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Our Involvement in Workplace Education
Since 1990 ABC CANADA has worked with the private sector to promote literacy in Canada. Over the years we have fulfilled our mandate in various ways. We became seriously involved in promoting workplace education through our Workplace Advisory Service in 1991. In 1995, with help from HRDC, we opened the Workplace Education Centre (WEC) which expanded and deepened the services of our Workplace Advisory Service. Our goals in workplace education were clear. At the beginning there was next to no literacy education or awareness in Canadian workplaces. We set out to raise the awareness of the private sector, increase the capacity of the field and raise the level of workplace education activity. By early 1998, with the help of the burgeoning workplace education field, we had succeeded in raising the awareness of the private sector. This awareness was reflected in the growing demand for workplace education programs and the development of significant capacity in the field to deliver these programs. The Workplace Education Centre had fulfilled its mandate and was closed in the summer of 1998.
Our Directors were and are committed to keeping the pressure on the private sector to stay involved with this issue. Awareness of the need for workplace education is one way we will continue to encourage the private sector to be involved. As well, we want to continue to support the field in developing and honing their capacity to deliver workplace education. In a nutshell, we envision that our role in workplace education is to:
- promote the involvement of the private sector through public awareness projects and campaigns
- support the development of the field with an emphasis on awareness raising projects
- provide opportunities for the sharing of ideas and concerns in workplace education through Literacy at Work, conferences and think tanks
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