Useful Materials for Young Decision Makers
Check out our new poster! We encourage organizations and youth centres across the country to put a couple of these up. Everyone has a role in helping youth get more involved in decision-making!
This 4 pager is our response to a lot of organizations across Canada wondering how can the Young Decision Makers (YDM) Network work with them.
This report is a summary of the events that happened at our first meeting in November of 2007
This report was used as a follow up to some of the events that occured after our first meeting in November.
This report explains some of our outcomes from our third Young Decision Makers meeting. It was held at the Horseshoe Resort in Barrie, Ontario from November 20 to 23, 2008.
If you've never heard of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, this guide will teach you more about your rights and what they mean in the context of your everyday life.
This is the survey that is being used by the YDM project as part of a national rights monitoring initiative. We're surveying young people about their rights in anticipation for Canada's major report to the UN next year. Results from this survey will be part of our own report to the UN in January 2009!
The Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement recently submitted a report to the UN High Commission on Human Rights talking about child rights and the UNCRC in Canada. Click here to read the report and see what we had to say.
This discussion guide is filled with questions for you to conduct your own discussion/focus group with young people in your community. Do decision makers listen to your opinion, how can you make sure that they do?
Our current project with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) began in July of 2008 when members of the Young Decision Makers project attended a conference hosted by the CCSA. Here's a report of the events at the conference.
Unicef's website commemorating the eighteenth birthday of the UNCRC has a lot of cool information surrounding your rights including a version of the convention in "child-friendly" language.
One of the current projects of the YDM involves looking at a device that using high pitched sounds to deter young people from loitering in certain areas. Here's a website that contains information about the device.
The YDM project is currently leading a national child rights monitoring initiative. You can visit our project page for more information. The Get Ready for Geneva project is a project that is very similar to the one that we're currently conducting. It's a website with great resources to help you learn about your rights and how they're enforced
In 2007, PHAC sponsored youth to attend two international conferences where adult and youth ideally work together on important issues such as child rights Does this happen? If not, how can we and PHAC work together to ensure better experiences, click on the link to find out.
This is our official brochure. It summarizes a lot of our work from early 2006 to 2009 and eight great reasons to join the Young Decision Makers. We recommend all members to have some YDM Brochures at their school or youth centre.