Upgrading & Literacy
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Copian: Connecting Canadians in Learning
Find adult literacy programs, resources, services and activities available across Canada, North America and overseas.
Essential Skills - Government of Canada
Discover the essential skills that help you succeed at work and in other daily activities. Over 170 occupational profiles show how these essential skills are used in various occupations.
Workplace Literacy Central - Conference Board of Canada
Find information, training resources and tools for Canadian organizations and employers who want to raise literacy and basic skill levels in the workplace.
YMCA Canada
You can locate your local YMCA and find out information on the educational programs and employment services that they have to offer.
Media Awareness Network
Media and internet resources including teaching units and classroom activities for media education and literacy.
Continuing - Waterloo Region District School Board
Educational programs include: literacy and basic skills; ESL; computer courses; programs for new Canadians; high school equivalency certificate; and more.
Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy (MTML)
Improve your English language skills. See the Literacy Access Network (LAN) directory of adult literacy programs, high school courses and English as a Second Language services in Toronto and York Region.
COSTI Immigrant Services - Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
Education and social service agency serving newcomers to Canada. In the Toronto area, COSTI operates five employment and training centres, six ESL training centres, a centre for Foreign Trained Professional and Tradespeople, a Rehabilitation Centre for people with disabilities and a Family Counselling Centre. Immigrant settlement services.
Quill Learning Network (QUILLNet) - Walkerton
QUILL (Quality In Lifelong Learning) Network is one of 16 regional literacy networks in Ontario. It works with Literacy and Basic Skills Agencies which deliver basic skills upgrading programs in Bruce, Grey, Huron and Perth counties and the Georgian Triangle.
Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO)
CLO is a provincial literacy network that supports community-based literacy programs in Ontario. Literacy volunteers can use CLO's Volunteer and Tutor Tip Sheets, and the Promotional Tool Kit.
Grade Expectations Learning Centres
They offer individualized supplementary education for elementary and high school aged students to help improve their grades. Plus, they provide educational and training programs to adult students including job search, ESL, GED and college preparation, retail training, upgrading, and more.
Literacy and Basic Skills - Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
Contains links to Web pages and documents on the: Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) Program; Best Practices in Literacy for Adults with Developmental Disabilities; Literacy Profile of Ontario?s Immigrants; and others.
Preparatory Training Programs of Toronto (PTP)
A non-profit community-based literacy and language provider that specializes in workplace communication and job search programs.
Centre for Skills Development and Training (Burlington, Georgetown, Malton, Milton, Mississauga and Oakville)
This centre offers: academic upgrading; ESL; career services; pre-apprenticeship training; and continuing education courses. Fees may apply.
Centre for Education and Training (CET) - Peel Region
The CET provides education, training and career resource services, including: High School Equivalency (GED); English as a Second Language (ESL); computer training and career planning; and job search services. An electronic version of their guide "The Source for Training" is also available.
Independent Learning Centre (ILC) - TVOntario
Provides a wide range of distance education courses, in English and in French, for Ontario residents who want to earn secondary school diploma credits, upgrade basic skills, or study for personal development.
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