Toolkit & Guidelines
Practical resources to help you to give children and young people a voice on issues that affect their lives, as well as guidelines to help you to create youth-friendly versions of your work.

Guidelines
Child Friendly Communication at Events
This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.
• 10 min read

Guidelines
Creating child-friendly versions of written documents
This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.
• 15 min read

Toolkits
Tusla Child and Youth Participation Toolkit
The Tusla Child and Youth Participation Toolkit is a ‘quick reference’ document to support skilled practice both within both Tusla and funded agencies.
• 10 min read

Toolkits
Sharing the Stage
A practical guide to helping children and young people take part in decision making. Children and young people are a great resource in our community.
• 10 min read

Toolkits
Seldom Heard Toolkit
This guide is being launched on the same day as the Government’s firstNational Strategy on Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision- Making.
• 15 min read

Toolkits
Comhairle na nÓg Toolkit
The Comhairle na nÓg Toolkit has been developed by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) Citizen Participation Unit.
• 5 min read