This report focuses on the second phase of the Victoria READ Society’s Workplace Learning Project, which was launched in response to ongoing concerns of area businesses about managing change and recruiting and retaining promising employees.
The READ Society’s Workplace Learning project, Phase 1, sought to explore and understand the issues that employers in British Columbia's Capital Region were having regarding hiring, retaining and promoting employees with lower literacy skills.
Family literacy work occurs in many places across the greater Victoria area in British Columbia. The Victoria Read Society has compiled a list of the family literacy programs offered in communities in the area using information collected in 2005-06.