Who delivers family literacy in Manitoba?
Across the province community-based organizations with links to schools, family resource centres and social service agencies provide a variety of family literacy programming. Many of the programs offered have specific components that focus on increasing the literacy skills of the adult.
LPM plays an active role in providing support to organizations that deliver family literacy programming. This support takes the form of providing grants, distributing materials in support of ABC Canada’s Family Literacy Day™ and providing access to resources through its library.
In Manitoba, an organization called Bookmates provides training and programs for organizations that work with families, including schools and family resource centres. Programs are also directed towards caregivers. Programs include single workshops to 10-week family literacy programs. For example, “Parent-Child Mother Goose” is provided to caregivers and their children (preschool to Kindergarten); the “Family Literacy Awareness for Parents” is a one-session workshop that uses a variety of activities to “help parents see the importance of reading and writing in their home.” Footnote 10
References
Return to note 10 Criteria for Eligibility for Family Literacy Funding. Adult Learning and Literacy, Ministry of Advanced Education and Literacy.