Resources

Literacy Link South Central produces resources and training materials for literacy service providers and the community at large. Below are some of the resources that we've created. For more information about these resources, or to share an idea about a resource that you think should be created, contact us.

Apprenticeship Resources

The "A" Word (2019) 

This series of presentations focuses on 3 key topics: 

Other Apprenticeship Resources:

Essential Skills Resources

Literacy: An Essential Skill for Employment (2014)
  • LLSC produced a video that showcases employment counsellors and support staff from various local agencies, literacy experts and community leaders as they share their stories about the impact of literacy on their communities. The goal of this video was to increase partnerships and effective referrals between Employment Services and Literacy and Basic Skills programs. 

We welcome you to view the Employment Services Outreach video, and invite you to share it with the agencies and clients you think may benefit from viewing it. Using or reproducing this video for profit is strictly prohibited. If you have any questions about this project, please contact Project Manager Summer Burton at summer@llsc.on.ca. 

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Essential Skills for Literacy Practitioners: A Guide and Three Workshops (2011) 

These resources provide a foundation for literacy practitioners to learn more about the nine Essential Skills and the Essential Skills Profiles. A brief history of the development of the Essential Skills and the Essential Skills Profiles has been included. Here you will also find current best practices for integrating the Essential Skills into Literacy and Basic Skills programming.
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"Connecting Literacy and Employment through Essential Skills" Project (2011) 

Through a 2-year project (June 2009 to May 2011) Literacy Link South Central developed a set of seven workbooks. These resources embed Essential Skill activities within employment-readiness tasks. We designed the workbooks to help people build employability skills and literacy/Essential Skills simultaneously.

About the Workbooks

These resources have been developed for people who want to look for employment while strengthening their Essential Skills. These workbooks will be most successful if they are used in a facilitated group setting, as many exercises include working with other people. There are several computer-related activities so the users need access to a computer and the Internet.

The topics reflect the steps people take when looking for a job. For best results, these resources can be used as a series (1-7). But if someone doesn't need the information in every workbook, they can can just choose the ones with the content that is right for them.

We hope these workbooks will help clients of employment and literacy programs move more quickly to fill labour market vacancies. Through stronger partnerships, employment preparation programs and literacy programs can work more collaboratively to build a productive Canadian workforce.

Accessing the Workbooks Online

These workbook are available for free below. You will be able to download free copies of the workbooks or use them interactively.

Organizations are encouraged to copy these materials; however, reproducing these materials for a profit is prohibited. All website links were accurate at the time of printing.
 
Download interactive online workbooks here:

Download workbooks for reproduction here:

This project was funded in part by the Government of Canada's Office of Literacy and Essential Skills   
 Literacy Link South Central is a partner in Employment Ontario

Literacy Program Support

Performance Management Newsletters

Literacy Link South Central is committed to supporting LBS service providers with performance management. These newsletters were created to profile topics that can help build the capacity of the LBS field. 

Immigrant Support Resources

Literacy Links to Employment Newsletters

We are excited to share our Literacy Links to Employment newsletter. In these newsletters, we shared updates about our Labour Market Partnership project, and promoted both literacy and labour market opportunities to London's immigrants and the organizations that serve them. We think that you will find these newsletters valuable and hope you will share them with others. 

Project Reports


Webinars


Literacy Programs Welcome You - Marketing and Outreach Videos

This LLSC Job Creation Partnership project reached out to London's diverse multicultural communities, to share with them the benefits of adult literacy programming. As a result of the multiple outreach efforts, the team developed a video campaign that showcases learners from various cultural backgrounds, literacy experts and community leaders sharing their stories about the impact of literacy on their communities. Through this campaign, LLSC hopes to reach out to diverse multicultural communities, welcoming them to attend London's many free adult literacy programs. 
We welcome you to view the series of videos, and invite you to share it with the community members, clients and friends you think may benefit from the messages they contain. Using or reproducing this video for profit is strictly prohibited. If you have any questions about this project, please contact Project Manager Summer Burton at summer@llsc.on.ca. 

This Employment Ontario project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. 

