Media Contacts

Tasha Schollen

Director of Communications
Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training
250 889-1121

Jenny Van Enckevort

Mount Pleasant Neighborhood House
jvanenckevort@mpnh.org
604 879-8208, ext. 102

Backgrounders

More access to literacy programs for adult learners throughout B.C.

Recipients that will benefit from the $2.4 million in funding for community adult and family literacy programs include:

Camosun College

  • Learning Together - Salt Spring Island Literacy Society
  • Adult Literacy in Greater Victoria - Victoria Literacy Connections (formerly known as Literacy Victoria)

Capilano University

  • Lower Lonsdale Literacy Outreach Program - North Shore Neighbourhood House (North Vancouver)
  • Queen Mary Family Learning Program - St. John Evangelist Anglican Church (North Vancouver)
  • Remote Aboriginal Communities Access to Learning - Southern Stl'atl'imx Health Society (Mount Currie)
  • Community Adult Literacy and Learning - Sechelt Public Library
  • Squamish Community Adult Literacy Program - Squamish Volunteer Centre Society
  • Carnegie Literacy Inreach/Outreach Program - Carnegie Community Centre (Vancouver)
  • East Vancouver Family Literacy - Kiwassa Neighborhood House
  • Hastings Park Learning Centre - Horsemens’ Benevolent and Protective Association of B.C. (Vancouver)
  • Strathcona Family Literacy Program - Strathcona Community Centre (Vancouver)
  • Sea to Sky Faces Family Learning Program - Sea to Sky Community Services (Whistler)
  • Whistler Community Learning Program - Whistler Public Library

Coast Mountain College

  • Literacy Haida Gwaii
  • Literacy on Wheels CALP/Learners Opportunity Group Society (Hazelton)
  • Storytellers' Foundation/The Learning Shop (Hazelton)
  • Community Family Literacy Program - Houston Link to Learning Society
  • Community Adult Literacy Program - Houston Link to Learning Society
  • Kitimat Adult Literacy Program/Kitimat Community Services Society
  • Gitxaala Adult Literacy Program - Gitxaala Nation (Kitkatla)
  • Community Adult Literacy Program/North Coast Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society (Prince Rupert)
  • Cultural Learning Connections - Adult - Change Makers Education Society (Prince Rupert)
  • Raven Tale Revival Program - Indigenous - Change Makers Education Society (Prince Rupert)
  • Community Learning Services/Smithers Community Services Association

College of New Caledonia

  • Power of Words - Burns Lake Public Library (Burns Lake/Mackenzie)
  • Literacy Support McLeod Lake - McLeod Lake Indian Band (Mackenzie)
  • Literacy Support - AiMHi (Mackenzie)
  • McBride Community Literacy Outreach Program - Robson Valley Community Services (McBride)
  • McBride Indigenous Learning Literacy Program - Robson Valley Community Services (McBride)
  • Learning Circle Indigenous Literacy Program - Prince George Native Friendship Centre
  • Indigenous Adult Literacy Program - Literacy Quesnel Society
  • Adults Building Literacy and Education - Literacy Quesnel Society
  • Valemount Community Lit Outreach Program - Robson Valley Community Services
  • Valemount Indigenous Learning Literacy Program - Robson Valley Community Services
  • Family Literacy in Valemount - Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy
  • Valemount Community Adult Literacy Program - Valemount Learning Society

College of the Rockies

  • Adult Literacy Programs in the East Kootenay - Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (Golden, Windermere Valley, Creston, Cranbrook, Kimberley, Elk Valley)
  • Family Literacy Programs in the East Kootenay - Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (Golden, Windermere Valley, Creston, Cranbrook, Kimberley, Elk Valley)
  • Young Parents Education Programs - Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (Cranbrook)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

  • Literacy Richmond CALP - Richmond Public Library
  • Partners Adult Literacy Tutoring - Read Surrey White Rock Society
  • Learn with a Friend - Progressive Intercultural Community Services (Surrey)
  • Read-y for Life: Pathways - DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society (Surrey)
  • Community 1-on-1 Langley Literacy for Adults - Encompass Support Services Society (Langley)

