National Literacy Secretariat - National Funding Stream 2002-2003
Mrs. Maureen Sanders
CENTRE FOR FAMILY LITERACY SOCIETY OF ALBERTA
201 - 11456 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, ALBERTA
T5K 0M1
Tel. (780) 421-7323
Building Capacity: Communications and Promotion in Family Literacy
The Centre for Family Literacy Society of Alberta will undertake a project to develop and implement a plan for family literacy promotion, awareness and support. The objectives of the project are to raise public awareness of family literacy to a new level throughout Alberta, increase support of family literacy in the private and public sectors and update the promotional materials of the Centre in order to provide relevant information about the Centre and its range of services. The Centre will work with Literacy Alberta to develop high profile Family Literacy Day events to be held in Edmonton and Calgary and involve current government, corporate and community partners. These events will heighten public awareness about family literacy and provide literacy coordinators in large and small communities with a model they can follow to organize similar events. A report detailing the planning for the Family Literacy Day events will be shared with groups across the country. The Centre will also develop a communications plan and promotional materials to promote the excellence of the Centre and the key role of family literacy in the development of families. Materials will include brochures, information folders, display boards, photos, a promotional video about the services of the Centre and re-developed website. These materials will be used to promote family literacy and the work of the Centre at meetings, conferences, presentations and other public events. The Centre will also provide support and advice to regional initiatives for implementing Foundational Training for Family Literacy across the country. The project will be evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively and a final report will be submitted to the NLS.
Dr. L.S. Beauchamp
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA - FACULTY OF EDUCATION
653 Education South
Edmonton, ALBERTA
T6G 2G5
Tel. (780) 492-2984
Professional Development Workshop: Integrating Assessment and Instruction
The Faculty of Education, University of Alberta will develop professional development workshops on reading assessment and deliver them to adult literacy practitioners across Canada. This project builds on the University's previous work in developing resources and conducting research focussing on assessment and instruction in literacy and the need expressed by the literacy community for training in this area. Thirteen workshops will be facilitated across Canada. These interactive workshops will build a foundation of knowledge in the theory and practice of reading assessment and instruction and focus on integrating the two components to promote a student's growth in literacy. A facilitator's guidebook will also be created that can be used by educators who want to deliver similar workshops. The workshops will be evaluated by the participants and a final report will be submitted to the NLS.
Ms. Linda Mitchell
LBCS LITERACY BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY
510 West Hastings Street
Suite 601
Vancouver, BRITISH COLOMBIA
V6B 1L8
Tel. (604) 684-0624
Youth Demonstration Project: What Works in Youth Literacy (Supplement)
Literacy BC, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Educational Development, Surrey School District, and area social service agencies, will set up Canada's first lab-site-based Canadian demonstration literacy project for out-of-school youth exhibiting risk factors. The project will document the research and dissemination of promising practices; build on existing tools such as HRDC's "Essential Skills" and the U.S.-based National Institute for Literacy's "Equipped for the Future" framework; implement key promising practices;and engage students in a variety of activities through positive role models. An experienced team of researchers will develop the research design; prepare curriculum materials and implementation guidelines; train staff; interview students, teachers, and other stakeholders; analyze data; facilitate practitioner discussions; and prepare research reports. A multi-dimensional/multi-media approach to learning will allow students to focus on the role of literacy in their daily lives. They will engage in activities related to reading and writing; creating and maintaining personal Web sites; and using Internet-based resources and printed works. They will also focus on creative literacy work while participating in workshops delivered by artists, writers, musicians, trades and crafts people. Specific workshops will be chosen based on projects that have shown promise elsewhere and on the particular interests and talents exhibited by participating youth. The project will also aim to integrate literacy education with employment preparation, and incorporate personal planning with work experience where appropriate. The target group will include youth facing significant risk factors such as dropping out of school, becoming involved in criminal activities, or engaging in negative social behaviour. Reports will be maintained to track: the social well-being of participating youths, program participation and involvement in literacy work, gains made in literacy skills, transition to training and academic programs and engagement in positive social activities. For those transitioning to work, data will be collected on placement rates, entry-level wages, earning gains, and job retention. Linkage agreements will be developed with appropriate social service agencies to facilitate the referral of students for services. The availability, sufficiency and adequacy of these services will also be tracked and documented. Literacy practitioners throughout Canada will be given the opportunity to participate through a Web site that will be developed as a repository for ideas and materials to assist in the implementation of promising practices.
