Adult Basic Education Association (ABEA)

This report outlines the second phase of a project designed to build the coordination capacity of Ontario’s regional literacy networks, and to further develop partnerships among service delivery agencies that provide literacy and language programming.

This project grew out of a forum held in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1999, which raised concerns about gaps in literacy services to specific groups of people. One such group identified at the forum was young people who had left the school system before graduating.

This manual was designed to help Ontario’s Learning Networks with the implementation of brokering services for Essential Skills programs.

This manual is designed to help employers implement Essential Skills training in the workplace.

The authors list the nine Essential Skills and provide practical examples of each one. They also explain how improving employees’ skills can help a company’s bottom line.

The author of this document looks at the value of implementing independent, common assessment services in the literacy field, with a specific focus on the Educational Essential Skills Assessment (EESA), a tool developed by the Adult Basic Education Association of Hamilton-Wentworth (ABEA) in Ontario.