• Development of tools to support the implementation of workplace literacy programs. Two new resources have recently been added: After the Pilot Projects: Re-visiting the Process, a case study of the five pilot projects, and A Guide for Planning and Conducting an Organizational Needs Assessment for Municipal Workplace Literacy Programs. The guide outlines a process for doing an ONA, and has options for the planning committee to consider.

• A road map to the future. We have been doing research and consulting partners about what a literate municipal workplace and community might look like. In 2003, a national committee was set up to take a critical look at the position paper, The Learning Community: Creating a Blueprint by Michelle O’Brian.

See the CAMA website for the work and the resources of the Literate Cities Project: www.camacam.ca

Patricia Nutter is Project Director of the Literate Cities Project.