SUPPLEMENT - This supplement will allow the organization to respond to emerging and clearly identified needs of the demonstration project that will ensure the current project goals are met. It will support the continuing curriculum redesign and provide more support to staff.
Ms. Linda Mitchell
LBCS LITERACY BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY
510 West Hastings Street
Suite 601
Vancouver, BRITISH COLOMBIA
V6B 1L8
Tel. (604) 684-0624
First Steps, Phase 2: Towards a National Literacy Electronic Network and Conferencing Service
The 1996 report ("Needs Assessment for an Electronic Infrastructure for the Canadian Literacy Community"), conducted by Consulting and Audit Canada (CAC), identified the need and support for a Canada-wide electronic infrastructure for literacy. Literacy BC, in partnership with three key stakeholders: the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD), the AlphaPlus Centre, and the "eLit" conferencing service (a cooperative formed by the Alberta Association for Adult Literacy, Saskatchewan Literacy Network, and Literacy Partners of Manitoba) will build on the results of the First Phase by developing a plan grounded in research, consultation and consensus as to the feasibility, affordability and approach to creating a national electronic conferencing service for the literacy community. Literacy BC will conduct research and analysis to create the business requirements and provide recommendations, communicate with the literacy field about the project and strategize and plan for the future development. The final report will include recommendations and clearly outline the options and impacts of proposed solutions.
Dr. Gary Birch
NEIL SQUIRE FOUNDATION
2250 Boundary Road
Suite 220
Burnaby, BRITISH COLOMBIA
V5M 4L9
Tel. (604) 473-9363
Barriers to Participation in Literacy Activities Facing People with Physical Disabilities
The Neil Squire Foundation (NSF) is a Canadian non-profit organization that provides education, technology and career development for people with disabilities. The project "Barriers to Participation in Literacy Activities Facing People with Physical Disabilities" will seek to improve the understanding of the barriers that prevent literacy programs and activities from being truly accessible to people with physical disabilities. This Project will involve the creation and administration of data collection instrument in the form of a semi-structured interview. This tool will then be used to collect information directly from people with physical disabilities about their perceptions and experiences of barriers preventing them from participating in literacy programs and otherwise improving their literacy skills. They will also conduct a thorough analysis of the literature in order to improve the data collection instrument. A series of recommendations and proposed best practices will be produced to assist literacy practitioners in providing services that are truly accessible to people with physical disabilities. This project will benefit the literacy practitioners serving the needs of people with physical disabilities. A steering committee will conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the research methodology in relation to the achievement of their goals.
Mr. Richard Frost
THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION
1350 One Lombard Place
Winnipeg, MANITOBA
R3B 0X3
Tel. (204) 944-9474
Literacy for Life Endowment Challenge
The Winnipeg Foundation is Canada's first community foundation, established in 1921, and now consisting of 1400 endowment funds created by individuals and groups to care for the needs of the communities in Manitoba. This initiative is a grassroots project with an advisory committee with members from the provincial literacy coalition, the provincial literacy office, and the public library system in Winnipeg. The Winnipeg Foundation and its partners will establish the Literacy for Life Endowment Challenge Fund which will help support existing and innovative family literacy initiatives in Manitoba. This project will provide the opportunity for Manitoba to host a provincial family literacy forum on "Measuring what Matters" which will be part of the kick-off and consultation with local experts advising the committee on national best practices, trends, and research in progress on outcomes, as a made-in Manitoba Family Literacy Strategy is being crafted. The Literacy for Life Endowment Challenge Fund will help increase the availability of materials and resources to the family literacy field in the province. The Winnipeg Foundation will report to the NLS per the Memorandum of Agreement.
