A quality adult literacy and basic education program has procedures and practices in place to help learners transfer their learning to further education, training, employment or community life.
The Fort Resolution Community Literacy Program tries to ensure that learners acquire knowledge and skills in the program that they can apply in real-life settings and can connect to greater community involvement, to further training or to employment. The program itself provides work experience for learners by employing them as family literacy workers, researchers and illustrators. It empowers them to take on increasing levels of responsibility.
Many programs operate in the community rather than in the learning centre, such as the student council’s 2003 Halloween extravaganza. This gives learners the opportunity for greater community involvement. They can transfer the planning, budgeting, marketing and public relations skills that they develop in organizing community events to the workplace. Other projects, such as the newsletter, also get learners involved in the community and give them transferable skills.