National Adult Literacy Database

Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada

Collection: Learning Materials

This is one of four video case studies developed by ABC Life Literacy Canada to showcase successful workplace education programs across Canada.

This video focuses on Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver, British Columbia, which has its own learning centre to help employees develop both Essential Skills and the unique job skills required in the horse racing industry.

The learning centre responds to widely varied needs, including Adult Basic Education (ABE); General Education Development (GED) accreditation; and English as a Second Language (ESL) training. As well, the centre offers a groom school that teaches participants how to care for and groom thoroughbred horses.

The video is accompanied by written material that supplies further details about the learning centre, along with insights into a unique industry.

Funders:

• Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
• Capilano University
• Hastings Entertainment Inc.
• HBPA

Added: 2012-11-05

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Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Client (U.S.)

Authors: Martha R. Burt, Laudan Y. Aron, Toby Douglas, Edgar Lee, Jesse Valente

Collection: Research Materials

This report provides the results of the landmark National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients. The study, conducted in the US in 1996, was designed to compile updated information about the providers of homeless assistance and the characteristics of homeless persons who use services.

For more information or to obtain a copy of this report, contact:

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street SW
Washington, DC 20410 USA
Tel: (202) 708-1112
TTY: (202) 708-1455
Website: http://www.hud.gov

Added: 1999-01-01

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Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada

Collection: Learning Materials

This resource combines text and short videos to explain why Essential Skills training is vital in the hospitality industry, and to show how two hotels are meeting that challenge through their training and recruitment strategies.

The authors point out that job descriptions in the hospitality sector have changed drastically. Many jobs once considered low-skilled now require computer skills and the ability to understand complicated documents.

As well, many recent immigrants find jobs in this sector, and they may need training in English as a Second Language (ESL).

Representatives of two hotels, one in Toronto, Ontario, and the other in Victoria, British Columbia, explain how they have developed partnerships with unions and community organizations to provide workplace training.

The benefits to the hotels include reduced staff turnover, while employees find that training helps them earn promotions to better jobs within the organization.

This resource is part of a series of case studies developed by ABC Life Literacy Canada to promote successful workplace education programs across Canada.

Funders:

• Employment Ontario
• Equal Opportunity Training Fund
• Government of Canada
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• Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
• Province of British Columbia
• SkillsPlus

Added: 2012-11-28

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Authors: Meeka Arnakaq

Collection: Learning Materials

The goal of this manual is to help people learn to manage their lives. The author, an Inuk healer and elder from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, has drawn upon traditional Inuit practices in writing the manual.

The author compares a person’s physical body to the part of an iceberg that is visible above the water, while the inner person is hidden. The inner person is where an individual hides pain and secrets but it is also where the individual can find everything that is required for a healthy lifestyle.

The author offers advice for healing pain in the heart and the mind, as well as for dealing with cultural wounds.

The text has been directly translated into English from the author’s traditional teaching, handwritten in Inuktitut syllables. In order to maintain the integrity of the author’s work and oral traditional knowledge, there has been only minimal editing of content and sentence structure.

For more information on these resources, please visit http://www.lulu.com.

Added: 2011-07-12

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Authors: Harold Alden

Collection: Research Materials

This study examines the political and economic assumptions that affect the theory and practice of adult literacy and basic education in Canada.

Added: 2000-05-30

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Women's Education des femmes, Sept. 1983 - Vol. 2, No. 1

Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

Authors: Lisa Avedon

Collection: Research Materials

This article describes a Colloquium on the Impact of the National Training Program on Women, sponsored by CCLOW in Toronto, June 18, 1983. Following the Colloquium, several major recommendations made to the Minister of Employment and Immigration, including affirmative action and improved accesses for part-time education.

Added: 2004-08-17

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Harm Reduction and Learning in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Authors: Betsy Alkenbrack

Collection: Research Materials

This report presents the findings of a research project conducted over a two-year period by Capilano College instructors as part of their work with adults with “high-risk” lifestyles (including drug use, working in the sex trade, living with violent partners and being street-involved) at two learning centres in Vancouver’s downtown east side. The instructors who manage and teach in these centres wanted to learn more about the "Harm Reduction" approach for treating drug and alcohol addiction and how they could use it to improve teaching and learning at the centres. The philosophy behind this approach is that any change in a program participant’s lifestyle must happen on their own terms, at their speed, following a path that works for them.

This report is divided into three parts:
1. Literature review on "Harm Reduction" and lessons for literacy work
2. Research on "Harm Reduction" and lessons for literacy work in Vancouver's downtown east side
3. Conclusions and recommendations

Funders:

• OLES

Added: 2008-04-23

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From a working forum for health, literacy, and early childhood practitioners

Series: In from the margins

Authors: Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, The Adult Working Group, The Health Human Resource Capacity Building for Health Literacy

Collection: Research Materials

This report includes more than 30 promising practices submitted and approved by the delegates attending a two-day forum entitled “In from the Margins: Promising Practices and Possibilities for Health and Learning,” held in Richmond, B.C., in March 2009.

The authors note that the promising practices appear as they were submitted and have not been evaluated by the working groups that organized the forum.

This report is a companion piece to the document entitled “In From the Margins: Forum Reflections Report.”

Added: 2010-11-01

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See also:

• "Sortir de la marginalité": Pratiques prometteuses et possibilités pour la santé et l'apprentissage

Series: Financial Literacy Tips & Activities

Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada

Collection: Learning Materials

This document sets out, in chart form, programs the Government of Canada offers to help parents save for their children’s post-secondary education through a Registered Education Savings Plan. The programs are the Canada Learning Bond (CLB); the Canada Education Savings Grant – Basic (CESG – Basic); and the Canada Education Savings Grant – Additional (CESG – Additional).

The authors explain who is eligible for each of the programs and offer step-by-step instructions for taking advantage of them.

Added: 2011-06-03

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Series: Financial Literacy Tips & Activities

Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada

Collection: Learning Materials

This document explains, in chart form, three special savings plans established by the Government of Canada: the Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP); the Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA); and the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP).

For the RRSP, the authors also provide a chart that shows how much greater a return on investment someone can earn by starting to save at age 25 instead of waiting until age 30, 35, 40 or 45.

Added: 2011-06-03

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