrey, BC, has created a comprehensive Child and Youth Friendly Strategy. For townships, towns, cities, municipalities, corporations, counties or individual agencies that have not yet...
View ArticleTeen Dating Violence Awareness
Here is an interesting newsletter article from Health Sciences North about Teen Dating Violence Awareness. It speaks to different types of dating violence that teens experience, how to introduce the...
View ArticleSurviving the Teenage Brain
CBC TV has just re-run its Nature of Things show with David Suzuki on Surviving the Teenage Brain. It is a great show which helps explain some of why young people do, act, and say things the way they...
View ArticleNew Publications
The Laidlaw Foundation has just released two new publications. Youth-led Community Organizing – Values Driven Work Youth-led Community Organizing – Strategies and Tools The documents are the results of...
View ArticleAdolescent Growth and Development
Here is a quick summary from Virginia State University about adolescent growth and development. It covers topics such as: what are physical, cognitive and psychosocial developments? how do they affect...
View ArticleEmotional Intelligence Activities for Youth Ages 13-18
There are some interesting resources from the USA regarding youth from families who are deployed in the Forces. The following excerpt provides a list of exercises to initiate conversations about how...
View ArticleStepping Up – Ministry of Children and Youth Services
Ontario releasing a strategic framework to help Ontario’s youth succeed I am very pleased to announce that the Government of Ontario has released Stepping Up – A Strategic Framework to Help Ontario’s...
View ArticleNew Resources
The Ministry of Children and Family Development in British Columbia has recently released a new Youth Engagement Toolkit. The Toolkit, presented in an easy-to-understand and use format, is made up of...
View ArticleCookbooks for Youth
Free cookbooks for young people! Two cookbooks have been released focusing on the health needs of young people as part of a project called Yhunger. The Yhunger program, funded and supported by New...
View ArticleGreat Videos on Asset Development
Here are two great videos, each less than 3 minutes long, which talk about techniques to support asset development in young people. The first one found here includes simple ways adults can build...
View ArticleYouth Suicide Prevention Toolkit
Here is a new resource from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. It has great general information, helpful hints for youth workers and parents, and access to community-based training...
View ArticleCanadian Youth Sport Report
84% of Canadian youth in the 3-17 age range participate in sports of some kind and 60% do it on an organized basis according to the Canadian Youth Sports Report released in June 2014. Learn: What the...
View ArticleWhitby Wins Award of Excellence for Youth Strategy
Congratulations are in order! The Town of Whitby has been awarded the APEX 2014 Award of Excellence in the One-of-a-Kind Government Publications category for its 2013-2018 Recreation and Leisure...
View ArticlePlaying Together – New Citizens, Sports and Belonging
Play Together for Inclusion: A new study by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship sheds light on the important role sports can play in effective integration if structural barriers to new citizens’...
View ArticleEvent Planning
The Grassroots Organizing and Leadership (GOAL) Youth Capacity Building Workshop Series was developed in 2007 by youth-led organizations, funders and other partners to provide access to learning...
View ArticleYouth do have a voice
Every now and then you come across some words of wisdom from someone who ‘gets’ working with youth. It’s our pleasure to share a selection of such, which was included in the Sooke News Mirror (Sooke...
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