Different Reports and Guides

Underrepresented Groups Initiative- Skills for Success

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:

Collaborative Research Project: Adult learner in a Post-Pandemic World

Community Literacy of Ontario with MTML, Project READ, Skillforce Muskoka and Literacy Network North East as partners developed this research report to provide Get SET agencies and other stakeholders a clear understanding of how various major shifts between 2020-2025 collectively reshaped the learner landscape.

Project READ's: Literacy Service Planning Guide

The final report of the Literacy Community Planning Process (LCPP) development Project: Literacy Service Planning Guide

Culminating Tasks: Best Practices Guide

This guide is intended for Get SET program managers and practitioners who support learners with culminating task (CT) completion.  https://lbsresourcesandforum.contactnorth.ca/mod/data/view.php?d=10&rid=982

This guide is organized into four sections: an overview of culminating tasks, organizational best practices, practitioner best practices, and program integration. It is intended to support both organizational planning and day-to-day practise.

Community Literacy of Ontario

Has created a report that covers the following topics:

• Successful learner Recruitment Strategies

• Stories from the Field - Recruitment in Action

• Learner Recruitment Challenges

Community Literacy of Ontario

Report on Life Stabilization for Adult Learners in LBS Programs

2023-2024

Contact North

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.

AlphaPlus and Contact North

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, here.

The ASL video versions are at: https://capacity.alphaplus.ca/reports-asl

Regional Literacy Networks and Workforce Planning Boards: The Partnerships Continue

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

Community Literacy of Ontario 

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.

Literacy Link South Central 

LLSC has created a pandemic planning manual for small non-profits. The

Pandemic Planning Manual is an up-to-date compendium of resources, information, and general recommendations tailored for LBS nonprofits and other community service nonprofits. These organizations can benefit from a thorough guide designed to help them maintain optimal functioning during challenging times.

Literacy Northwest:

This report is the result of a 2022-23 deliverable undertaken by Literacy Northwest (LNW) and its partners, the Mid-North Network, Literacy Network Northeast, and the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition. 

The primary purpose of this deliverable was to compile and share outreach findings in efforts to  identify how Regional Networks and Provincial Support Organizations could best support CLI delivery within their respective service categories and roles. 

 AlphaPlus: Eight Strategies for equitable, sustainable and effective digital literacy development in Ontario's LBS system.

This is a draft discussion document that provides 8 strategies to build a more equitable, sustainable and effective foundation to digital equity.

Report by LiNDR,  Literacy Northwest and PRLN

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.

Discussion Paper: Literacy and Mental Health

Read the discussion paper compiled by United for Literacy (former Frontier College) that discusses the relationship between literacy and mental health during and following the pandemic.

Discussion Paper

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.

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.   

Ontario's Employment Services Transformation and the Service System Manager Model: 

Lessons learned and best practices for Literacy and Basic Skills organizations from prototype and early phase sites.

The science of adult learning: Understanding the whole learner