Mr. R. Blois Colpitts
READ TO ME! FOUNDATION INC.
Suite 1500
1959 Upper Water Street
Halifax, NOVA SCOTIA
B3J 3N2
Tel. (902) 492-6000
Establishment of the READ TO ME! Foundation Inc. Endowment Fund to Carry Out the Nova Scotia Family Literacy Program
The Halifax Youth Foundation has joined forces with the leading pediatric hospital in Eastern Canada-the IWK Health Centre and the Cape Breton Regional Health Care Complex to establish READ TO ME! Foundation Inc. Research in Nova Scotia show that many children's opportunities to learn are eroded by the high incidence of child poverty and low literacy levels. Family learning initiatives are needed to address these statistics and to improve literacy levels in Nova Scotia. This foundation is created to implement a province-wide program whereby each newborn in Nova Scotia receives a tote bag of books and learning supports before leaving the hospital. This initiative will help support a child's learning from birth, support parents as their children's first and most important teacher, encourage a healthy learning environment in the home and encourage book sharing between parents and children as a means to facilitate bonding, talking, singing and other language activities which support early development. READ To ME! Endowment Fund will report to the NLS as per the Memorandum of Agreement.
Ms. Sandy Kusugak
NUNAVUT LITERACY COUNCIL
1 Kamotik Road
Box 1049
Cambridge Bay, NUNAVUT
X0B 0C0
Tel. (867) 983-2678
Nunavut IALSS Project
The Nunavut Literacy Council will work in collaboration with Nunavut Arctic College, Statistics Canada and the Government of Nunavut, to produce statistical reports based on 880 sample sizes of adults from Nunavut's Inuit and Non-Inuit populations. This will be the first time that Nunavut will be participating in the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS). IALSS, a follow-up from the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), is a joint project of the U.S. and Canadian governments and the Organization for Economic and Community Development (OECD), designed to produce estimates of change in the literacy proficiency of the adult population in Canada. The sample survey will provide researchers, policy analysts, program coordinators and Territorial, Federal and Inuit organizations with data to put together a current profile of literacy and numeracy within the adult population of Nunavut. It will include the review, verification, editing and publication of the final research report in 2003, and will be evaluated through the degree of successful participation in the quality of deliverables.
Mrs. Alla Ivask
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY RESOURCE PROGRAMS
(FRP CANADA)
707 - 331 Cooper Street
Ottawa, ONTARIO
K2P 0G5
Tel. (613) 237-7667
Adaptation of Weaving Literacy into Family and Community Life: A Resource Guide for Promoting Literacy in Family Resource Programs for Francophone Family Resource Practitioners
The Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs (FRP) is a bilingual, charitable organization that was founded in 1975 as a national association of toy libraries, and has since evolved to serve the interests of a large and diverse membership of family-serving organizations. In 1999-2000, FRP, in partnership with the Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL), and with support from the National Literacy Secretariat, produced a set of booklets ("Weaving Literacy into Family and Community Life") as a Resource Guide for promoting literacy in family resource programs. In response to increasing demands from community workers within Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland/Labrador, FRP, in partnership with MCL, and in collaboration with the Fédération canadienne pour l'alphabétisation en français, will adapt the Resource Guide for community programs that work with francophone families. FRP will consult with francophone literacy organizations; complete a French adaptation of the publication; and work with a team of experts to develop a comprehensive, bilingual national training plan based on the Resource Guide. The project will be evaluated through feedback from participating organizations; and through the increase in requests for the publication.
