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Alberta websites
Provincial coalition
Literacy Alberta
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Literacy Alberta is a provincial not-for-profit charitable coalition of over 300 members working to raise literacy levels in Alberta.
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Alberta Correctional Education Association
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Alberta Correctional Education Association (ACEA) is dedicated to the academic, vocational, and personal development of offenders and the professional enhancement of Association members.
Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The new Ministry of Enterprise and Advanced Education is responsible for post-secondary education, apprenticeship and trades, economic development, research and innovation, adult learning, and labour force development. The ministry also oversees immigration and labour attraction, providing information about the immigration process for Canada and Alberta, as well as about programs and services designed to assist immigrants before and after they arrive.
Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS)
Category: Essential skills
The Alberta Learning Information Service is one of Alberta’s leading online sources for career, learning and employment information and services. The site provides information to help Albertans with career planning, post-secondary education and training, educational funding, the job search, labour market trends and workplace issues.
Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES)
Category: Essential skills
Since 1989, AWES has been designing and delivering learning solutions in Alberta. Its primary mandate is enabling employees and organizations to excel through essential skills initiatives. It could be in the vital skills of numeracy, reading, writing, or document and computer use, or in the key abilities of working with others, oral communication, thinking or continuous learning.
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Battle River Training Foundation
Category: Essential skills
The Battle River Training Foundation helps rural Albertans access college credit courses in Flagstaff County and east central Alberta. Whether at home online, with an online group or in a classroom setting, representatives will help you identify your learning options and register with the course provider.
Bow Valley College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Bow Valley College's Academic Upgrading courses fit students' schedule and their personal responsibilities. Students can get credit for life and work experience, and the college will help develop a learner plan that maps the best way to meet students' academic goals.
BVCWorks
Category: Essential skills
BVCWorks is a business unit of Bow Valley College. Its goal is to meet local labour market and learner/client needs by connecting employers to workers. Services include worker recruitment for employers, access to job postings for students and alumni, and skills testing for clients and community members.
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Calgary Homeless Foundation
Category: Learning
Information and resources brought to you by Calgary Homeless Foundation. This site contains a library of resources, linkages to Calgary agencies and current events within the community.
Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association (CIWA)
Category: Essential skills
The Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association delivers professional services that facilitate the integration and full participation of women and their families in the community. The services include language instruction, employment services, parenting programs, family conflict support and volunteer development.
Calgary Learning Centre
Category: Learning
The CLC is a non-profit society which provides activities that are designed to advance knowledge and improve services for people of all ages with learning problems.
Calgary Learns
Category: Learning
The purpose of Calgary Learns is to support the Calgary community by providing accessible and innovative lifelong learning opportunities for adults facing barriers.
Calgary Public Library
Category: Learning
With many locations throughout the area, the Calgary Public Library has collections ranging from Business Services to Kids' Stuff and Multilanguage Materials to Special Needs.
Calgary Reads
Category: Learning
The mission of this organisation is to improve the confidence and ability of struggling young readers and promote literacy as a benefit to our community.
Camrose Adult Learning Council
Category: Learning
This council provides lifelong learning opportunities for Camrose and area adults, contributing to their social, economic, and cultural development as individuals and members of the greater Camrose community.
Centre for Excellence in Intercultural Education
Category: Learning
The Centre for Excellence in Intercultural Education at NorQuest College creates resources to support intercultural competence and to facilitate immigrant integration. As a learning organization, it integrates developing knowledge into the training and educational products it creates.
Centre for Family Literacy
Category: Learning
The Centre for Family Literacy believes that literacy skills develop in families first. Its focus is on developing and delivering family and adult literacy programs; training family literacy professionals; and serving as an information and program resource.
Community Learning Network
Category: Learning
The Community Learning Network (CLN) is a provincial not-for-profit organization that provides support, professional development, resources and networking opportunities to Alberta’s 81 Community Adult Learning Councils and their staff. CLN works with the Community Programs Branch of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology to enable councils to address adult learning needs in the communities they serve.
