Literacy in the News

The following is the message from LLO's president, Sue Bannon, delivered at the 2010 LLO Annual General Meeting.  You can download the full AGM report from our Annual Reports page.

The Local Boards Network, in partnership with Literacy Link Niagara, LLEO Essential Skills Training, Niagara Workforce Planning Board and Employment Ontario, has created a helpful four-minute online video called “Literacy in Ontario: The Bottom Line Impact”.

This video has been designed to promote adult literacy to employers across Ontario. See the video below, or check it out on YouTube by following this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9eoC-MEFI

A newly released overview of Ontario's literacy sector networks highlights the ways in which Laubach Literacy Ontario and other provincial organizations provide effective support and coordination for literacy programs in Ontario.

LLO and the other sector networks "support their members and consequently their learners in a very targeted manner, providing direct, timely and practical assistance to programs, and thus contribute in a substantial way to the delivery of quality literacy programming in Ontario."