Mr. John Daniel O'Leary
FRONTIER COLLEGE
35 Jackes Avenue
Toronto, ONTARIO
M4T 1E2
Tel. (416) 923-3591
Research Needs Assessment on Adult Learning
Frontier College, Canada's oldest literacy organization, will research and evaluate best practices in the delivery of adult literacy programming which will help re-examine their role as a provider of adult literacy and work towards a strategic plan. Over the last twenty-five years Frontier College has been developing a wide variety of programs to provide literacy support to adult learners. For the last decade, there have been major changes to theories of adult learning, research has led to a new understanding of learning disabilities and how they affect people's abilities to develop and retain skills therefore Frontier College will implement this three-year project to renew their strategy and approaches to working with adult learners. They will do this by developing a thorough analysis of existing programming with adults including an examination of which population of adults are involved, their learning outcomes and successes or best practices to help them achieve these outcomes. The findings will be analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively to develop a clearer picture and will be kept in a new developed information base. This information will be used to develop a new strategic plan for working with adults. This project will be completed in three phases and will include a qualitative examination of an identified questionnaire. A written final report with the new strategy will be submitted to the NLS.
Madame Luce Lapierre
FÉDÉRATION CANADIENNE POUR L'ALPHABÉTISATION EN
FRANÇAIS INC.
235, chemin Montréal
Pièce 205
Vanier, ONTARIO
K1L 6C7
Tel. (613) 749-5333
Formation des formateurs en alphabétisation familiale: Adaptation de <Foundational Training Material>
Adapt the Foundational Training in Family Literacy project to reflect the diversity of the Francophone community, as well as the project’s experience and expertise in family literacy training in Alberta.
Train family literacy trainers and practitioners who work with families.
Mr. Graham Stewart
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF CANADA
809 Blackburn Mews
Kingston, ONTARIO
K7P 2N6
Tel. (613) 384-6272
Prison Voices Literacy Text Project
The John Howard Society of Canada (JHSC), a national non-profit organization located in 65 communities across Canada, is dedicated to reducing the causes and consequences of crime through a range of services for those who are in conflict with the law or at risk of becoming so. The Society provides a variety of services assisting individuals to become more literate. JHSC, in collaboration with Lee Weinstein (managing editor of Voices magazine), jobSTART (a Vancouver Eastside Educational Enrichment Society Project) and the School District 36, is proposing to create a learner-written textbook for prison literacy learners, with student workbook and teacher guide. The textbook, named "Prison Voices", will contain stories written by incarcerated learners. The workbook and teacher guide will focus on activities related content of the textbook for beginning/intermediate learners and advanced learners respectively. The project will proceed in four stages: a development stage, a facilitation/collection stage, a production stage and a distribution and evaluation stage. This project will print 2,000 textbooks and 2,000 teacher guides that will be distributed with the help of the Corrections Services Canada to federal prison-based literacy programs in Canada, offices of the John Howard Society, and each province's designated provincial literacy organizations. To evaluate this initiative, a questionnaire will be distributed with the textbook and teacher guide which will help qualify and identify the usefulness of these publications.
Mr. George Thomson
NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE
161 Laurier Avenue West
Suite 300
Ottawa, ONTARIO
K1P 5J2
Tel. (613) 237-1118
Literacy in the Justice System
The National Judicial Institute was established to prepare people appointed to serve as judges. It is chaired by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada but everyone named to the bench in every province and territory must take the Institute’s course before they can begin to hear cases. The Institute approached the National Literacy Secretariat for help because judges asked what to do about people who appear before them and have difficulty reading and writing court documents. This includes both people accused of committing crimes as well as witnesses and juries that deal with written documents or exhibits. The NLS designed this project so that Frontier College and the John Howard Society of Canada can help the Institute to find answers to the judges’ request for advice. The project will be guided by an advisory committee made up of sitting judges, educators and the NLS. It will produce a number of concrete training materials for testing by the Institute. Products will include a) a resource book of cases where literacy played a key role, b) a video presentation of what can be done to help all people in a court room clearly understand written information, and c) put all materials on the Internet. The project has two overall objectives: 1) to make the justice system fair and accessible for people with low literacy skills; and 2) to put literacy on the ‘agendas’ of influential new partners involved with the delivery of justice across Canada.
Mr. Carl Cadogan
NOKEE KWE OCCUPATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT INC.
