• partner and establish a relationship with local banks, libraries, bus services, retail, and grocery shopping centres

• win/win strategic alliances with corporate partners can provide learners access to technology and interaction with modern workplace environments

Successful programs:

• use literacy as a bridge to learner participation in the broader community

• have key community members brought in to demonstrate support

• have co-operation of local community agencies and businesses

• alliances with YMCA, local reading clubs, library programs, or developing a new reading club within a sheltered environment

• partnerships would allow the learner a venue to participate in literacy work during the transition times (learner has progressed as far as he/ she can go, yet is not ready to abandon literacy learning)

Successful programs:

• have umbrella agencies that are able to work as facilitator/ clearing house for regional information with a number of service bodies

• have positive outcomes including enhanced training opportunities and avoidance of overlapping

• training could be made available to staff and volunteers, as well as persons well known to the learners

Successful programs:

• use of resources such as the "Literacy Preparation Project for Adults with Developmental Disabilities" by Ken Beck and Patricia Hatt