Engaging Youth
September 2007
Community Service-Learning: Reflections from the Foundation
The Foundation reflects on Community Service-Learning, an educational approach integrating community service with intentional learning activities.
December 2009
Reflecting on the Youthscape Initiative: Learnings and Recommendations from Calgary
Shares highlights and develops recommendations based on experiences from YouthScape's Calgary site.
February 2010
Developmental Evaluation Report: A trek through the YouthScape landscape
Offers insights about the youth engagement initiative, YouthScape, through the eyes of its Lead Developmental Evaluator.
January 2002
Creating Change Youth Style: A Youth Action Strategy Exploration Report for the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
A 2002 recommendation of a course of action for the Foundation in its emerging youth engagement landscape.
October 29, 2010
Creative Youth Empowerment: Engaging Our Youth Today to Unlock Tomorrow’s Leaders
Describes the start-up of Youth Fusion, a project that has graduate students leading programs for high school students at underperforming schools, and provides lessons learned during its growth. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
November 18, 2010
Engaging Youth Within Our Communities
This guide is intended for community and organizational actors who would sincerely like to integrate young people ages 12 to 25 within their communities by allowing them to actively participate in decisions affecting them and allowing play a more influential role.
May 2009
Making the Path as We Walk It: Changing Context and Strategy on Green Street
Examines how a national Canadian environmental education program (Green Street) evolved in unpredictable ways and about the particular twist in the road that led program stakeholders to focus on scaling up in different ways than originally imagined.
July 2010
YouthScape Guidebook: Changing the Landscape
Through case studies, stories, activities, and practical recommendations, this guidebook offers insights and tools to bring youth engagement to life.
September 2010
YouthScape: A Funder's Perspective
Based on a funder's experience, this paper discusses the design, implementation and evaluation of a complex, emerging initiative (YouthScape). It explores the diversity of strategies – healing, empowering, engaging, and organizing – that community organizations can adopt for involving marginalized young people in community development activities.
March 2010
Letter from ArtsSmarts: A Word from the Executive Director
ArtsSmarts is a learning strategy for student success in the 21st century.