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Download full textNational Literacy Secretariat, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1990
This booklet provides an overview of some projects and initiatives funded by the National Literacy Program in Canada in 1989-90. Many have been supported as well by the provinces and territories, community organizations, business, or labor organizations. The booklet also contains a sample of the activities of other federal departments and agencies…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Employment Potential, Federal Programs
Faris, Ron – 1975
The Canadian Association for Adult Education (CAAE) is examined during the three historic phases of prewar depression, wartime, and postwar recovery. Social movement groups of a rural and populist nature and traditional voluntary associations encompassing an urban and elitist point of view joined to form the CAAE in 1935, and their conflicting…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Change Agents, Educational History
Shinman, Sheila M. – 1994
Home-Start is an international organization in which volunteers offer regular support, friendship, and practical help to young families under stress in their own homes in order to prevent family crisis and breakdown. It is available to any family with at least one child under 5 years of age. This book presents a snapshot of the day-to-day…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Disabilities, Family Counseling
Organization for Cooperation in Overseas Development, (St. Lucia). – 1992
This manual for volunteer teachers from Canada traveling to the West Indies to assist host governments with improving their teachers' skills describes the organization sponsoring the teachers, the nature of the volunteers' duties, and practical aspects of the stay abroad. Two opening sections describe the Organization for Cooperation in Overseas…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement
Godin, Joanne – 1991
Seven voluntary organizations in Canada looked at the literacy needs of the people who used their services. The Canadian Home and School and Parent-Teacher Federation began an 18-month pilot project focusing on "Literacy in the Information Age." It sponsored literacy exchanges in neighborhoods across Canada. The Canadian Child Welfare…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Child Welfare
Mayer, Morris Fritz; And Others – 1977
This book examines the current state of residential group care for dependent, neglected and emotionally disturbed children in the United States and Canada. A result of the Group Care Project of the Child Welfare League of America, the book is divided into four parts. Part I describes the project, puts group care into historical and sociological…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Care
