National Adult Literacy Database

Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. (Ottawa time)

In the spirit of engaging employers in the essential skills dialogue, OLES invites you to participate in this free webinar opportunity that combines the web-based viewing of PowerPoint presentations with the interactivity and accessibility of an audio teleconference.

This webinar will bring together a myriad of private sector stakeholders to discuss the importance of workplace essential skills in today’s knowledge-based economy, especially for populations who face particular literacy and essential skills challenges (such as Aboriginal communities, immigrants, and official language minority communities), who will make up a significant part of the future labour force. Highlights of the webinar will include a presentation on the business case for investing in essential skills, a summary of OLES’s partnership with Industry Canada’s Canada Business Network, and an overview of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) Association’s Essential Skills through Safety and Health project.

While workplace stakeholders will be a focus for this webinar in both subject matter and target audience, other people and organizations working in literacy and essential skills are welcome to participate.

Presenters

Lindsey McIntosh is a policy analyst with OLES. She has been engaged in the literacy and essential skills field since joining HRSDC in 2007 and she is currently leading OLES's efforts in improving the essential skills of working Canadians by engaging employers in the essential skills dialogue.

Johanna Faulk is the national program director for Essential Skills through Safety and Health, the two-year project led by CME and funded by OLES. She is an adult educator with experience as a senior training and development manager in aerospace manufacturing and in provincial government as a program manager for adult education and adult literacy/ESL programming. 

The presentations will take approximately 45 minutes, followed by a question and answer period of equal length. Separate English and French audio channels will be available.

Registration

If interested in access for this webinar, please send an e-mail by opening the following link:

NC-OLES_WEBINARS-WEBINAIRES_DU_BACE-GD@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca.

Please note this is an e-mail address, not a link to a website. If the link does not open automatically, you may copy it into your address bar. If you are still having trouble, you are welcome to send an e-mail directly to alice.reismartins@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca. 

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