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Investing in Youth

Ensuring that young people are adequately prepared to become active and engaged citizens is a key preoccupation for policy-makers in Canada and around the world. Started in 2007, this project has examined the changing realities, issues and challenges of today’s youth, including new conditions and aspects of vulnerability, as well as their implications for public policy. It has developed a knowledge base and framework, by identifying methodological strategies and examining new international thinking and policy approaches with a view to supporting analysis of, and developing policy responses to, emerging youth-related issues in Canada. The main body of work under the Investing in Youth project is scheduled to be completed in early 2010.

Research Outcomes

In addition to reports and activities previous completed under the project over the course of previous fiscal years, remaining publications to be completed by early 2010 aim:

• to disseminate the overall results of its research to a broad community of practice interested in youth issues; and
• to provide federal policy-makers in particular with broad context and a framework to guide potential policy changes in tracking the evolving needs (and increasingly diverse situations) of Canada's youth.