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Table 4: Potential
Community Partners
- literacy, adult basic
education, and English as a Second Language programs and
organizations
- schools (teachers, school
councils, school boards and trustees, kindergarten and early
childhood, parent-teacher groups, colleges and universities,
alternate programs)
- parent groups
- infant and youth services (infant daycare,
group daycares, pre-schools, special needs children's services,
youth recreation, guidance and counselling programs, children's
clubs such as Girl Guides and Boy Scouts)
- libraries, library personnel,
and community library advisory boards
- reading councils
- media (newspapers, community
television, book publishers)
- business and industry
- book stores
- service clubs
- health services (hospitals,
community clinics, nurses, physicians, mental health and
rehabilitation services
- community organizations
(Native, Métis, seniors, multicultural, abilities
centres, and transition houses)
- housing authorities
- Social Services (teen and young
parent programs), Employment, Immigration (most federal and
provincial government agencies)
- correctional centres
- charitable foundations
- churches and ministerial groups
- speech therapists
- food banks
- counselling (individual and
family counselling, parent and family support services)
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Preparing an information package
Before you contact your potential partners, make sure you're prepared
to present information and answer questions. We recommend assembling
an information package to mail out to potential partners after you
have made the initial contact.
There are three main types of information to include:
- a brief, clear explanation of family literacy and its benefits
- the need for the program
- an indication of why a partnership is essential
For the explanation of family literacy, see Chapter II of this
manual for definitions and a rationale. If your organization has
already identified a family literacy program that it thinks is a
viable option, include a description of it and its intended outcomes.
The need for the program can be based on the information leading up
to your agency's decision to implement a family literacy program. Has
your organization conducted any needs assessments in your community or
area to justify literacy programming in general? If so, use this
information to demonstrate the need for the program. If you haven't,
you can contact the Alberta Association for Adult Literacy (AAAL) in
Calgary for information from Statistics Canada on literacy levels. The
AAAL has broken down the national survey into statistics for federal
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