Acknowledgements

Thanks to the dedicated volunteer committee members of the Family Literacy Action Group (FLAG): Bonnie Annicchiarico, Kathy Day, Tony Garlock, Candice Jackson, Bev Knutson-Shaw, Judy Pool, and Maureen Sanders. Thanks also to our administrator at Medicine Hat College, Allen VandenBerg, and our FLAG coordinator, Jana Joujan.

Our sincere appreciation goes to the National Literacy Secretariat of Human Resources Development Canada and to Alberta Advanced Education and Career Development for funding this project.

Finally, our sincere thanks to the family literacy coordinators and their community partners for participating in the research for this study. It is their words and experiences that make this manual relevant and, hopefully, of use to you and your projects.

In the way that organizations are changing right now, it's true that there are a lot of barriers, there's a lot of difficulty, the lack of funding certainly is very restrictive, but there have also been a whole raft of opportunities. For example, some of those structural changes are responsible for the fact that (the family literacy coordinator and I) could simply throw this thing together by ourselves. In a more structured environment, in an environment less in the middle of change and evolution, we might not have been able to do that. We might have been so locked in to structure and definitions, rigidity, that it would not have been a possible program initiative.
Adult Basic Education instructor
FLAG interviews 1995

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