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Saint John Learning Exchange
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This is a literacy education training centre dedicated to empower individuals through education, upgrading, training and employment preparation programs.
SAIT Polytechnic
Category: Essential skills
SAIT is an innovative organization equipping people to compete successfully in the changing world of work by providing relevant, skill-oriented education. Many pre-employment programs lead into an apprenticed trade.
Salt Spring Literacy
Category: Learning
Salt Spring Literacy is a non-profit, volunteer Society dedicated to the enhancement of literacy on Salt Spring Island. Their current focus is on adult literacy, and they offer volunteer tutors trained to work with adults in one-on-one sessions at no charge. Privacy is assured, and the schedules and desires of the learners are taken into consideration during the process.
Samaritan House Ministries (SMH)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
In addition to providing spiritual assistance to people in need, Samaritan House Ministries (SHM) provides adult upgrading for those looking to find employment, obtain their GED or further their education. Literacy is a key component of SMH programs.
SAM Learning Ltd.
Category: Learning
The SAM Learning Method is a tried and tested method of computer-supported study proven to be highly effective. SAM is short for Self-Assessment & Marking.
Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network Inc.
Category: Learning
SALN is a non-profit organization, incorporated November 1, 2002. Governed by a nine-member board of directors, it promotes Aboriginal literacy in Saskatchewan, organizes and facilitates regional Aboriginal literacy forums, provides support for new and existing Aboriginal literacy initiatives, maintains an Aboriginal literacy resource center and ensures ongoing communication with other provincial and national Aboriginal literacy initiatives.
Saskatchewan Action Research Network (SARN)
Category: Learning
The Saskatchewan Action Research Network is a network of practice-based researchers who provide action research training and mentoring, and also provide a repository and clearing house for practice-based research and resources.
Saskatchewan Adult Basic Education Association
Category: Learning
This association is a unified body of adult basic education (ABE) practitioners whose mandate is to examine and promote ABE in Saskatchewan. The site features links to training opportunities, resources, subject councils and information about current issues in the field, instructor certification and protocol in various western and northern jurisdictions.
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
Category: Essential skills
The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour’s information link has information on organizing or joining a union. The federation suggests that by joining together with co-workers employees have a greater ability to be more effective in collectively improving conditions at the workplace.
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST)
Category: Essential skills
The Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) focuses on students and lifelong learning, a catalyst for advancing the social and economic prosperity of Saskatchewan. By delivering training through a variety of methods SIAST provides maximum flexibility to learners while reducing training costs.
Saskatchewan Learning
Category: Learning
Saskatchewan Learning helps create educational, economic and personal opportunity for youths and adults in the province.
Saskatchewan Literacy Network
Category: Learning
This non-profit organization was founded to provide information on adult literacy programs, literacy issues and events.
Saskatoon Literacy Coalition
Category: Learning
The Saskatoon Literacy Coalition Inc. is a group of individuals and representatives from organizations working together to promote literacy.
Saskatoon Open Door Society
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This society’s mandate is to welcome and assist refugees and immigrants to become informed and effective participants in Canadian society. It offers assistance in employment development and language and literacy training, along with many other services that lead to settlement and integration.
SaskNetWork
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The SaskNetWork website helps Saskatchewan residents connect to the resources they need for success in the workplace. It offers information on education and training, career planning, self-employment, the labour market and financial aid. SaskNetWork works closely with several partners to provide its users with the most current and relevant information available.
Sault College - Literacy Educator Certificate Program
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This program is designed to address the training needs of literacy practitioners. It provides an in-depth exploration of key skills, principles, practices, concepts and professional issues involved in literacy work.
SchoolFinder.com
A Canadian education guide to universities, colleges and career colleges. This site allows you to search over 600 schools and find detailed descriptions of admissions requirements, costs, programs, and contact information for each school.
School of Community Government
Category: Essential skills
The School of Community Government is a division of the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. It assists community governments with capacity-building priorities through an integrated approach to training and development. The school provides training and development opportunities to community governments, their staff and organizations that support community governments.
