An "Alberta's Promise"
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Wagon presentation at the EPCOR Centre, April 1, 2005. (l to r) Honourable
Heather Forsyth, our own Laureen MacKenzie, Premier Ralph Klein & Colleen
Klein. In this issue, we celebrate our partnership with Alberta's Promise, a movement
by caring community partners to create opportunities for our children and
youth to be successful, happy and healthy. Alberta's Promise facilitates
partnerships between communities, businesses, service clubs, foundations
and agencies so that they may work together to direct more resources to
benefit our children and youth. As indicated on the Alberta's Promise
website, "Alberta's Promise celebrates successes and recognizes
Partnerships to motivate all Albertans to raise awareness of the importance
of investing in Alberta's children and youth." Through this initiative
we are brushing shoulders with those businesses and communities who believe,
like we do, that our best investment is in the education and support of
those who will lead us in the future. Our involvement in this
partnership fits nicely into FESA's priority for 2005-6, i.e. Securing
Our Future. Both the Board and Staff are committed to developing a
solid foundation on which to construct the support for trainers, facilitators,
and agencies that wish to create awareness of LAPS and to implement
the program in their communities. We have already secured over $100,000
to date to assist a variety of LAPS initiatives in Western Canada.
We are going to be just as aggressive in searching for funds to work
in the East.
Our belief that the secret weapon required
to ensure that children reach their potential is well informed,
confident parents who are modeling a love of literacy, drives this
priority. This foundational work is the key to a Canada in which
a person can achieve his/her personal best. FESA's new mission
statement reads:
"All FESA personnel will
work together and with community partners locally and nationally
to provide services for multi-barriered, isolated learners which
are respectful
of their learning styles and cultural needs, literacy and parenting
needs, and which encourage their children's
language and literacy development so that all may  achieve
their emotional, spiritual, physical, and mental capacity."
Together we can achieve our goals – we promise! |
