The Healthy Children, Healthy Communities: Action Toolkit for Positive Change provides insight into how to engage youth, explains the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, frames health issues within a community as a rights issue,  builds upon community assets, and suggests activities to explore social and structural barriers in creating improved and holistic health outcomes for youth.  This resource by the United Nations Association in Canada essentially serves as a toolkit for social activism and community development. 

Monitoring Children's Rights: A Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations serves as a resource to introduce community service providers to children's rights, rights monitoring, and a community approach to monitoring through informative chapters, supplementary resources and learning activities. 

This article, by the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, tackles common questions about the rights of children covered under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also offers assistance to locate articles pertaining to specific topics within the convention and clarifies how to  interpret  the convention.

The PDF version of Poverty, What is it? A Discussion Book for Students in Grades 5 to 8/ La Pauvreté, Qu'est-ce Que C'est? Cahier de discussion pour les élèves de la 5e à la 8e année, provides the responses of  students in grades five to eight on what poverty looks like in various contexts and what actions have been, are, and should be taken to lessen the burden of poverty within communities. It was designed with the purpose to challenge assumptions about poverty and offer reflection on marginalized groups and their experiences of poverty.

A grade 7 teaching resource, from Being an Active Citizen, which encourages students to actively participate in shaping their communities and teaches students about the basics of law and government within BC and nationally. 
 

This version of the The Rights Angle manual is created to assist facilitators in teaching human rights to junior and senior high school students. It provides activities as well as background information on the  Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,  the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Alberta provincial human rights legislation, Newspaper structure and content, and critical reading.