YouthScape

Focused on engaging excluded or marginalized youth to create stronger more resilient communities and longterm, sustainable systems change.

As the Intermediary for YouthScape, IICRD’s role is to:

• Support communities in creating sustainable change;
• Create a learning community and a body of knowledge to inform others on best practices to engage disengaged youth; and
• Leverage policy and practice at the level of local government, and across provincial and federal jurisdictions in Canada.

IICRD has been working with Community Partners and YouthScape's National Advisory to:
 

• Build community capacity, gather key information and create a learning community around youth engagement and systems change;
• Gather critical information using developmental evaluation and participatory action research tools;
• Develop strategic relationships (incl. Office of the Governor General);
• Explore several new areas of learning within the youth engagement and community development field, and
• Provide ongoing technical support to community partners.