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Directions for Immigrants in Trades and Professional Careers
Category: Essential skills
This website is a reference tool for skilled immigrants looking to restart their career in regulated professions. It has information about the accreditation process, tips and links to other services and resources in Calgary. Users gain an understanding of what employers are looking for and learn what trades and professions are in demand in Calgary.
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Edmonton Community Adult Learning Association (ECALA)
Category: Learning
ECALA actively engages in the community by hosting adult education focus groups on a variety of topics and by partnering on a variety of events, for example: International Literacy Day. They are partners in the development, coordination and provision of learning opportunities for adult learners with barriers in Edmonton.
Edmonton Public Library
Category: Learning
Some of the services offered at the Edmonton Public Library are : Information Services, Programmes and Events, Children's Services, Home Service and Enhanced Access, etc. Literacy and ESL (English as a Second Language) resources are available at all branches of the Library. These resources are available in a variety of formats - book(s), cassette(s), and videos.
Edson & District Community Learning Society
Category: Learning
A group of individuals, agencies and local organizations who work as a coordinating body in identifying and fulfilling the learning needs of the adults in the community.
English Express: A website for adult learners
Category: Learning
This website for adult learners has articles from a newspaper called English Express, where you can read or print articles. You can also listen and read along. You can read about people, animals and holidays, or about news stories. It also has a section for teachers and tutors.
ESL Literacy Network
Category: Learning
The ESL Literacy Network is an innovative website that responds to the needs of Learners with Interrupted Formal Education (LIFE) and addresses the professional development needs of ESL literacy practitioners in Alberta. Funded by Alberta Employment and Immigration, this site showcases comprehensive, research-based information, resources and tools.
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Families First Society
Category: Learning
This society works in partnership with many community agencies to offer a variety of programs and services that promote positive parenting and early childhood development to families with young children ages 0-6 years. It offers parent education, programs for young children to learn and play, family support services, etc.
Further Education Society of Alberta
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Further Education Society of Alberta (FESA) is a registered charitable organization whose vision is to provide lifelong learning opportunities to those who will benefit from education and training. With the assistance of supportive community partners, FESA is able to reach these individuals through offering free, locally-based programs.
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Homeless Awareness Calgary
Category: Learning
The goal of is to promote awareness about the issues relating to homelessness in the city of Calgary. This is being done through an annual awareness campaign during Homeless Awareness Week and through a series of on-going educational and promotional initiatives.
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Innovative Communities Connecting & Networking (iCCAN)
Category: Learning
The Innovative Communities Connecting and Networking (iCCAN) project is harnessing the power of the SuperNet and videoconferencing to enable lifelong learning and collaboration among Alberta’s not-for-profit organizations, including adult learning and literacy groups. Partners behind iCCAN are the Community Learning Network, Literacy Alberta and Volunteer Alberta.
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John Howard Society of Alberta
Category: Learning
This is a society which offers crime prevention programs and activities for offenders and their families, ex-offenders, young persons and the public.
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Keyano College: Academic Upgrading
Category: Learning
The Academic Upgrading Program at Keyano College includes, among others: Academic Foundations with Literacy to Grade 9, where the skills learned will help adults to continue their education at the high school level, or prepare for employment. Another program, the College Preparation program is tailored to meet the needs of adults who wish to upgrade their academic education.
Kneehill Adult Learning Society
Category: Learning
This organization offers adult and family literacy programs. The READ Projects help families from all walks of life improve their reading, writing, and math skills. Tutors and adults work one-on-one or in small groups in a comfortable, encouraging environment. Family programs are offered in-home and in small groups. All their services are free and confidential.
Knowledge and Employability Studio
Category: Essential skills
The main lobby of this virtual studio from Alberta Education contains program updates, contact information, a video introduction and a virtual tour of the premises. The ministry gratefully acknowledges the many teachers, individuals and groups who provided advice and feedback over the course of development of this website including the Alberta Education Development Team. (Note copyright at bottom left of front page.)
