Community Partnerships

Submitted By

Liz Pope, Adult Educator, Hay River CLC, Aurora College

Best Practices Supported

• Organizational Linkages and Partnerships
• Funding

How It Works

In the community of Hay River, the Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre delivered a literacy level Pre-Employment/Life Skills Program and Aurora College concentrated on the middle-to-upper level adult basic education levels. However, after governmental changes and subsequent funding changes, securing funding for the continuation of the literacy program became a challenge for the Friendship Centre.

After a lot of thought and discussion, the Friendship Centre executive director and the Aurora College adult educator collaborated and submitted separate and different funding proposals to various funding agencies. The end result was a full-time literacy program. The program was situated at Aurora College and the instructor worked part-time for Aurora College and part-time for the Friendship Centre.