Facilitation

It's a Girl Thang: A Manual on Creating Girls Groups

The girls group framework presented in this manual is intended to provide marginalized and
at-risk pre-adolescent and adolescent females, ages 12-19, with a space to explore a wide
range of issues that impact their daily lives.

International Theatre of the Oppressed Organisation

The International Theatre of the Oppressed Organisation facilitates the development, networking and exchange of those who use (and wish to use) popular theatre techniques in their programming.

Youth Violence Prevention Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to support youth workers, services providers and their communities in the prevention of youth violence. The toolkit  deals with subjects of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Date Violence, Emotional Violence, Bullying and Community Action. 

Creative Alternatives

Creative Alternatives is a non-profit Creative Arts Therapies Center who use art, drama, music, and dance, to raise awareness, propose alternatives, inspire healing, and motivate critical engagement in social change.

The New Girls' Movement: Implications for Youth Programs Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women

Capacity building for youth led social change is programmed through the Ms. Foundation for Women. As Americas’ first national, multi-issue women’s fund, the Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls' leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. CFYS is a program which supports organizations working at the intersection of positive youth development, youth-led social change and gender-conscious programming.

 

The first round of the collaborative fund, called the Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women, demonstrated that girls, given the proper support and structure, can and want to be social change agents and contribute positively to their wider communities.

Community Empowerment Handbooks / Handbook for Mobilizers

This is a "how-to" book, intended for community mobilizers who want to stimulate social change in a community in the direction of more development, poverty eradication, better governance, increased integrity and transparency in the management of community affairs; in short, empowerment of that community.

 

It includes great handouts, modules and even PowerPoint's.

The Citizen's Handbook

"As far as we know, this is the best quick guide to community organizing on the web." And they may be right...a very popular resource, with lots of great resource on literally organizing your community. Including the nuts & bolts on doing activities like door knocking for your communities issue, block parties, visioning, with interesting links to articles to building your knowledge on issues like "not in my backyardism", information sharing, child-minding co-ops etc.