Below are some selected articles and manuals authored by Michelle dealing with youth engagement and generational change. For access to further articles and resources, contact info@michelledagnino.com.
Youth Engagement Manual - developed for Community Living Ontario
The purpose of this manual is to provide an easy to use, succinct guide that outlines some of the best ways to encourage authentic youth participation in your organization. This manual attempts to examine best practices and challenges in the engagement of young people as leaders and decision-makers in projects, programs and organizations. Overall it aims to address meaningful ways to involve youth in organizational governance. It provides tools and strategies to help adults help young people in developing and implementing projects, plans, and policies to guide service- learning efforts.
Youth Policy Outcomes Strategy - prepared for United Ways of Ontario
At the Youth Discussion Day in March 2008, the United Ways of Ontario (UWO) agreed to collaborate on a Call for a provincial youth outcomes strategy. Since then, a community discussion guide was developed to assist the United Ways (UWs) to convene in their local communities and build support for this Call. Throughout 2008-2009, a number of community discussions took place. In connecting with United Ways, schools and community organizations across the province, we explored the specific youth needs and initiatives in different communities. The points below reflect the common issues and ideas which arose from the community forums.
Youth Policy Outcomes Summary Document - prepared for United Ways of Ontario
Generation Map – Insight into leading and managing four generations
Prepared for “Speaking of Impact: The Voice of Canadian Meetings”, an overview of the main characteristics and traits of the four generations currently in the workplace.
Supporting the Call for a Youth Provincial Community Forum Toolkit - prepared for the United Ways of Ontario
As part of a multi-year discussion on supporting a youth provincial framework, the Roots of Youth Violence Report, included a call for a Youth Provincial Framework. This tool kit includes a guide for hosting a community Forum with the purpose of developing advocacy strategies for the framework.
“It’s Hard to Change Something When You Don’t Know Where to Start”: Unpacking HIV Vulnerability with Aboriginal Youth in Canada - Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health
As a result of social and economic inequities, Indigenous youth globally are disproportionately vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Canada’s First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people are among them. In this paper, we discuss the collaborative community-based approach we adopted to uncover new possibilities for HIV prevention with Aboriginal youth that account for systemic inequities. This project is part of a larger Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP) research agenda.
HIV Risk, Systemic Inequities, and Aboriginal Youth: Widening the Circle for HIV Prevention Programming - Canadian Journal of Public Health
In Canada, Aboriginal people are overrepresented in the HIV epidemic and infected at a younger age than non-Aboriginal people. This paper discusses some of the ways Aboriginal youth in Toronto understand HIV/AIDS risk and the relevance of their comments for HIV prevention education. This research is part of a larger study conducted with Ontario youth through the Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP) project.
Youth, Photovoice & HIV/AIDS - refereed conference presentation for CANFAR.
PhotoVoice’s mission is to build skills within disadvantaged and marginalized communities using innovative participatory photography and digital storytelling methods so that they have the opportunity to represent themselves and create tools for advocacy and communications to achieve positive social change.
Features: Time to Represent
http://section15.ca/features/ideas/2007/10/01/ontario_referendum/
The Role of Technology in our Changing Workforce
Technology has always been a constantly evolving part of the world and part of the workplace. So why do we keep hearing more and more about how important it is to Generation Y and why we need to pay attention to it in order to keep our business running smoothly and our employees happy?
Managing the Intergenerational Workforce
Most companies today have an abundant mixture of generations within their workplace. With each emerging generation comes a new attitude, work ethic, life experience and set of goals. Managing a workplace with the generational diversity that we are seeing today presents its own very unique challenges.
Channeling the Generation Y Sense of Entitlement
Generation Y is unique in the fact that they have grown up with parents who showered them with praise constantly, often did not believe in the word “no” and who repeatedly told their children that they could be anything in the world they wanted. As they graduate from high school and college, this group retains their sense of privilege and has come to be known as the entitlement generation. In order for employers to get the most out of Gen Yers, they need to channel this sense of entitlement in order to utilize their employees and their skills effectively. The attitude in this generation is in direct opposition to the baby boomers, who, while are still a major force in the workplace, are starting to retire.