137 Dundas Street
2nd Floor
London, ONTARIO
N6A 1E9
Tel. (519) 667-7088
To Strengthen the Learning Circles
Nokee Kwe Occupational Skill Development Inc. is a charitable non-profit organization that is a leader in the provision of holistic and comprehensive services to Native and Non Native adults and youth in Canada. Nokee Kwe, in partnership with Beverly Anne Sabourin & Associates, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, the National Disability Secretariat, Industry Canada and the Aboriginal Business Council/Aboriginal Private Sector propose to organize a national applied professional development training seminar for aboriginal literacy practitioners in Canada in June of 2004. This initiative will provide the opportunity for practitioners to coordinate and share information. They will organize a five-day comprehensive and multi-faceted professional development and training conference where approximately 100 aboriginal literacy practitioners will be provided with an intensive training experience. It will allow them to enhance their skills and enable them to improve their service to learners across Canada. This training will also provide a presentation of thematic keynote addresses, applied training workshops, and ancillary activities. Nokee Kwe will also work at gathering background information in a book format as a resource reference to the workshops. The event will be taped and a video will be produced. The organization will develop a questionnaire to evaluate the training seminar. A written final report will be submitted to the NLS.
Ms. Sue Folinsbee
ONTARIO LITERACY COALITION
365 Bloor Street East
Suite 1003
Toronto, ONTARIO
M4W 3L4
Tel. (416) 963-5787
Building a Provincial Strategy for Family Literacy Action in Ontario
The Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC) will develop a long-term provincial strategy for family literacy action in Ontario. Within the next three years, OLC will: put together a committed group of champions to develop a provincial mission, vision and plan for family literacy action; develop and implement a long-term professional development plan for family literacy practitioners and early literacy specialists; build public awareness about the benefits and impact of family literacy through presentations; and increase information sharing in terms of family literacy events and activities across the province. OLC will also aim to build new partnerships and develop additional resources for family literacy based on intergovernmental partnerships. One component of this project will also include planning and organizing a Summer Institute for 20-25 participants based on the Foundational Training piloted in Nova Scotia. OLC will develop an evaluation strategy for each year of the project.
Mrs. Linda Leith
BLUE METROPOLIS FOUNDATION
1650 Lincoln
suite 003
Montreal, QUEBEC
H3H 1H1
Tel. (514) 932-1112
Blue Metropolis Foundation Community Writing Programme 2003
The Blue Metropolis Foundation, in partnership with the Centre for Literacy of Quebec, the Centre Yves-Thériault and the Centre Lartigue, will develop and organize bilingual "Community Writing/Literacy Events". The events will be run in conjunction with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in April 2003. In its fifth year, Blue Metropolis - The City of Words - will focus on a theme ideally suited to the highlighting of community writing in an international context: Reading the World, Writing the World. The objective is to bring together people in the literacy and the larger national and international education and library communities to explore the connections between literacy, community and the pursuit of social justice. There will be writers from all over the world: French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Catalan, Inuktituk and Macedonian writers. The festival will bring together literacy professionals, students and members of writing circles from across the country. The activities involve a full day of community writing events in the context of the Blue Metropolis International Literacy Festival and related professional workshop. New partnerships will be forged and opportunities for mentoring and exchange will be established between experienced writers and other participants. Blue Metropolis will ensure visibility of both events through media coverage. Radio Canada and CBC have been confirmed as festival broadcasters. The workshop will be evaluated by participants filling out a detailed written evaluation form that will assess the quality of the session, the learning achieved and the expected applications. A longer-term evaluation will focus on tracking continuing response to the community writing initiative.