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Lakeland College : Academic Upgrading
Category: Learning
This college offers courses for people who want to update their skills. Participants in the program can work toward their high school equivalency. Mature students have the opportunity to continue their education, to further their educational pursuits.
Learning Centre Literacy Association, The
Category: Learning
The Learning Centre Literacy Association is a non-profit organization that engages people in community-based learning and literacy development that further enables them to make positive changes for themselves and their communities.
Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta
Category: Learning
The Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta (LDAA) is a registered charity and non-profit organization of parents, professionals and other concerned people dedicated to maximizing the potential of people with learning disabilities.
Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta - Calgary Chapter
Category: Learning
The Calgary Chapter is a regional unit affiliated provincially (LDAA) and nationally (LDAC) with a network of agencies seeking to advance the education and well-being of children and adults with learning disabilities, who have been classified as having normal or potentially normal intelligence.
Learning Outcomes/ ESL Literacy Network
Category: Learning
This new resource, developed by Bow Valley College, is designed to help ESL literacy curriculum designers and practitioners develop effective and responsive curricula. The learning outcomes database will help you set learning outcomes for your ESL literacy program and classroom. The ESL Literacy Curriculum Framework provides learning outcomes in four strands: reading, writing, literacy strategies and habits of mind.
Literacy Alberta
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Literacy Alberta is a provincial not-for-profit charitable coalition of over 300 members working to raise literacy levels in Alberta.
Literacy For Life Foundation
Category: Learning
This Foundation's vision is to create a "safe" place in the Municipal District of Foothills in Alberta, where literacy is valued as a resource for everyday living and people have access to learning and literacy opportunities.
Lloydminster Learning Council Association
Category: Learning
The association believes that people need opportunities for lifelong learning in order to enhance quality of life. Some of the goals are to: offer a coordinated, comprehensive program of part-time, non-credit educational experiences; identify educational needs within the city of Lloydminster and the immediate vicinity; and encourage inter-agency cooperation and coordination in further education programming.
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Medicine Hat College
Category: Learning
From its award-winning library and child development centre, to the many services available for academic support, career assistance, and health and wellness, MHC has everything you need to succeed.
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Newspapers in Education - Calgary Herald
Category: Learning
This is the online gateway to Calgary. It provides job and marketplace information, news, telephone directory, web search, etc.
nextSteps.org
Category: Essential skills
This unique career-development and job-finding resource for youth offers features that include career profiles, video highlights, Employer Spotlight of the Month, and the steps to success: career planning, job seeking and career maintenance. The website is funded by the City of Calgary, the Government of Alberta and Industry Canada.
NorQuest College: Continuing Education - Academic Upgrading
Category: Learning
The NorQuest College experience enables adult students to embrace new challenges and overcome obstacles. With daytime and evening classes, work experience opportunities, and individualized learning plans, NorQuest gives students more options in achieving their employment and educational goals.
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)
Category: Essential skills
A NAIT education creates opportunities for students to gain practical skills that are in demand and to use the latest technology. Students also make industry contacts and gain relevant work experience that will lead to employment in Alberta’s industries.
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Olds College: Academic Upgrading
Category: Learning
Olds College Academic Upgrading program offers a wide range of pre-high school and high school level courses. Students receive one-on-one attention in small classes so they are prepared for skills training programs at technical institutes, colleges and universities, or direct employment.
Opportunities for Women in Construction
Category: Essential skills
This program is presented by the organization Women Building Futures to help women choose and prepare for a successful career in the construction industry. Information sessions explore the opportunities and challenges associated with construction work. You'll learn about the variety of jobs available, the demand for these jobs, and how to get the training you may need to get your new career started.
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Paintearth Community Adult Learning Council (PCALC)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
PCALC is growing and changing to meet the needs of adult learners in the County of Paintearth, Alberta. Its current offerings include programs in adult basic skills, English language learning, family literacy, workplace education and senior living.
