Literacy:
Spanning North America
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EDGE
Skills Centre Launches its 29th Annual Career Program
Newswire: 10.12.2017
EDGE Skills
Centre, a
registered charity and a provider of Adult Literacy, English as a Second
Language and Employment Services to adults in Winnipeg announces the launch of
its 29th annual Career program and invites new participants to join its
year-long program, beginning November 13, 2017.
The
EDGE Career Program has assisted hundreds of low-income adults to find
long-term, meaningful employment.
Audrey
Owens, Board Chair, says "Good, long-term jobs are the key to successful
integration for newcomers and citizens alike, offering financial stability to
participants and their families and the hope for a better future where they can
contribute to their community."
Miles Murphy, Director of the Career Program says that many of the
program participants are referred by previous clients who have enjoyed success
through the program.
Yevgen
Balytskyy, a recent immigrant from the Ukraine is now employed as a Research
Assistant for the City of Winnipeg and credits EDGE with helping him to achieve
employment in a career aligned with his knowledge, skills, abilities and
interests. "I could never have done
it myself! I am so grateful for your
help, knowledge, advice and support".
"We
are happy to support the EDGE Career Program, which gives newcomers the chance
to find meaningful employment and successfully integrate into our
community," says Rick Frost, CEO of The Winnipeg Foundation. "This
grant is only possible thanks to the generous donors who choose to support our
community through The Winnipeg Foundation." READ MORE >>
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STLA
hosts its 9th annual Historias de la Vida Celebration
Rio Grande Guardian: 10.13.2017 by Patricia Martinez
This
Saturday, the South
Texas Literacy Coalition will be hosting their ninth annual
Historias de la Vida Celebration where they will be honoring “literacy heroes”
from across the Rio Grande Valley.
Dr.
Ida Acuña-Garza, CEO of STLC, said that the individuals and organizations that
were chosen each showed a passion for making a difference in the community,
particularly in literacy.
Pharr-San
Juan-Alamo I.S.D. Superintendent Dr. Daniel P. King and Emma Gonzalez, author
of “Field Mice: Memoirs of a Migrant Child,” were selected for the group’s
individual category.
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For
the organization category, the Alamo Community Resource Center was selected
because of their work with residents of the poverty-stricken and crime-ridden
area known as “Little Mexico.”
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Rounding
out the honorees is the Continuing, Professional and Workforce Education
department of South Texas College. Through their ESL and GED prep courses, the
department is boosting adult literacy and creating a pathway for people to move
on to postsecondary education.
Acuña-Garza
says that working to improve literacy is vital to our region. Reading is the
No. 1 predictor of academic success, and according to the Texas Center for
Adult Learning and Literacy at Texas A&M, Hidalgo County has an illiteracy
rate of about 50 percent, with Starr, Willacy and Cameron County not faring any
better.
“Literacy
is in every part of your life. Reading street signs, reading labels on
medication bottles, reading labels on food, how you manage your money –
budgeting, saving, credit management – reading contracts, making investments,
[it’s] everything,” said Acuña-Garza. READ MORE >>
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Meeting
literacy needs in the area
Rushville Republican: 10.13.2017 by Kate Thurston and
Open Book staff
Have
you heard of the Open Book? Do you know where it is located?
The
Open Book bookstore has been open in
downtown Rushville for six months, and it still appears to be one of our area’s
best-kept secrets. There are books for every age and interest, the store would
love to see new customers.
The
Open Book is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organization that accepts
books that have been donated by the public, sells them for a minimal price and
then uses proceeds to provide classes, tutoring and materials that address the
literacy needs of our area.
“We
absolutely have a book for any and every one,” Elaine Stewart, president of the
Literacy Alliance of Rush County, said.
The
Literacy Alliance of Rush County is the parent organization of The Open Book.
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The
group has many more literacy-oriented classes and programming planned for the
future, including one-on-one tutoring for students of all age levels, a lending
library of graded books for childcare sites and schools, individual tutoring
for basic literacy and Ted Talks brown bag lunch programs to spark thought and
conversation. READ MORE >>
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