Project Description
Literacy and Essential Skills in Municipal Workplaces Project
Timeframes: April 2008-November 2009
The goal of CAMA's Literacy and Essential Skills in Municipal Workplaces Project is: to facilitate literacy and essential skills learning opportunities for municipal workers (and those preparing to enter the municipal workforce) that will give them a flexible and strengthened set of skills to help them adjust to the realities and changes in the municipal workplace. We will do this by building strong & committed partnerships, dissemination of tools & resources, & development & testing of learning approaches.
There are four objectives:
- To enable municipal workers/learners to learn about and access literacy and essential skills learning opportunities in municipal workplaces;
- To raise awareness about municipal workplace literacy and essential skills needs with workers & municipal stakeholders;
- To build commitment to municipal workplace literacy and essential skills learning with municipal stakeholders and workers/learners;
- To establish links and partnerships to strengthen the commitment to workplace literacy and essential skills learning.
The broad theme is: ‘building sustainable partnerships and networks to enable municipal learners to access literacy and essential skills opportunities”: We will do this by developing outreach, action and learning opportunities in municipal workplaces; resource/model development activities that will provide models/information for kindred workplaces and partners; communications and promotion to share knowledge and information with Canadian workplaces, learners and partners.
The beneficiaries of the project will be:
- Municipal workers (350,000 across Canada), including Francophone and Aboriginal workers and adults preparing for the workforce
- CAMA members and other municipal managers
- Representatives of labour and management in municipal workplaces who want to learn about, plan and implement workplace literacy and education programs
- Project partners (CUPE, governments, and national, provincial/territorial and local groups) who want strengthened and enhanced relationships, and information development
- Literacy practitioners and agencies; general public who use local government services
- Partner organizations that have requested CAMA representation on various committees and boards to introduce them to the value-added of workplace literacy and learning
For more information, please contact Patricia Nutter, Project Director, at (613) 264-0111; by e-mail or the CAMA National Office at (866) 771-2282.
