This week's "Literacy" in The Wrap
April 6, 2011
John Howard Society programs help clients improve their skills
The Pre-Employment Training programs at the John Howard Society of Ottawa help individuals to improve their skills to prepare for employment or to enter college and university programs. While anyone may attend these programs, many JHS clients face mental health issues, addictions, homelessness, and/or are justice-involved. The on-site programs, Skills Plus and ACElinks, a high school equivalency program, have been very successful at aiding many individuals to obtain meaningful employment or further education and training.
JHS discovered that not everyone was able to make the commitments needed or even get to the office to participate in their programs, so they created programs to be run in the community. In 2006 they developed the first outreach literacy program to provide skills training in reading, writing, math and computers at local homeless shelters and dropin centres. These programs grew to help people prepare for employment and to develop essential life skills, such as budgeting and assertive communication. They filled an important service gap in the community, allowing individuals who were not ready for formal programs to develop their skills and confidence.
>> Read more (Link to the Ottawa Citizen website)
Past Wrap Articles:
CODE has started contributing regular literacy-themed articles in a new Ottawa Citizen feature called “The Wrap” - a four-page pull-out section delivered Wednesdays, as part of the Ottawa Citizen’s Flyer Force delivery, and Fridays, to home delivery subscribers!
The column will be shared with other literacy organizations and partners of CODE and is a wonderful opportunity for CODE to share its literacy stories.
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Mar. 23 | Realize your potential with Algonquin's Academic Upgrading program | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
| Mar. 9 | Community involvement in family literacy | Online Ottawa Citizen | ||
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Feb. 20 | Buckets of kindness 'Small school with big heart' helps students in Haiti and Malawi' | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
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Feb. 16 | Ottawa students join thousands across Canada in sending school supplies to Africa and the Caribbean | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
| Feb. 9 | Social media for writers: Think about your goals | Online Ottawa Citizen | ||
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Feb. 2 | Promoting African books in Africa and Canada | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
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Jan. 26 | Read.learn.live... and dare to care | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
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Jan. 26 | Celebrate Family Literacy Day 2011 | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
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Jan. 19 | A New Year's resolution with lifelong impact -increase your literacy skills | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
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Jan.12 | Improving literacy with technology | Online Ottawa Citizen | |
| Jan.5 | Why digital literacy matters to newcomers | Online Ottawa Citizen | ||
| Dec. 30 | From holistic literacy methodology to dreamcatchers | Online Ottawa Citizen | ||
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Dec. 23 | Reading Liberia | ||
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Dec. 15 | A new partnership for literacy | ||
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Dec. 8 | When you wish upon a star... great things can happen! | ||
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Dec. 1 | Mali, First Avenue Public School linked by 'doing something for Phie' | ||
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Nov. 10 | Democracy and Education- A Tale of Two Organizations | ||
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Nov 3 | Learning at work changes lives | ||
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Oct 27 | Words and Water: A canadian partnership creating impact in Ethiopia | ||
| Oct 20 | Mothers of Literacy support daughters' education | |||
| Oct 13 | IBBY Canada helps children share books around the world | |||
| Oct 6 | The Best is Yet to Come | |||
| Sept 29 | TD Summer Reading Club | |||
| Sept 22 | Education for all: A goal worth having and a promise worth keeping | |||
| Sept 15 | we(e) press | |||
| Sept 8 | Ottawa Mother of Four Conquers Kilimanjaro for Literacy | Online Ottawa Citizen | ||
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Sept 1 | Projectcode.ca Gets Youth Spreading the Word about Literacy | ||