Ms. Denise Destrempes-Marquez
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF QUEBEC
284 Notre-Dame Street West
Suite 300
Montréal, QUEBEC
H2Y 1T7
Tel.: (514) 847-1324
Dépister pour alphabétiser [detecting learning disabilities to assist with literacy]
The Learning Disabilities Association of Quebec (LDAQ) plans to hold training activities for some 85 literacy workers in Quebec in order to better equip them to detect learning disabilities in their students and propose strategies designed to meet the needs of their clients. As part of a project developed elsewhere in Canada by the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC), LDAQ will hold two workshops in English and French as part of its annual conference in March, which will take place in Montréal. The workshops will be followed by two two-day training sessions, also in English and French, which will provide participants with a theoretical framework for understanding learning disabilities, as well as practical tools for detecting problems and dealing with them appropriately. Relevant documentation regarding the problem and the training approach will be given out to participants, who will be asked to assess the training, along with the specialists and organizers involved.
Ms. Sophie Labrecque
FONDATION QUÉBECOISE POUR L'ALPHABÉTISATION
1259 Berri Street
Suite 430
Montréal, QUEBEC
H2L 4C7
Tel.: (514) 289-1178
Création du Fonds du Courage [creation of the Fonds du Courage]
The Fondation québécoise pour l'alphabétisation [Quebec literacy foundation] is using start-up funding to establish an endowment that will ensure the long-term viability of the foundation’s activities and services and make it possible to provide financial support for literacy activities. To do this, it will finalize agreements developed with various private partners, draw upon professional canvassers who have been identified and are in touch with the business world, carry out a direct mail campaign to targeted businesses and, lastly, firm up the commitment of businesses interested in supporting the endowment fund. The participation rate of businesses, the type of response achieved and, above all, the concrete commitment of businesses and individuals to the endowment fund, which has a goal of raising $1 million, will be the measure of success of the initiative.
Ms. Sophie Labrecque
FONDATION QUÉBECOISE POUR L'ALPHABÉTISATION
1259 Berri Street
Suite 430
Montréal, QUEBEC
H2L 4C7
Tel.: (514) 289-1178
Diversification des stratégies pour la mobilisation de la société civile [diversification of strategies to mobilize civil society]
The Fondation québécoise pour l'alphabétisation [Quebec literacy foundation], in financial partnership with public and private sector organizations, plans to carry out an awareness and prevention campaign among the general public and businesses by developing three different initiatives, which are: the donation of books to children of undereducated parents living in impoverished circumstances, an exhibition focusing on creativity and artistic expression using the alphabet, and meeting the basic education reference requirements of business and the training community. The first initiative involves poster advertising outdoors and in the metro showing the value of reading and donating of books and development of a strategy to get businesses involved in collecting books and making corporate donations. The second initiative requires the involvement of a recognized artist who, after consultation and an exchange with the community, will create 26 paintings related to the alphabet. The paintings will be the topic of a major public exhibition and workshops with literacy organizations. The third initiative involves developing a reference protocol with and among service providers and businesses, developing an ongoing tool for building awareness of basic education to benefit business and developing basic education diagnostic tools for businesses. The foundation has the support of a wide range of cultural, social, economic and political groups and has developed a strong partnership with the government of Quebec regarding reference materials and awareness in the areas of literacy and adult education. Qualitative and quantitative assessment measures have been planned and will be introduced. Progress reports for each initiative will be provided and a final report submitted to the National Literacy Secretariat.
Mr. Yvon Wagner
GROUPE INTAC (INTÉGRATION DES NOUVELLES
TECHNOLOGIES D'APPRENTISSAGE ET DE COMMUNICATION)
2036 1st Avenue
Lac Saint-Charles, QUEBEC
G3G 2X9
Tel.: (418) 841-3986
Expérimentation du logiciel L'Atelier Alpha [experimental use of the software Atelier Alpha]
The Groupe INTAC (Intégration des nouvelles technologies d'apprentissage et de communication) [integration of new learning and communication technologies group] plans to test a literacy material publishing software using 15 adult education and community education centre trainers. The project has a two-fold objective, to test the capacities of the software and make any necessary corrections and also to assess the methods used in a training tool that should eventually be used by most literacy workers. To do this, a paper-based learning guide will be developed, a trainer/facilitator will be given training, post-training on-line activities will be supported, the learning units or exercises will be validated with the students, the data collected will be analyzed and a report will be produced. Project evaluation will take place on an ongoing basis and a descriptive record will be maintained of training input, follow-up activities and distance interventions, as well as any modifications to the software.