Schreiber/Terrace Bay Adult Learning Centre
Category: Learning
The Schreiber - Terrace Bay Adult Learning Centre offers the following programs to people in the area: information on all adult learning needs; upgrading in reading, writing, and math skills; help learning basic computer skills; Pre-GED upgrading skills, etc.
ScorecardforSkills.com
Category: Essential skills
The Conference Board U.S. created ScorecardforSkills.com, with financial support from the U.S. Department of Education, to help American organizations measure and demonstrate the relationship between their workplace education investments, including workplace basic skills, and measures of organizational performance.
Selkirk College
Category: Learning
Whether you’re fresh out of high school, retired or somewhere in between, Selkirk College has educational options that can accommodate your dreams and aspirations. Take advantage of the wide array of academic, career, vocational and technical programs part-time, full-time or online, that Selkirk has to offer.
Seneca College
Category: Learning
Leading the way in advanced applied education, Seneca College provides students with the tools they need for success now and in the future. Seneca offers a tremendous variety of class sizes and methods of teaching — from in-class lectures and online learning to co-op and field placements.
Seniors Resource Centre
Category: Learning
The Seniors Resource Centre is a non-profit, charitable, voluntary organization administered by a board of directors. As an association, it is dedicated to promoting the independence and well-being of older adults through advocacy, the provision of information, and various programs and services.
Service Canada Education and Training
Category: Essential skills
This Service Canada site provides information about education and training services for Canadians including aboriginal peoples, newcomers to the country, families and children, people with disabilities, veterans, youth and students. The site includes links to information on employment and how to start a business.
Service Canada Training, Career and Worker Information
Category: Essential skills
Service Canada helps workers look at their skills and interests, examine the world of work, make a plan for the future and manage their careers. It also outlines training options and workers’ rights and benefits.
Settlement.org
Category: Learning
This organization offers information and resources for immigrants to Ontario, Canada.
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Sheridan is known for its academic excellence, applied research, and programs taught by dedicated faculty to motivated students in an invigorating environment. It has six academic schools focused on visualization design, digital technologies, e-commerce, advanced manufacturing, community services and corporate training.
SIAST (Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology) - Literacy Programs
Category: Learning
Literacy programs in the five different campuses of SIAST provide students with opportunities to improve their academic skills for entrance into Adult 10 or employment.
Simcoe Muskoka Literacy Network
Category: Learning
This literacy network is a non-profit agency of organizations that provide or have an interest in adult basic education in Simcoe County and Muskoka.
Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council is a non-profit, community-based, client-centred Literacy and Basic Skills Program. The council also operates the Sioux Lookout Learning Centre and Good Learning Anywhere distance delivery programs.
Sir Sandford Flemming College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This college delivers that hard-to-find combination of quality learning and quality of life. It prepares students for apprenticeships and careers in fields such as arts and heritage, law and justice, the trades and skills training.
SkillPlan - BC Construction Industry Skills Improvement Council
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This is a not-for-profit society with an extensive history in workplace education. Involved with essential skills projects with network partners across Canada for more than a decade, SkillPlan is a team of workplace educators who have experience with industry, English as a Second Language learners, people with learning disabilities, and curriculum development.
Skills and Training Information
Category: Essential skills
This website aims to provide employers, employees, job seekers and their support organizations with skills and training information and contacts. A support element of the Australian government's Skilling Australia for the future initiative, this site provides examples of occupations and qualifications that may be used under initiatives such as Australian Apprenticeships and the Productivity Places Program. There are also links to organizations that provide practical assistance.
Skills Canada New Brunswick
Category: Essential skills
Skills Canada New Brunswick is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion of the career possibilities in the trades and technologies. Through provincial Olympic-style competitions, Skills Canada NB helps make these occupations more visible for teachers, youth, parents, industry and the general public.
Skills for Employment, Life and Family
Category: Learning
Among the objectives of this group are : to inform the public of the importance of literacy; to reach out to adults in need of literacy skills; to work with other organizations to meet the community's literacy needs, etc.
Skills for Life in the South West
Category: Essential skills
The Skills for Life site is for everyone interested in improving adult literacy, language and numeracy skills. Raising standards in the basic skills, including reading and writing, speaking and listening, and math, will enable people across the South West (UK) to achieve their potential at work, and within their community, helping to build a vibrant and prosperous economy.