Pathways Employment Program
Category: Essential skills
Calgary’s Pathways Employment Program provides individuals 18 years of age and older with any diagnosed disability the resources they need to get into the workforce. Professional workshops offer participants additional support to help them advance their knowledge, gain confidence, make valuable connections and work to become self-sustaining, independent adults.
Pincher Creek Community Adult Learning Council
Category: Learning
Members of the Pincher Creek Community Adult Learning Council are committed to planning and promoting programming so you can access lifelong learning opportunities in your home community. Create and fulfill your educational, fitness, wellness, employment or recreational goals by first viewing the course offerings.
Portage College
Category: Learning
Portage College offers a wide range of programs that will allow you to gain all the skills, knowledge and, in most cases, practical experience you need to start a career path.
Program for Adult Learning (PAL)
Category: Learning
PAL assists adult learners to improve their reading, writing, basic math or English conversation skills through free, individualized tutoring and small group classes. Literacy services are also available to increase adult literacy and family literacy awareness, partnerships and projects throughout the Lac La Biche region.
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Rainbow Literacy Society
Category: Learning
The mission of this organization is to provide literacy through all ages and stages by providing various programs in Vulcan County, Alberta.
Red Deer College : Adult Basic Education
Category: Learning
The ABE program offers full-time and part-time studies in : Basic academic preparation (upgrading) - Reading/Writing, Math, Canadian Studies/Employability Skills; GED Preparation; Pre-Apprentice Academics.
Robertson College
Category: Essential skills
Individuals looking to change their career and improve their future in as little as three months may find a career education from Robertson College is what they need to succeed. With campuses in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, and Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Robertson College offers programs in business, information technology and health care.
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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.
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.
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Taber and District Community Adult Learning Association
Category: Learning
The goals of this organisation are (among others) : to improve the accessibility of learning opportunities in Alberta's communities, especially for those individuals with special needs or barriers to learning; to provide opportunities for Albertans to acquire foundation skills such as Literacy and English as a Second Language, etc.
TOWES (Test of Workplace Essential Skills)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The TOWES (Test of Workplace Essential Skills) department at Bow Valley College offers valid, reliable and effective essential skills solutions for organizations and individuals looking to assess, improve and increase awareness of essential skills.
Tradesecrets
Category: Essential skills
This Government of Alberta apprenticeship and industry training website promotes world-class skills and standards delivered by an industry-driven system. The site includes introductory information for anyone interested in learning a trade in Alberta and special reference resources for educators, parents and aboriginal peoples.
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Wainwright & District Council for Adult Lifelong Learning
Category: Learning
The Wainwright & District Council for Adult Lifelong Learning is one of 83 Adult Learning Councils in Alberta. Its adult learning and family literacy programs are listed according to learning objective – employability, adult literacy, community enhancement – and general interest. Using a client-centred approach, the organization forms and maintains partnerships that respond to community educational needs, provides opportunities for teachers and learners facing barriers and advocates adult literacy in the community.
Widening Access for Adult Literacies
Category: Learning
This website is a way to share resources from the Widening Access for Adult Literacies project. Project partners explored ways to make it easier for adults with literacy challenges to access community resources.
Women Building Futures (WBF)
Category: Essential skills
Women Building Futures is a registered, not-for-profit, charitable organization that works to help women build better lives and achieve economic independence through training, employment and mentorship. Graduates make excellent tradespeople, and through them WBF gives companies new competencies and new work resources.
Work and Learning Network (WLN)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Based at the University of Alberta, WLN promotes research and dialogue about learning in the changing domains of work. Interested researchers, educators, academic and government representatives are welcome to join.
WORKink
Category: Essential skills
WORKink is an extensive online career development and employment portal for Canadians with disabilities. The site provides job search tools, career guidance and resources pertaining to education and employment. Whether you are a job-seeker, employer or career practitioner, WORKink outlines options and materials that are available to help you meet your needs.
Writing Out Loud
Category: Learning
Writing Out Loud was written in 1997 as part of a final report for a provincially and federally funded literacy and life skills project called Chapters.
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