Ken Latour, Instructor, Hay River CLC, Aurora College
The Fort Resolution Community Learning Centre and its partners developed a community-based literacy program that has wide support and recognition in the community. The program, run under the title of the Fort Resolution Literacy Program, adopted a multi-faceted approach (literacy awareness and promotion, adult literacy tutoring, family literacy, and development of local tutors and literacy workers) that allowed them to offer something to almost everyone in the community while building resources and training local people in an effort to build capacity within the community.
In order to take on these new programs and develop local capacity, the adult educator accessed additional funding outside of the regular Aurora College funding for the community learning centre. A proposal to support the expanded, comprehensive program was submitted to the Department of Education, Culture and Employment (ECE). The strength of this proposal was that it addressed several areas of literacy programming at once and that each facet of the program built on the others.