Ms. Isabelle Courteau
MAISON DE LA POÉSIE
325-4450 Saint Hubert
Montréal, QUEBEC
H2J 2W9
Tel.: (514) 526-6251
Avant les mots du poème [before the words of the poem]
The Maison de la poésie [poetry house] in collaboration with the Regroupement des groupes populaires en alphabétisation du Québec, [Quebec literacy group collective] plans to test a new literacy teaching approach that uses poetry as a means of teaching and include the results of the experiment in a package of learning material. To do this, the Maison de la poésie will use a test group and, with the assistance of its tutor/trainer, a recognized poet in the community and a literacy content specialist, will develop the format and content of the poetry workshop. Once it has been critiqued and assessed, the workshop will be proposed to some 20 groups in the metropolitan area for purposes of validation. The workshop will be prepared and adapted to the learning level and realities of the participants and will be conducted by the selected poet, with assistance from the tutor/trainer and constant support from the literacy content specialist. The entire approach will be evaluated by the tutors, specialist and poet, with input from the adult participants, and the training materials will be developed and published for possible distribution by the Regroupement des groupes populaires en alphabétisation du Québec to all of its members working elsewhere in the province. The materials may also be made available to Francophone groups across Canada.
Mrs. Elena Labranche
NUNAVIK REGIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
P.O. Box 900
Kuujjuaq, QUEBEC
J0M 1C0
Tel. (819) 964-2222
Behind the Smokescreen: Overcoming Nicotine Addiction and Illiteracy in Inuit Communities (Supplement)
This project marks the third initiative undertaken in partnership between HRDC-Literacy and the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, all based on the relationship between improved literacy skills and personal and public health. This undertaking is based on quitting smoking and will involve a) the training of Inuit health and community counselors as literacy workers and b) offering this combined life-style change support to individuals and community groups. Special learning materials (in French, English and Inuit) will be developed to help people gain greater control over their lives by quitting smoking while they improve their reading, writing and critical thinking skills. THIS SUPPLEMENT will provide a complementary, bilingual resource for nurses and doctors in the North, to encourage and motivate them to support the work of Inuit smoking counselors and their clients. The resource will be disseminated during two training events in Nunavik and through the regional health board. The supplement will also help promote literacy and non smoking lifestyles in Inuit communities.
Mr. Yvon Bouchard
UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI
300 Allée des Ursulines
Rimouski, QUEBEC
G5L 3A1
Tel.: (418) 723-1986
Étude des facteurs qui font obstacle à la participation des adultes peu alphabétisés à des activités d'apprentissage (Supplément) [study of barriers to participation of low-literacy adults in learning activities (supplementary)]
The University of Quebec at Rimouski (UQAR) plans to conduct formal and informal research into the institutional and other factors that are barriers to the participation of the vast majority of low-literacy adults in learning activities. Based on proven methodologies and using semi-structured individual interviews and group interviews, the study will draw upon three sources of information, i.e. adults who have never taken training, students, and literacy professionals, and will identify profiles of non-participants based on the identified factors and their sociodemographic characteristics. The profiles and all of the information and results of the research should enable service organizations to improve their recruitment strategies, andragogical practices and organizational conditions to foster participation of low-literacy adults. The research is supported by provincial interest groups such as the Regroupement des groupes populaires en alphabétisation du Québec [Quebec literacy group collective] and the Institut canadien d'éducation des adultes [Canadian institute for adult education], which, in partnership with the UQAR, will provide coaching and develop a plan to disseminate the results. The supplementary funding will make it possible to add to the sample a dozen people who will complement the information collected from the other information sources, by virtue of their work or their interest in employment integration. The information will be gathered using sixty-minute individual interviews. The supplementary funding will also enable research and secretarial staff to spend the required time on selecting samples, collecting data from information sources and coding the data, all of which requires more work than initially planned.
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