Conclusions

The Fort Resolution Community Literacy Program is successful for a number of reasons:

• The program works because of a team management approach that draws upon the strengths of team members, and integrates their suggestions into program planning.
• The program takes advantage of regional allies, such as the NWT Literacy Council, for assistance in proposal writing, training, funding, encouragement and connections to other literacy programs.
• The program invests time in training tutors and local literacy workers. To offer quality literacy programming, the program believes it is essential to recruit tutors with a minimum of Grade 12 and provide them with additional literacy-specific training. It finds STAPLE, a computer-based tutor-training course, a useful tool for training literacy workers.
• The program believes that support for tutors and literacy workers, especially at the beginning of the program is essential, as is empowering them to work on their own as soon as possible. It is also important to listen to the literacy workers and implement their suggestions.

Publications

Over the last three years, the program has published a number of different materials, which are available upon request: