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Through the Skills for Success initiative, MTML was able to carry out activities to build awareness about the support and program services offered by not-for-profit community based organizations in Toronto and York region and how literacy and basic skills programs might partner with them. Below are the reports compiled for both phases:
Phase 1 report: 2022-2023
Phase 2 report: 2023-2024
MTML in partnership with Toronto Workforce Innovation Group, Simcoe Muskoka Skillforce and Tri-County Literacy Network organized a 2-hour session for literacy programs. The aim was to:
Learn about strategies and tips while collaborating and building relationships with community organizations serving Underrepresented groups.
Learn how to connect labour market data on URG to your literacy programs.
Recording of the session (with ASL interpretation):
Resource booklet based on the event:
And its deliverable partners, the Coalition Ontarienne de formation des adultes - COFA, Contact North, Literacy Network Northeast, the Mid North Network, and the QUILL Learning Network conducted research and consultations in 2020-21, which produced the attached resource, A Collection of Workforce and Workplace Literacy Resources.
Has created a report that covers the following topics:
Successful learner Recruitment Strategies
Stories from the Field - Recruitment in Action
Learner Recruitment Challenges
Has created this report that provides a checklist of learner proficiencies, technology needs, and practitioner proficiencies that should be in place prior to learners accessing e-Channel courses through a blended learning process.
Have created a report "Enhancing the Literacy and Basic Skills Program through Integrated Digital Delivery: An Opportunity and Needs Assessment", that highlights identified challenges, promising practices and specific opportunities to enhance the digital capacity of the LBS network. The French version is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GV_elhtJWvO4wH6bjb5MxFT2pv-KvJe7/view
The ASL video versions are at: https://capacity.alphaplus.ca/reports-asl
Literacy Link South Central lead a partnership to develop and distribute a follow-up resource to the 2012 Realizing Workforce Potential through Workforce Planning Boards and Regional Networks. Read the final document updated 2021-2022
This is a draft discussion document that provides 8 strategies to build a more equitable, sustainable and effective foundation to digital equity.
The report, 'The "How to" of Hybrid Meetings' gives you best practices on running hybrid meetings and also a list of equipment and potential costs for the equipment /platforms needed.
Read the discussion paper compiled by Frontier College that discusses the relationship between literacy and mental health during and following the pandemic.
The link below will take you through a short video of the changes that were made from the previous 2016 version. https://www.screencast.com/t/ZFbxoVYY9Bik
This document prepared by the College Sector Committee provides explanations for all the credentials available to adults at a secondary level in Ontario. The credentials include ACE, GED, OSSD, and TOWES.
Has created Apprenticeship and Skilled Trades through the Lens of Literacy and Basic Skills Report. The report report reflects challenges, strategies, successes, resources and “big ideas” from across the Community-based, College and School Board sectors to increase the common understanding of how this goal path can be supported in LBS agencies.
SMLN conducted an Employer/ job seeker and EO service provider Apprenticeship webinar series.
The resources include: recordings of all three of the webinars, the various power points that were used in the webinars and some links and resources that were discuss in the webinars.
https://literacynetwork.ca/resources/apprenticeship-webinar-series-resources/
Click on the button below to access the latest info about services provided by the MTML Network during the pandemic.
In the research article “Less May Be More: Rethinking Adult Literacy Volunteer Tutor Training,” Alisa Belzer from Rutgers University, sheds light on what is actually carried from training into practice.
Frontier College National Forum on Literacy and The Economy aims to bring together a wide variety of participants to discuss the economic impact of COVID-19 on Canadians and how literacy is vital to our country’s recovery.
The University of Toronto’s Media Ethics Lab partnered with the City of Toronto to support the project: “The Digital Access: Who is Underserved and Why”. The report determines that communities must prioritize accessibility.