Innovation in Literacy

Gamification 

In 2017, the report "Using Gamification in LBS and Beyond", along with the French language translation of the report's executive summary, was released. 
Maker Modules 2014

Through a 2014 Job Creation Partnership project, LLSC developed modules to encourage literacy learners to experiment with innovative technology in a hands-on environment.
Supporting Documents

Innov-8

LLSC's Innov-8 project teaches key literacy concepts using technically-innovative and physically challenging 94Fifty SMART basketballs. Gamification takes centre stage (or "centre court" in this case!) as learners are taken through not only basketball drills to improve their skills, but also the learning and application of mathematical concepts through the calculation of angles and speeds, and tracking individual and squad stats. 

Skills for Work

Fabricating the Future: Building Tomorrow’s Manufacturing Workforce

Manufacturing is thriving in the London Economic Region, helping grow our economy and providing ample job opportunities. As more companies build production facilities in the London region in the years ahead, the role of manufacturing in local employment will continue to grow. 

There’s never been a better time to consider a career in manufacturing. Learn more about what jobs in manufacturing have to offer through this series of 5 modules:


Activities for the Local Jobs Hub 

This series of 20 activities and matching answer keys was created to help job seekers in Elgin, Oxford and Middlesex Counties learn how to use local labour market information and tools to research available jobs and careers. The tools explored in these activities include the Local Jobs Hub Job Board, the Local Jobs Hub Map, the Career Explorer, worktrends.ca, the National Occupational Classification (NOC) Code database, the Learning for Life Tool, and locally produced labour market information reports.


Youth Literacy Resources

Marketing to Youth, Engaging Youth and Maintaining Youth (2014)

Tools for Youth Programming (ages 18-29) 

Through a recent Labour Market Partnership project, we explored how certain practices around marketing to youth and the corresponding programming can increase our success when working with youth. During the time of this project, province-wide activities were happening to find out what youth wanted in literacy programming. The resulting focus groups, pilot projects and research gave us an indication of how to attract youth to programs and how to develop “youth friendly” processes. 

At the beginning of this year, we asked Employment Ontario partners in our service area what questions they have of youth. The questions they submitted were grouped into three categories:
  • Marketing to youth
  • Engaging youth
  • Maintaining youth 
These categories formed the approach to our youth focus groups and then became the titles of tools developed by Literacy Link South Central.


This Employment Ontario project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. 
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Targeted Literacy Programming and Outreach for Young Single Males on Ontario Works (2013)

Background

Since 2007, statistics show an upward trend in the number of single males between 18 and 29 who are accessing Ontario Works (OW). In London Ontario, there are at least two thousand single males on OW who have been on the caseload for longer than 12 months and/or who have less than Gr. 12 education.
Through a nine-month project, Literacy Link South Central talked to young single males on OW to find out about their interests and activities, especially as they relate to technology. This informed the content of a set of 4 modules (with accompanying practitioner overviews that speak to the OALCF and a general introduction guide). It is our hope that by creating instructional resources that target that population, we can engage them in learning.

About the Resource

To view an introduction webinar about the modules, click here. 

Modules include:
  • My Dream Career - Identifying and researching a dream career; discussing barriers
  • Examining My Online Identity and Digital Media Use - Learning about and protecting online identity; using digital devices and media
  • How I Communicate in Different Places - Learning about different communication styles; discussing effective communication
  • My Role Models - Exploring the qualities of a good role model; becoming a role model

Obtaining the Resource

Not only did we distribute free hard copies of the resources, but we will also host the workbooks here. Below, you will be able to download free copies of the workbooks. These modules are now also available in an online learning format (Moodle) that is available for free to the public. To access the online learning format (Moodle), click here. 

Through these resources we hope to see more single males (18-29) on OW participate in adult literacy programs and connect with local employment programs. Together, as a community of service providers, we can help young males engage in learning and help them move more quickly to employment.
  
This Employment Ontario project was funded by the Ontario government.
 
Download and print the resources here:
 
Organizations are encouraged to copy this resource; however, reproducing this resource for a profit is prohibited.

All websites links were accurate at the time of printing- March 2013.
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