Arviat, Northwest Territories, is a hamlet of 1,300 people, ninety percent of them Inuit. Arctic College has had a Women's Literacy Program for four years. The part-time instructor decided to look at the impact of the program on herself, as facilitator, on the women who participated as learners, and on other staff and the community. Karen Bergman-Illnik kept a very detailed journal and, as the research progressed, she explored both what was happening in the class and how she was changing because of the support of the women in this research. She came to believe that she cannot advocate other women's empowering themselves while denying elements of fear, silence, and domination in her own life. To document her experience for others, Karen edited her journal for publication. She also wrote a short fictionalized story about some of the more controversial and personally difficult parts of her experience in the research that may be published at some point.

In Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, LaVera Schiele, who is white, worked with Cree students in the academic upgrading class at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre, the provincial prison for women. Six women drew on their experiences to develop resource booklets for women in crisis in different communities. There has been a great demand for these booklets, particularly from community schools and other agencies. LaVera also wrote a short story that could be used as curriculum, "I believe our lives are woven together like a spider web." Two of the students also developed a very strong logo for the woman-positive activity. The text reads " All colours (races) of women joined together doing an activity that is woman-positive."

In Saint John, New Brunswick, the Saint John Learning Exchange is the province's only community-based literacy program. At the time of the research, they had twenty-two staff, nineteen of them women. They believed their learner centred, holistic program was already meeting the needs of women. Marion Wells, the program director, wanted to challenge that belief and she and a counselor began a small women's group. This group met without structure about once a week. They produced a book, Women getting together and Marion wrote an article called, "The politics of talking: Doing 'woman-positive' in a learner-centred literacy program." The program underwent structural change as a consequence of the project. One counselor's job description now includes facilitating a women's group.

Beat the Street is a literacy program in Toronto affiliated with Frontier College and organized by street people for street people. The students are primarily young adults. There are twenty volunteer tutors and three staff. One of the women staff, Robin Silverman Allcorn, decided to form a women's group to deal with some of the sexism and violence in the program. Because of the aggressive way men responded to this group, they are no longer allowed in the building on Tuesday nights when the Women's Committee meets. The women produced a book, Recipes for political action. that documented their experience with the Women's Committee. They also worked to develop a sexual harassment policy. Women feel that Beat the Street is now a different place. Because of the Women's Committee, people of colour, gay men, and lesbians also feel safer in the program.