Skills Nova Scotia
Category: Essential skills
The Skills Nova Scotia Framework helps to coordinate skill development activities that support Nova Scotians who are preparing for, finding and maintaining employment. The co-ordination of these activities improves the province’s capacity to create a responsive labour force prepared to deal with work in the changing economy.
Skills PEI
Category: Essential skills
Skills PEI is a division of the Department of Innovation and Advanced Learning. It was established to manage the delivery of training and skills development programming under the Canada-PEI Labour Market Development Agreement. This website features programs for job seekers and programs for organizations.
Social and Holistic Approach to Numeracy
Category: Learning
This website was prepared as part of a two-year project led by the Labour Education Centre in partnership with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Workplace Education Manitoba. Features include sample activities developed by practitioners and the team leading the project in addition to practitioner and learner feedback on the benefits and challenges of using this approach to numeracy.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is an arm’s-length federal agency that promotes and supports university-based research and training in the social sciences and humanities. SSHRC-funded research fuels innovative thinking about real life issues, including the economy, working, education, health care, the environment, immigration, globalization and language.
Société éducative de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard
Category: Learning
This is an organization that gives adult francophones on Prince Edward Island access to a French educational system. It gathers together representatives of economic, educational and community institutions.
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Category: Essential skills
SHRM serves the needs of the human resource management professional by providing essential and comprehensive resources. In addition, the society is committed to advancing the human resource profession and the capabilities of all human resource professionals to ensure that HR is an essential and effective partner in developing and executing organizational strategy.
SOFAD
Category: Learning
The mission of SOFAD (Société de formation à distance des commissions scolaires du Québec) is to provide school boards with printed and online learning materials, thus helping them meet their needs stemming from the diversification of places, methods and courses of study, and to make its expertise available to other networks and organizations. SOFAD’s services are intended for francophone and anglophone school boards and the schools under their jurisdiction.
SolutionsNB.ca
Category: Essential skills
New Brunswick employers wanting to find solutions to their skilled labour shortage might benefit from a visit to SolutionsNB.ca. This online resource outlines the benefits of hiring newcomers. It provides links to credential/ competency assessment services and language training, and a guide to helping newcomers settle in the province.
Sooke School District Community Education
Category: Learning
Sooke School District Community Education has been providing adult literacy and upgrading programs for the past 15 years. A Volunteer Tutor Program was also established. Since that time, Community Education has grown into an adult secondary school, providing from basic literacy to grade 12 for adults in the Victoria area.
South-east Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
Category: Learning
South-east Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services is a non-profit, charitable agency that serves and advocates on behalf of the Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing community in south-eastern New Brunswick. They empower their clients to live independently and productively, with full access to opportunities that are readily available to persons who hear.
Southern Alberta Institute of technology: Continuing Education - Academic cornerstone
Category: Learning
Whether your goal is to launch a new career, upgrade your knowledge and skills or pursue one of your interests, SAIT can help you to achieve your dreams. If you don't know where to begin, are returning to learning after many years, or if English isn't your first language start with our Academic Cornerstones.
South Shore Reading Council
Category: Learning
The South Shore Reading Council is a not-for-profit volunteer literacy organization in the Montreal South Shore area. They are committed to teaching basic English reading, writing and life skills to adult, youth and family learners and also to providing on-going professional development for tutors and other members.
Spotlight on Learning
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This site is designed to promote and support professional development and learning for the literacy and essential skills field in Canada. You will find training resources shared at the Spotlight on Learning conference (held in October 2010) and updates on new tools and learning from and beyond the field.
Stardale Women's Group Inc. Foundation©
Category: Learning
Stardale is a learning and healing center for aboriginal women and women of poverty. Developed by the Stardale Women's Group Inc. Foundation, the Center opened its doors for service in Melfort, in 1998, and serves the communities in Northern Saskatchewan.
Statistics Canada
Categories: Labour market, Learning
Statistics Canada, a member of the Industry Portfolio, produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their country — its population, resources, economy, society and culture.
