Working with the North West Company.
Consumer’s Association of Canada (CAC), 1999.

This interesting report documents the work by the CAC to adapt its popular resource, Food Tips — eight pages of food and nutrition information in clear language — for a different audience, the Aboriginal people of northern Canada. The CAC partnered with The North West Company, a retail store with 155 outlets in northern communities, to adapt the information compiled in the original Food Tips for residents of the north with low literacy skills.

To revise the original Food Tips, CAC’s Literacy Advisory Group was expanded to include two nutritionists and other health professionals who work with Northern residents. This report documents their feedback. They recommended, for instance, revising the artwork to depict aboriginal habits, customs and settings, and rewriting the text to reflect Aboriginal views on health and diet. The report includes both the original and revised Food Tips to show the effect of these changes. The revised Food Tipsare available by contacting the CAC office at (613) 238-2533 or via their website at www.consumer.ca

Measuring Learning Readiness.
A Resource Guide for Students and LBS (Literacy and Basic Skills) Practitioners. Pat Powell, Coordinator, Peterborough Native Learning Program, Fall 1999.

This manual is designed to look at learners’ abilities beyond academics. It is intended for use as part of a student assessment and training plan, hand in hand with an academic skills profile. This binder of resource materials and exercises addresses topics such as the importance of nurturing the spiritual realm, motivation and goal setting, strengths, interests and abilities, learning styles, communicating, attendance, attitude, and assertiveness.

Career Planning Guide for Adult Learners
Calvin Coish, College of the North Atlantic, Newfoundland. 1999.

This guide provides a comprehensive, step-by-step look at planning a career. Each step is followed up with a story or interview that illustrates the planning process. Questions for discussion and reflection accompany the story. Lots of self-reflective, evaluative questions are posed to help the reader determine what he/she wants to do. Sample application forms, resumes and cover letters are included.

Learning to be the Boss.
Ida Stanley-Tober, Calgary John Howard Society. 1999.

This guide outlines in plain language what to consider in setting up a business, such as the skills and aptitudes required for being your own boss, ideas for new businesses, integrating the business into lifestyle, and the kinds of professional help needed for support, legalities, finances, marketing and promotion.

Volunteer Leadership Training Manual: Leading, Coaching, Tutoring.
YMCA, Edmonton. 1998.

Designed as a framework for the development, assessment, and evaluation of core competencies for effective tutoring, the manual contains building blocks to design and deliver a competency-based training program and evaluate volunteer skills. It outlines objectives, desired competencies and evaluation measurements, to train and support volunteers in a way that reflects regional differences, community resources, and individual participant needs.