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REP Here in Canada Wins Canada Life Literacy Innovation Award Français

News Wire: 8.25.2020 by ABC Life Literacy Canada

ABC Life Literacy Canada (ABC) is pleased to announce the top and honourable mention winners of the 2020 Canada Life Literacy Innovation Award (LIA). The annual award recognizes organizations that develop and implement innovative adult literacy and essential skills programs in communities across Canada.

The LIA top award will be given to REP Here in Canada along with $20,000, which the organization can use towards future programming. In addition to the top winner, four honourable mention winners will receive $5,000 each.

Each of the winners have demonstrated that their program has made a positive contribution to the lives of their adult learners as well as the community, and all serve as a model for other organizations to adapt.

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Since its inception in 2012, 45 LIAs have been awarded to literacy organizations across the country (9 top awards and 36 honourable mention awards), representing $360,000 in funding for the field.

TOP WINNER, receiving $20,000

@heremagazineCA

REP Here in Canada, Vancouver, BC

Program: Here Magazine

Here Magazine is a print and digital publication produced by adult learners through community workshops called Here Labs. Here Labs are multi-discipline, hands-on workshops where participants learn and develop storytelling tools suitable to each learner's language skill level and include writing, photography, podcasting, and videography.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS, receiving $5,000 each

@burnabycce

Burnaby School District (BSD) 41 LINC Program

(Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada), Burnaby, BC

Program: The BSD LINC Literacy Stream Program

The BSD LINC Literacy Stream Program serves multi-barriered, high-risk adult ESL (English Second Language) newcomer and refugee learners.

@4FamilyLiteracy

Centre for Family Literacy, Edmonton, AB

Program: The Edmonton Literacy Classroom on Wheels (the COW Bus)

The Edmonton Literacy Classroom on Wheels (the COW Bus) is a free family literacy program that engages adults and their children in literacy activities.

@jhsontario

John Howard Society of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Program: Skills Plus

Skills Plus is a continuous intake program that builds learners' confidence, self-esteem, and literacy skills. The program meets learners at a "pre-literacy" level: it provides regular workshops on everything from employment skills to mindfulness and guided meditations.

@LiteracyNB

Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB

Program: Essential Skills for Atlantic Fisheries (ESAF)

Essential Skills for Atlantic Fisheries (ESAF) launched in 2018 and is an essential skills program that proactively addresses the labour market challenges faced by fisheries sector employers in the Atlantic provinces.  READ MORE ➤➤

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