St. Christopher House Adult Literacy Program
Category: Learning
The purpose of this program is to bring together diverse people from the west end of Toronto to provide basic literacy learning and tutoring opportunities for English-speaking adults.
St. Clair College
Category: Learning
St. Clair College offers two and three-year diploma programs in technology, trades, business, hospitality/tourism, health sciences, international business, human services, media communications and general arts and science. Many programs offer coop and apprenticeship opportunities that provide students with hands-on experience.
Stella Burry Community Services (SBCS)
Category: Essential skills
Stella Burry Community Services (SBCS) is a leading social services agency in St. John’s that provides programs for adults and youth who have experienced personal setbacks due to mental health issues, addiction, poverty or lack of literacy and essential skills. SBCS offers three unique employment preparation programs that meet the needs of participants, depending on where they are on the journey back to the workplace.
Steps for Success
Category: Essential skills
Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Newfoundland Labrador, in partnership with Random North Development Association, has launched Steps for Success: Cultivating a Learning Culture. The initiative has four components: human resources management, essential skills and peer mentorship for companies, in addition to a provincial HR team to develop a provincial HR strategy for the manufacturing and value-added sector.
Stevenson-Britannia Adult Literacy Program Inc.
Category: Learning
The Stevenson-Britannia Adult Literacy Program, Inc. is a non-profit, charitable organization that has been providing learning opportunities for adults in St. James and surrounding communities for the past ten years.
St. Lawrence College
Category: Learning
St. Lawrence College provides practical, hands-on education to over 5,000 full-time students annually in the following areas of study: Applied Arts and General Studies, Business, Social and Community Services, Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships, etc. Part-time studies and customized training are also offered.
St. Lewis Homepage
Category: Learning
This site is an all-encompassing home page for St. Lewis, Labrador. It provides information on local recreation, attractions, education, businesses and services.
Stó:Lō Aboriginal Skills & Employment Training (SASET)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
SASET provides employment services and training programs throughout the Fraser Valley. Whether you are a community member, an employer, a learner or a practitioner, the SASET website features supports to assist you in integrating essential skills into your workplace or life.
Storysacks
Not every parent finds it easy to read stories but, with the supporting materials a Storysack offers, all parents can successfully share books with their child at a variety of levels.
Storysacks CANADA
Category: Learning
Storysacks are a fun, exciting literacy activity for parents and children to share. They can be used anywhere: in homes, libraries, schools, churches, children's groups, prisons, volunteer organizations - basically any place where children and adults are together.
STP: Skills Training Partnership
Category: Essential skills
A Skills Training Partnership is a unique project designed to assist employers in developing training programs that prepare qualified job seekers with disabilities for employment. A creation of the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work, this website offers employers, community agencies and persons with disabilities the tools needed for getting started, information about best practices and project/job search support.
Studentawards.com
Category: Learning
This free scholarship search tool helps bridge the gap between financially needy students and available money. Studentawards.com matches a student's profile with financial awards he/she is eligible for (scholarships, bursaries, etc.) and provides information on application details and procedures.
Students for Literacy at MUN
Category: Learning
This is a campus-based organization providing adults and children of the community with an opportunity to improve their reading, writing, and arithmetic skills. As a student based organization, it also gives Memorial students an opportunity to explore literacy issues in Canada and gain experience in tutoring others. The program was founded by Frontier College, and is affiliated with 38 other university campus programs across Canada.
Success through Skills
Category: Essential skills
Success through Skills, the skills strategy for Northern Ireland, provides an overarching framework for the development of skills in that country. The website has valuable information for those who are unemployed, have recently left school or who want to improve their literacy, numeracy or IT skills. It has a section specifically for employers who want to develop the skills of their employees.
Superior North Literacy
Category: Learning
Their services include adult literacy training from the basic level up to and including the GED program.
System for Adult Education Support (SABES)
Category: Essential skills
SABES promotes high quality adult basic education services through training, support, and resources that improve the skills and knowledge of practitioners and strengthen programs. It achieves this mission by providing staff development that stresses participation, reflection, and innovation; discovering and sharing relevant research and effective practices; collaborating with other organizations and agencies; and remaining responsive to the field and to adult learners.
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