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About LiteracyWORKS
LiteracyWORKS provides people with essential literacy skills to enhance self-sufficiency and quality of life. We do this through training volunteers to tutor learners on a one-to-one basis. 2008 was our 30th anniversary, making us the oldest literacy program in the province.
We are unique in exclusively providing one-to-one tutoring and small group workshops. We serve a minimum of 50 learner/tutors pairs per year and continue to study ways to increase this number while maintaining a warm, welcoming and supportive environment.
We are the oldest literacy program in the province, in operation since 1978, and are the only adult literacy program in Winnipeg that exclusively provides one-to-one tutoring.
We are recognized by one of our major funding partners, the Province of Manitoba’s Adult Learning and Literacy branch, as a centre of excellence in working with individuals with learning disabilities.
Our Vision
“LiteracyWORKS envisions a Winnipeg in which all adults are literate and able to participate fully in their cultural, economic and social worlds. Our work is to help make this possible through individual tutoring.”
If you can read this, you may not consider literacy a priority. You may surf the internet, send emails to colleagues and friends, shop online and discuss the books you read in a book club.
For some adults in Manitoba, the reality is very different. They struggle to grocery shop, follow a recipe, fill out an application for employment and can’t read their kids a bedtime story.
What is Literacy?
Literacy is the ability to understand and employ printed information in daily activities at home, at work and in the community – to achieve one’s goals and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.
FACT: 48% of Canadian adults have low literacy skills.
Source: Canadian Council on Learning
Our Future
Our future is bright. The following are initiatives we are working towards:
- Establish a computer literacy program whereby our students learn the basic essentials of computer software and internet use.
- Build upon our current team of literacy staff with additional qualified literacy educators in an effort to grow our existing programs and begin creative new ones.
- Plan a social enterprise to create revenue to support and expand our services.
What We Do…
- provide free literacy assessments and strategically match the student to a trained tutor,
- create individual learning plans based on a student’s goals,
- support and encourage students in meeting their goals through one-to-one tutoring,
- perform learning disabilities assessments,
- monitor the effectiveness of teaching strategies through follow-up assessments and
- provide referrals to other programs and services, as needed.
How YOU can Support Us
Please click here to view our LiteracyWORKS Sponsorship Package PDF.
