Governance
- CCYP Empowerment and participation plan – pages 61 and 62 group agreement
Diversity, inclusion and communication
- PilotLight’s Inclusion form checklist – completed by participants to understand the supports they need to engage.
- Designing for Diversity – Victorian Department of Health resources to embed diversity considerations in all aspects of policy and service design.
- Centre for Inclusive Design’s Checklist for inclusive events – checklist to help make meetings and events more inclusive.
- Centre for Inclusive Design’s Easy English versus plain English guide – includes guidance on why and when you use Easy English and plain English.
Co-design
Readiness Assessment Checklist - Young Voices
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- Human-centred Design Playbook – guide for Victorian public servants who are designing, procuring or managing human-centred design projects.
- SNAICC - National Voice for our Children – resources to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child participation.
- Scottish Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services’ Co-production project planner – suite of tools to help co-design projects run effectively.
- Toilet Talk - Lab4Living – example of co-design with children.
- Beyond sticky notes – co-design information and poster downloads.
Safe and active participation
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Koori Youth Council's Wayipunga (supporting young people) - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth participation framework.
- CCYP tip sheets on cultural safety for Aboriginal children, safety of children with a disability and safety of children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- The CCYP Empowerment and participation guide – contains a variety of activities and guidance to help you plan and run your participation:
- Participation activities – warm up games by age, ‘V is for victory’ assessment and planning tool (pages 58 to 61, Empowerment and participation guide)
- Safety shield activities – give participants an opportunity to learn about and inform the ways they will be kept safe (pages 53 to 55, Empowerment and participation guide)
- Identifying safe spaces tool – get feedback on how physically and emotionally safe participants feel in the environment (pages 51 to 52, Empowerment and participation guide)
- Tailoring guide for participation of children and young people of different ages – create physically and emotionally safe and inclusive spaces (pages 62 to 73, Empowerment and participation guide).
- Yerp online toolkit – articles, videos and practice examples to support youth participation.
- Code of ethical practice – for the Victorian youth sector.
Training, development and networks
- Berry Street, Y-Change from Engage to Exchange – youth engagement training.
- YACVic training and support – for young people and workers who support young people.
- CREATE Foundation – Speak Up – empowerment program for young people.
- Melbourne Process Work Centre – trauma-informed facilitation training workshop.
- Youth Participation Practice Network – for Victorian professionals committed to empowering young people.
Trauma-informed practice
- Mental Health Australia – information on trauma-informed practice.
- Trauma Informed Oregon – numerous resources and research.
- Children and young people with trauma – information on understanding the impacts of trauma (page 11, CCYP Empowerment and participation guide).
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