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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.
Parent-Child Mother Goose Program
Category: Learning
This program is a group experience for parents/caregivers and their babies and young children, focusing on the pleasure and power of using oral rhymes, songs and stories together.
Parenting for a Literate Community
Category: Learning
This project involves working with Early Intervention and Family Resource staff to strengthen the literacy development of priority pre-school children and their parents. The goal is to work within the existing infrastructure to strengthen the literacies of home and centre based programs and to nurture a more coordinated approach to effective literacy education.
Parkdale Project Read
Category: Learning
Project Read helps people realize their learning goals by providing free literacy services in a supportive community. They work with English-speaking adults who want to learn to read, write, or use basic math or computer skills.
Partner Assisted Learning
Category: Learning
Partner Assisted Learning (PAL) is a FREE program based in Kamloops, that offers adults one-to-one help in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Volunteer tutors are matched with learners and typically meet once a week for an hour.
Partnerships in Learning
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This website looks at the learning paths of workers with low literacy skills in different types of workplace education programs across Canada. The site features seven case studies written by field researchers and whose stories represent the relatedness of formal and informal training for workers with low skills. The section Fostering Partnership Development examines strategies used to engage business, labour, literacy practitioners and provincial/ territorial governments.
Partners in Employment
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Partners in Employment is a not-for-profit organization that assists people in Huron and Perth counties to find and keep employment. The organization has three employment resource centres: Stratford, Listowel and St.Marys, and offers a one-on-one job search service throughout Huron and Perth counties.
Peel-Halton-Dufferin Adult Learning Network
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Peel-Halton-Dufferin Adult Learning Network provides service coordination to local literacy and adult learning organizations in Peel, Halton and Dufferin. The network helps instructors provide better quality education to adult learners by offering professional development, communications and networking opportunities.
PEI Literacy Alliance
Category: Learning
This group promotes provincial and national awareness of literacy activities and concerns. It also creates partnerships to develop various useful projects.
PEI Reads
Category: Learning
This website contains information for parents, teachers and students on how children learn to read, how to encourage reading at home, and recommended reading for students at various reading levels.
People, Words & Change
Category: Learning
People, Words & Change is a non-profit literacy organization for adults in the Ottawa region. Through volunteer tutors, they have been helping adults read and write better since 1978.
PGI Nova Scotia Golf Tournament for Literacy
Category: Learning
This site contains information on Nova Scotia's PGI golf tournament.
PGIs for Literacy
Category: Learning
The Peter Gzowski Invitationals (PGIs) for Literacy were founded by the late Canadian broadcaster and journalist Peter Gzowski. His goals were to raise much-needed resources for the thousands of adult learners who struggle with the challenge of low literacy, and have a lot of fun in the process. Held annually in every province and territory, the PGIs have raised more than $12 million net since 1986.
Pictou County Continuous Learning Association
Category: Learning
The mission of this non-profit organization is to provide academic upgrading to adults of Pictou County, to assist adults who want to develop skills for lifelong learning - so they can participate more fully at home, in the workplace, and in their community and to promote the awareness and importance of literacy in the area.
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.
Plain Language Partners
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Plain Language Partners offers workplace services considering the special needs of the legal and justice communities to help increase efficiency, productivity and communication effectiveness.
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.
Portage Learning & Literacy Centre
Category: Learning
Portage Learning & Literacy Centre is a non-profit, charitable organization that provides academic, literacy and employment programs for the public in addition to settlement services and English as an Additional Language classes for newcomers.
PORT CARES Educational Resource Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The PORT CARES Educational Resource Centre provides skills training to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to develop the reading, writing, mathematics and computer skills necessary to function more effectively in their personal, community and work lives.
Port Hawkesbury Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The Port Hawkesbury Literacy Council is a non-profit organization incorporated under the Nova Scotia Societies Act in February of 1999. It promotes lifelong learning, literacy networking and awareness, and encourages and supports literacy initiatives.
Premier's Council on the Status of Disabled Persons
Category: Learning
This Council is a body for consultation and study which was created to advise the provincial government and the general public on matters relating to the status of persons with disabilities. The Council reports directly to the Premier of New Brunswick.
Prince Albert Literacy Network
Category: Learning
PALN is a group of agencies, interested citizens and learners that promotes and supports adult literacy and family literacy in the Prince Albert community.
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.
Program Read
Category: Learning
Program Read helps adult learners in Sault Ste. Marie to improve their reading, writing, spelling, math, and basic computer skills.
Project Aspiro
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Project Aspiro is a comprehensive career planning and employment resource for individuals who are blind or partially sighted. You’ll find everything you need to achieve your career goals including career planning advice, information about education, profiles of people enjoying meaningful careers, and much more. There’s also a range of valuable information for friends and family, service providers and employers.
Project Literacy Kelowna Society
Category: Learning
Project Literacy is a non-profit organization offering one-to-one tutoring to adults who face literacy challenges.
Project Love
Category: Learning
CODE's Project Love is a great opportunity for Canadians to act as global citizens by sending much-needed educational materials to students and teachers in developing countries. The program talks to young people about international development in terms they can understand. And it gives them a hands-on activity to help their global neighbours their own age.
Project READ Literacy Network
Category: Learning
Project READ Literacy Network is committed to: providing coordination, referrals, advocacy, and support for literacy, literacy providers and students, as well as enhancing the effective and efficient provision of services to meet the literacy needs in Waterloo-Wellington.
ProLiteracy Worldwide
Category: Learning
ProLiteracy Worldwide is a merger of Laubach Literacy International and Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. It is represented in 45 developing countries as well as in the U.S. and serves more than 350,000 adult new learners around the world each year. Its purpose is to sponsor educational programs and services to empower adults and their families by assisting them to acquire the literacy practices and skills they need.
Provincial Literacy Clearinghouse – Newfoundland and Labrador
Category: Learning
This clearinghouse has over 2, 000 books, videos and other documents including material for new learners, tutors and researchers. It includes material once held by the Literacy Development Council of Newfoundland and Labrador.
PTP Adult Learning Programs
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
PTP’s mission is to provide basic skills education, upgrading, job search and related services to adults preparing for employment, training or further education. Its overall vision is empowering adults to learn and find work they value.
Public Library on Wheels (PLOW)
Category: Learning
Public Library on Wheels (PLOW) is a literacy initiative of PCIN Libraries that addresses the low literacy level in children throughout Perth County. Specifically, it delivers preschool and toddler reading programs, age-appropriate lending collections, etc.
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Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.
Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.
