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Literacy Alberta Strategic Plan Framework
Objective 1:
Literacy Alberta creates and disseminates knowledge about literacy
Activities
LearningLinks Resource Centre
- Ensure funding in place,
- Operate according to 10-year plan developed through community
- Consultation and other processes
Research
- Continue to look for research opportunities
Literacy Tool Production and Dissemination
- Revision of original community based kit
- Researching and production of Workplace supplement
- Researching and production of Health supplement
Facilitation
- On a fee for service basis, facilitate the audit of various agencies
- On a fee for service basis, translate materials into plain language
Use Share as a training site for various PD opportunities
- Increase users of Share
- Investigate the possibility of creating a national system using Share as a model
- Create learner discussion pages and ensure it is moderated
Keep website up to date
- Use website as a marketing tool
Objective 2:
Literacy Alberta enhances the capacity of people living in Alberta to increase literacy levels
Activities
- Contract with Alberta Advanced Education and Technology re Professional Development for practitioners
- Literacy and Adult Learning Conference
- Strengthening Pathways to Professional Development (SPPD) program
- Literacy Alberta (LA) is present at relevant conferences
- iCCAN Project
- Start-up
- Use
- Promote
- Market our videoconference capability as a source of revenue
- Advocate for people with low literacy skills
- Work Up! Project
- Partnership with Alberta Workplace Essential Skills
- Develop other project ideas as capacity is available
- Family literacy support to shelter community
- Ensure staff has adequate skills to meet the demands of their roles
Objective 3:
Literacy Alberta influences stakeholders to ensure literacy thrives in Alberta
Activities
- Communications Plan
- Created
- implemented
- Annual Think Tank
- LA meets with key politicians and community leaders across province
- LA attends important events as appropriate and possible
- LA has a presence nationally
- LA attends relevant trade shows as appropriate and cost efficient
- LA has appropriate membership policy
- Board and staff are forward in inviting new members to join
- International Adult Learners Week activities
- Family Literacy Day activities
- International Literacy Day activities
Objective 4:
Literacy Alberta is a well-governed, financially secure, fiscally responsible organization operating within budget and towards an approved business plan
Activities
- Increase staff as needed
- Communications
- Create and implement plan
- Funding
- LA diversifies sources of income
- Fund development plan in place
- Implement plan
- Use office space to fullest advantage
- Recoup 5% of rent costs by renting our classroom/video conference
- Negotiate longer lease or find equivalent space for August 2010
- Market video conference capability
- Judiciously let out classroom to like minded groups
- Keep organization budget at $1M or above
- Appropriate and sufficient liability, and Officer and Director insurance is in place
- Operational Policies and Procedures updated
- Succession planning – board and staff
- By-law changes as needed
- Board development
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