This report provides a detailed account and analysis of 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 say they hope this report can be a resource for other organizations trying to address the health of marginalized adults and their families.
This report summarizes the proceedings of the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre’s second national symposium, held in June 2007 in Halifax. The event brought together more than 200 people representing community-based groups, non-profit organization, post-secondary institutes, government, and private-sector groups from across Canada for discussions on the theme The Right to Learn.
The Ontario Literacy Coalition's Workplace/Workforce Literacy Symposium
This paper was written in May 2005 for the Ontario Literacy Coalition's Workplace/Workforce Symposium, which brought together delegates representing business, labour, literacy organizations, adult learners, adult education and training organizations, and government.
A Summary of Focus Groups and Interviews with Adult Learners in Saskatchewan
This document includes:
- An Introduction — Executive Summary
- A Summary of Focus Groups
- Personal Interviews Regarding other SLN Services
- Report Summary
- Appendices
The objective of the feasibility study on literacy and mental health was to enable literacy and mental health agencies to develop strategies to help adults who have serious mental illness, as well as literacy needs, to integrate more successfully into the community as learners, citizens, parents, workers and volunteers.
M.O.V.E. is both a practical tool and a social action model. It starts with a discussion among youth about
their personal issues of violence. The participants work their way through five modules of activities,
carried out over two days each.