North Island College

  • Community Adult & Family Literacy Program - Bella Coola Valley Learning Society
  • Adult Literacy Program - Campbell River Community Literacy Association
  • Family Learning Program - Campbell River Community Literacy Association
  • Indigenous Learning and Skills Program, Homalco Nation - Campbell River Community Literacy Association
  • Comox Valley Adult Literacy Program - Comox Valley Community Adult Literacy and Learning Society (Courtney)
  • Comox Valley Family Literacy Program - Comox Valley Community Adult Literacy and Learning Society (Courtney)
  • Alberni Valley Adult Literacy Program - Literacy Alberni Society (Port Alberni)

Northern Lights College

  • Chetwynd Community Adult Literacy Program - Chetwynd Public Library
  • CALP Dawson Creek - Dawson Creek Literacy Society
  • Adult Literacy Program - Fort Nelson Community Literacy Society
  • Family Literacy Program - Fort Nelson Community Literacy Society
  • Fort St. John Adult Literacy Program - Fort St. John Literacy Society
  • Fort St. John Family Literacy Program - Fort St. John Literacy Society
  • Tumbler Ridge Adult Literacy Program - Tumbler Ridge Public Library

Nicola Valley Institute of Technology

  • Skeetchestn Community Literacy and Numeracy - Skeetchestn Indian Band (Savona, Skeetchestn)

Okanagan College

  • Project Literacy Employment Focused Tutoring Program - Project Literacy Kelowna Society
  • South Okanagan Community Literacy Program - Okanagan Regional Library (Penticton, Oliver, Osoyoos, Okanagan Falls)
  • Revelstoke Family Literacy Program - Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy
  • Volunteer Literacy Tutoring Program - Revelstoke Literacy Action Committee

Selkirk College

  • West Kootenay Family CALP - Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (Castlegar, Grand Forks, Kaslo, Nakusp, Nelson, Salmo, Slocan Valley, Greater Trail)
  • West Kootenay Adult CALP - Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (Castlegar, Grand Forks, Kaslo, Nakusp, Nelson, Salmo, Slocan Valley, Greater Trail)

Simon Fraser University

  • Burnaby CALP - Burnaby Neighbourhood House Society

Thompson Rivers University

  • Partner Assisted Learning, Barriere - Yellowhead Community Services Society
  • Partner Assisted Learning, Clearwater - Yellowhead Community Services Society
  • Street School CALP - Twin Rivers Education Centre, School District 73 (Kamloops)
  • Kamloops Partner Assisted Learning - Kamloops and District Elizabeth Fry Society
  • Lillooet Adult Literacy Outreach Program - Lillooet Area Library Association
  • Reaching Learners, 100 Mile House & Canim Lake Bands - Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy Society
  • Families as Learning Leaders, 100 Mile House & Canim Lake Bands - Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy Society
  • Partner Assisted Learning - Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy Society (100 Mile House)
  • Families as Learning Leaders - Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy Society (Williams Lake)
  • Urban Indigenous Engagement Program - Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy Society (Williams Lake)
  • Partner Assisted Learning Program (Adult) - Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy Society (Williams Lake)

University of the Fraser Valley

  • Community Access to Literacy and Learning - Agassiz-Harrison Community Services (Agassiz and Abbotsford)
  • Access 2 English - Abbotsford Community Services
  • Volunteer Tutor Program - Chilliwack Learning Society                   
  • Chilliwack Family Literacy Program - Chilliwack Community Services
  • Read Right Society CALP - Read Right Society (Hope)
  • Lifelong Learning for Adults - Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Katzie Literacy Committee
  • CALP Mission - Mission Literacy in Motion

Vancouver Community College

  • Coast Clubhouse Career Literacy - Coast Mental Health Clubhouse (Vancouver)
  • Family Literacy Outreach - Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House (Vancouver)

Vancouver Island University

  • Pathways to Learning - Literacy Now Cowichan Society (Duncan)
  • Malahat Way Adult Literacy Program - Malahat First Nations (Mill Bay)
  • Adult Literacy Tutoring/Literacy Central Vancouver Island (Nanaimo)
  • Family Literacy Tutoring/Literacy Central Vancouver Island (Nanaimo)
  • Indigenous Literacy Tutoring/Literacy Central Vancouver Island (Nanaimo)
  • The Tutoring Program/Central Vancouver Island Jobs Opportunities Building Society - The Career Centre (Parksville)
  • Community Adult Literacy and Learning - Powell River Employment Program Society (Powell River)
  • Community Literacy and Learning - Family - Powell River Employment Program Society (Powell River)