Established in 1988 as a not-for-profit society, Literacy Victoria works with a diverse community of learners who are 19 years of age or older. Literacy Victoria offers learner-centered literacy and essential skills services and programming for adults on southern Vancouver Island free of charge.
From February 2010 to February 2013, Literacy Victoria implemented the Aboriginal Literacy and Essentials Skills (ALES) Pilot Project. A three year initiative funded by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
Through the ALES Pilot Project, Literacy Victoria assisted First Nations communities on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada and their citizens in developing a learning vision and set of pathways that are culturally-relevant and reflective of customized community literacy and essential skills needs, interests and priorities.
Specifically, Literacy Victoria worked with five southern Vancouver Island First Nations communities as pilot sites (representative of urban and remote First Nations communities) that used the Canadian Council on Learning's First Nations holistic lifelong learning model and sought advisory support and guidance from the WILNEW Committee and other First Nations community learning champions.
The ALES Pilot Project is recognized as the first comprehensive First Nations literacy and essential skills planning process on southern Vancouver Island.
The ALES Pilot Project Final Report and resources are now available at
Literacy Victoria welcomes the opportunity to engage in discussing, sharing and mobilizing knowledge about community-driven adult literacy planning and partnerships between Aboriginal communities, various levels of government, academia and literacy organizations across Canada.
For more information about the ALES Pilot Project, please contact
Literacy Victoria
930A Yates Street
Victoria, British Columbia V8V-4Z3
Telephone/Fax: 250.381.3755
Thank you/Hych'ke/Huy ch q'u
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