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ReachAbility/ Building a Stronger Community One Ability at a Time
Category: Essential skills
ReachAbility is a charitable organization committed to increasing awareness of innovative and effective programming available to persons living with disabilities. Ensuring that persons with disabilities have access to equality so they may actively participate in all aspects of communities, reachAbility specializes in educational programs that help persons with disabilities re-enter the workforce.
The Reading Writing Hotline
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Reading Writing Hotline is Australia’s national telephone adult literacy and numeracy referral service. In addition to providing information on how to become a literacy volunteer, the hotline has information on reading and writing classes, correspondence courses, English as a second language programs and literacy in the workplace.
Recognition for Learning (RFL)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Recognition for Learning (RFL) is the Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment’s (CAPLA’s) online community of practice dedicated to the recognition of prior learning (RPL) or prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR). CAPLA is the national voice for prior learning assessment and recognition in Canada. Its goals are to advance the assessment and recognition of learning and promote the improvement of RPL/PLAR practice in Canada.
Red Seal: The Interprovincial Standards Program
Category: Essential skills
The Red Seal Program is recognized as the interprovincial standard of excellence in the skilled trades. Through the program, tradespersons are able to obtain a Red Seal endorsement on their provincial/territorial certificates by successfully completing an interprovincial Red Seal examination. The program acknowledges their competence and ensures recognition of their certification throughout Canada without further examination.
Referral Centre for Adult Training (RCAT)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The RCAT mandate is to assist adults in Prescott-Russell with the retraining process and to reduce the drop-out rate once training has commenced.
Réseau pour le développement de l'alphabétisme et des compétences (RESDAC)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Formerly the Fédération canadienne pour l’alphabétisation en français (FCAF), RESDAC groups together francophone literacy organizations in different areas of Canada. The organization helps to develop essential skills by offering a variety of activities for representation, awareness and promotion. It also offers practitioner training through its Réseau des formatrices et formateurs en éducation des adultes (network for practitioners in adult education).
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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