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Publications
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Thanks to several graduate student volunteers
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will be available online in the spring of 2005!
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Newsletter
Vocal Point is a FREE publication for SCY members containing
current issues concerning children and youth, published
two or more times a year - a privilege of membership."
(Click here for information on
becoming a member.)
Play and Recreation
- (2) Making Space for Children: Rethinking and Re-creating
Children's Play Environments - $15.00
1999 Society for Children and Youth
This award-winning booklet reminds us of the importance of children's play and our role as adults in providing play opportunities. It will be particularly useful for those who are thinking of creating or improving a children's play environment. It discusses the child's right and need to play and the forces that influence their play opportunities. It covers how adults can effectively facilitate children's play and provides practical guidance on how to move from inspiration to action. (51 pages)
- (3) Youth Recreation: Make it Happen - $10.00
1996 Provincial Government Recreation & Sports Branch & SCY
Publication based on experiences emanating from a series of youth recreation forums held in various regions of British Columbia, co-sponsored by SCY. The booklet addresses the importance of recreation to youth and barriers to youth participation in recreation as well as listing 10 guiding principles around which to build successful "youth-friendly" recreation programs. (56 pages)
- (4) Youth Recreation: Making it Happen - $5.00 for one (or $15.00 for five)
1997 Society for Children and Youth
A step-by-step guide for community groups on how to run a youth forum. Information is segregated into sections, covering preparation, the day of the forum, and follow up activities. Examples of a forum agenda and of fundraising possibilities are included. (20 pages)
- (5) Your Child and Sports: A Parent's Guide - Free (One copy only)
1998 Society for Children and Youth
A brochure designed to assist parents in helping their children choose and prepare for involvement in sports and, mot importantly, to help keep abuse out of children's and youth's sport activities.
Child and Youth Friendly Communities
- (6) Child Friendly Housing - $10.00
1995 Society for Children and Youth
Providing housing appropriate for families with children is an important ingredient of a healthy community. This guide introduces the concept of child friendly housing and addresses specific needs of children in medium- to high-density housing. It will be of interest to municipalities and elected officials, planners and those involved in zoning rules, architects who design multi-family housing, developers and managers of housing, social planners and community programmers. (44 pages)
- (7) Smart User's Guide to Child Friendly Housing - $3.00
1997 Society for Children and Youth
A brochure to assist parents when looking for housing that is child-friendly, housing that allows children to grow and develop into healthy young adults. The guide specifically focuses on medium and high density housing, apartments and townhouses. The guide looks at the housing needs of children and youth from infants to teenagers.
- (8) Making Your Community More Child and Youth Friendly: Getting Started - $10.00
2000 Society for Children and Youth
A community self-assessment tool to help community groups address the question, "How child and youth friendly is my community?" Based on six guiding principles, the tool is broken into 17 different domains that affect the lives of young people. These include housing, close to home, parks and open spaces, schools, transportation, workplaces and the media. (22 pages)
- (9) Making Your Community More Child and Youth Friendly: Planning for Action - $10.00
2001 Society for Children and Youth
A companion booklet to the above "Getting Started," this is a step-by-step guide for the use of communities who wish to become active in improving the child and youth friendliness of their neighbourhood, community, or whole municipality. Work sheets are included to help community groups move from ideas to action. (60 pages)
Child Abuse Prevention
- (10) Put the Child First Resource Kit - $25.00 (reduced from $60.00)
1993 Society for Children and Youth
A comprehensive train-the-trainers child abuse prevention program for staff and volunteers who work with children and youth in recreation, education and leisure activities. The kit includes original material produced by the Canadian Council on Children and Youth in 1989 and a 65 page scripted training manual produced by SCY together with a 15-minute video. While parts of the resource kit are somewhat dated, the majority of the material is very useful and being used widely throughout Canada. (51 pages)
Youth Justice
- (11) Children as Witnesses: Thinking Beyond the Box - $8.00
2001 Society for Children and Youth
Results of a Round table held by the Society for Children and Youth of BC in partnership with the Justice Institute of BC. The Roundtable examines concerns about children, already traumatized by abuse, participating in a system designed for adults. (23 pages)
Children's Rights
- (12) NEW! - Canadian Judicial Consideration
of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
click
here for the pdf
April 2003, prepared by Robin M. Junger Law Corporation.
(104 pages)
- (13) NEW! - The Convention on the Rights of the Child
and Public Policy: Perspectives on the Rights of Children
with Disabilities in British Columbia
click
here for the pdf
2003 Society for Children and Youth
Through research and focus group discussion, SCY documented
key issues of children with disabilities and their families.
In addition, this report outlines how those responsible
for developing and implementing public policy, and those
who seek to influence policy, can use the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child as a tool to enhance the realization
of rights for children with disabilities. (124 pages)
- (14) NEW! - Beyond Article 23: Rights of Children with
Disabilities under the UN Convention
2004 Society for Children and Youth
This user friendly, plain language booklet is intended for
families, service providers, and individuals interested
in a primer on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
with a particular focus on children with disabilities. It
provides a brief introduction to the Convention and then
goes through the 41 articles in the first part of the Convention,
in numerical order.
- (15) The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
Does Domestic Legislation Measure Up? - $7.00
1998 Society for Children and Youth
A look at British Columbia legislation through the lens
of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Using a
four-star system, 140 BC statutes and two examples of federal
legislation were analyzed and rated. Two compliance ratings
were used: one assessed overall compliance and the other
focused on the "views of the child."
Summary, 14 pages (full report out of print)
- (16) The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
"Three in One" booklet - $25.00
- Guidelines for Policy Development
- A Model for Assessing Policy Compliance
- Supplement
2001 Society for Children and Youth
This booklet is a useful tool for those wishing to ensure
that policy complies with the UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child. It contains a step-by-step process and checklists
for those developing new policy, a process and rating criteria
for those assessing the compliance of existing policy, and
a reference supplement which provides additional information
on the Convention and its interpretation. (50 pages)
- (17) The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
A Model for Assessing Legislative Compliance - $20.00
2001 Society for Children and Youth
This booklet further develops the SCY four-star rating system
applied to provincial and federal legislation in 1998, and
provides a step-by-step guide for ongoing assessment of
compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
(50 pages)
- (18) Compliance of Canada's Youth Criminal Justice
Act with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -
$10.00
2002 Society for Children and Youth
An analysis of the Youth Criminal Justice Act using the
SCY four-star rating system described in the above publication
(no.14) (34 pages)
- (19) Compliance of BC's Secure Care Act with the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child - $10.00
2001 Society for Children and Youth
An analysis of BC's Secure Care Act (drafted in 2001 but
not implemented) using the four-star rating system. Useful
for those considering policy in this area. (26 pages)
- (20) Current SCY Position Statements - Free
a. Child and Corporal Punishment 1994
b. Youth Justice 1994
c. Children & Environmental Tobacco Smoke 1998
d. Children and Sport 2001
e. Child's Right to Play 2001
f. Children with Disabilities 2002
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