2008 Funding

Community Issues click here for program descrptions

Total Granted in this Category: 220,000

Association of Inside Theatre Projects

Inside Out Integrated Theatre

$ 15,750

Calgary Immigrant Aid Society

Citizenship Learning Project

$ 20,525

Centre for Newcomers

Multicultural Family Development Program

$ 40,340

Canadian Mental Health Association

Family Peer Support Workshops

$ 26,970

Canadian Mental Health Association

Peer Options Workshops

$ 19,750

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services

Family-focused Sign Language Instruction

$ 13,100

Families Matter

Community-Based Family Education

$ 83,565

Employment Enhancement click here for program descriptions

Total Granted in this Category: 220,000

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society

Computer Training for Employment

$ 39,268

Calgary Immigrant Education Society

Computer Combo Program

$ 34,548

Calgary John Howard Society

Learning Education Enhancement Program

$ 53,375

Elizabeth Fry Society

Bridges Program

$ 28,640

Momentum

ABC's of Small Business

$ 50,169

English as a Second Language click here for program descriptions

Total Granted in this Category: 247,073

Bow Valley College

Computer Enhanced ESL Literacy

$ 30,348

Bow Valley College

ESL Volunteer Tutor Training Program

$ 18,688

Calgary Chinesse Comm

Stepping Stones: Forward into the Community

$ 64,695

Calgary Immigrant Women's Association

Canadian Pronunciation

$ 5,464

YWCA

English for New Canadians

$ 105,618

Adult Basic Literacy click here for program descriptions

Total Granted in this Category: 216,036

Bow Valley College

Evening Adult Basic Literacy

$ 28,414

Bow Valley College

Lifeline to Literacy

$ 16,046

Bow Valley College

Speech-Assisted Reading and Writing

$ 21,670

Calgary Immigrant Women's Association

Pebbles in the Sand

$ 48,600

Calgary John Howard Society

Learning Opportunities Program

$ 15,900

Further Education Society

Family Literacy Program

$ 51,660

Mount Royal College

Transitional Vocational Program - ABE

$ 33,746

TOTAL 2008 PROGRAM FUNDING

$903, 109

Bow Valley College

Effective Tools and Teaching Approaches for Deaf Immigrant Adults in Bicultural and Bilingual Education: Research Project Phase II

This 40-week research project targets financially barriered Deaf and Hard of Hearing immigrant adults, particularly adults with no or little prior acquisition of language. Central to this project is empowerment of learners through participation in the project, particularly providing feedback on the effectiveness of tools and teaching approaches that were identified in Phase One of the research project. Phase One, funded by BVC, involved onsite visits to Canadian programs that are similar to BVC’s ASL for DHH Adult Learners to identify effective tools and teaching approaches. Phase Two will try out/test such tools and approaches in BVC’s program. Learners will participate in the decision making process of how to use these in the program. The results of this pilot will be shared at a Community Knowledge Exchange hosted by BVC.

Calgary Sexual Health Centre

Seniors "A Go Go"

In partnership with the Seniors Action Group – an inter-agency seniors’ volunteer group – this project will develop and pilot a theatre education workshop targeted at older adults living in seniors’ residences about the issue of sexual health. The goal of the project is to break down stereotypes and engage in reconstructing healthy attitudes around seniors and sexuality with older adults.

Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta

Taking Control: Immigrant Women on Assertiveness

The Making Changes Program intends to develop a replacement audio-visual tool entitled “Taking Control” to demonstrate the key strategies and techniques of assertive communication to augment the written course materials. The Making Changes Program created a 12 minute video resource over 20 years ago as a facilitation tool and now the visual and audio quality of the existing copies is extremely poor due to degradation through reproduction and repeated use. Consulting past participants in the design, this one-time investment will develop a valuable resource and that will be utilized during every Making Changes Program offering to over 60 to 70 women annually.

Servants Anonymous Society of Calgary

SAS Curriculum Development

SAS works with women at risk or who have experienced sexual exploitation. This project is to re-build and update the parenting education and financial literacy areas of the Pre-Academic and Pre-Vocational Learning curriculum. It will also update the accompanying Facilitators Guide to better meet the needs of this special audience. Excellent teaching material is available in their curriculum areas; however, few resources are specifically suited to the needs of these women in terms of their former life experiences. This project will enable SAS to better serve the core audience which in turn will enhance the rate of success for Participants to reintegrate into society.

Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute

Works Skills and What You Need to Know About Being a Plain Language Translator: Phase I

Works Skills and What You Need to Know About Being a Plain Language Translator is Phase One in a multi-phase process to develop a unique work skills training program for persons with developmental disabilities to become plain language translators. Phase One: Research and Program Development will identify and integrate evidence-based best practices in adult learning, basic work skills and ethics to develop a program which provides tools to enhance general employability skills, while also teaching specific skills required to become a plain language translator for VRRI’s award winning translation service.

Youth In Motion

Developing Workplace Essential Skills for New Immigrants

Since 2004, Youth in Motion has offered mentoring programs for internationally trained immigrants in Calgary to assist them to find employment related to their previous experience. As a value added component to the New Horizons Mentoring Program they would like to teach workplace English and Canadian Business Cultural skills that are required for immigrants to be come successful in the workplace. This one month pilot training program will be offered so that participants can acquire essential language, culture, and job search skills to better integrate into society. This will happen prior to the start of the mentoring component of the program.

$8,952