Publications

• Breakthrough to Math
• Cambridge GED
• Conference Board of Canada Employability Skills
• Connections
• Damn Good Resume
• Employability Skills Portfolio (book and video, available from Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce)
• Its Your Right
• Job Seekers Handbook: A Guide for Literacy and ESL Learners (available from Employment Projects for Women, Winnipeg, 1995)
• Power Reading Practical Manual for Job Hunters
• WESCANA: Materials for low level literacy
• What Colour Is Your Parachute?

Authentic Literacy Materials

• Employment insurance forms
• Employment Standards (workbook)
• Company policies and procedures (manuals)
• Newspapers

Outside Speakers

• Employment Connections
• Speakers' Bureau (developed by Regional Coordinators for Literacy Partners of Manitoba)
• Business people

Technology

• Word Perfect 6.1 formats for resumes, etc.
• Netscape searches for career-oriented materials
• Red River Community College/Assiniboine Community College video tape libraries for career-oriented materials

* This compiled list of resources resulted from a meeting on April 17, 1997 between representatives from adult literacy programs who were involved with providing employability-related programming for EDP (Employment Development Programs and Community Partnerships clientele and staff from the provincial Adult Literacy and Continuing Education department. The list is by no means complete. It is intended as a representation of the types of resources and supportive curricula that is used in these programs for teaching literacy and employability. Used with permission from Adult Literacy and Continuing Education.