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Strengthening Literacy in the Downtown Eastside 2018 Revised May 2018 DTES LITERACY ROUNDTABLE MEMBERS: Strengthening Literacy in Aboriginal Front Door Capilano University the Downtown Eastside Carnegie Community Centre Crab Tree Corner Vision, Goals and Action Plan DTES Neighbourhood House of the DTES Literacy Roundtable Embers Lookout Society Open Door Group Potluck Café/ Knackworks The Downtown Eastside Adult Literacy Roundtable is a coalition Simon Fraser University - of adult educators working in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). Faculty of Education The Roundtable understands literacy as having the knowledge, Simon Fraser University – skills, and confidence to participate fully in our lives. The group Leadership and Community has been collaborating since 2005 to share skills, ideas, support Building Program and information. In 2010, the Roundtable organized a Strathcona Community Centre community literacy plan and continually implements the plan UBC Hum 101 every year. The group meets once a month and welcomes new UBC Learning Exchange members committed to strengthening literacy in the DTES. The Vancouver Community College Roundtable acknowledges and honors the fact that our Vancouver Public Library community lies within the unceded traditional territory of the Vancouver School Board xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwx̱ wú7mesẖ (Squamish), and Vancouver Writers Exchange Səlílw̓ ətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. Wish Drop-in Centre YWCA Vancouver https://dteslit.wordpress.com/ 1 Contents Downtown Eastside – DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable ............................................................................... 2 Literacy Task Group................................................................................................................................... 3 Community Context .................................................................................................................................. 3 Some Examples of Positive Impacts Include: ................................................................................................ 4 Some Examples of Negative Impacts Include: .............................................................................................. 6 Community Development & Literacy Collaboration ..................................................................................... 7 Addressing Our Goals & Priorities................................................................................................................. 8 Literacy Goal: Connect, Exchange Skills and Share Ideas ........................................................................... 10 Literacy Goal: Support Aboriginal Reconciliation Efforts in the DTES ........................................................ 12 Literacy Goal: Increase Awareness of Literacy Resources .......................................................................... 13 Literacy Goal: Build Capacity to Support People with Learning Disabilities/Differences ........................... 14 Programs ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Friends of the DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable .......................................................................................... 23 DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable 2 Downtown Eastside – DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable UNESCO has defined literacy as: Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write. The modern term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers, and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge, solve mathematical problems and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. http://www.unesco.org/education/GMR2006/full/chapt6_eng.pdf The American Library Association (ALA) defines digital literacy as: The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol22/iss1/27/ Literacy in the Downtown Eastside community goes far beyond reading and writing; rather, literacy means being able to enjoy and participate in everyday life, and being able to contribute to, remain informed in, and engage with ones’ community. Project Steward: WISH Drop-In Centre Society Literacy Outreach Coordinator: William Booth In 2010, the Roundtable organized a community literacy plan that is continually implemented and updated every year. This report covers from July 2017 – June 30, 2019. The report has been prepared and written by table members Sandra McKay and William Booth in collaboration with the Downtown Eastside (DTES) Literacy Roundtable. In 2018 the design and content of the report was edited and updated by Marie Urdiga, with input and additions from DTES literacy roundtable members. DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable 3 Literacy Task Group The literacy task group in the DTES community has been comprised of adult educators and a network of supporters who sit on the DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable and represent a wide spectrum of literacy/educational organizations in the DTES community. The Roundtable has been coming together since 2005 for the purpose of sharing skills, ideas, support and information. The work of the Roundtable is organized through monthly meetings hosted by a rotation of its members. At these meetings, members share new developments in their organizations and the community, as well as well offer opportunities for professional development and support through workshops and guest speakers. We are able to engage community members in activities by providing a modest honorarium to profit from their knowledge and contacts throughout the community Community Context The Downtown Eastside is a dynamic, vibrant, low-income Vancouver neighborhood located on unceded Coast Salish Territory. Also known as ‘the Heart of the City’, the DTES has historically been a hub of rich cultural life for Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese, Latin American, Black, working class, and low income peoples. The strong, community-driven DTES neighborhood prides itself on insider knowledge, lived experiences, volunteerism, social justice efforts, multicultural diversity, unity and support and offers opportunities for asset-based learning. In the past year, a number of developments, issues and decisions have directly impacted people—both positively and negatively-- living in the Downtown Eastside community. This has, in turn, affected the ability of organizations to support literacy development. DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable 4 Some Examples of Positive Impacts Include: Responding to the needs identified by the Roundtable and the broader DTES community, Open Door Group has increased access to WorkBC programs and services by moving from a single office to three service locations. Open Door Group has also continued to expand the availability of employment services through ongoing partnerships with organizations such as BWSS, ACCESS, Gastown Vocational Services, La Boussole, as well as the provision of itinerant services at offsite locations. New services to Opioid users have been created - Atira Women’s Resources Society and BC Housing have opened 38 treatment beds for women, a new women-only safe injection site is now open, and a provincial Mobile Medical Unit has been set up at 58 West Hastings Street. Last month, the City of Vancouver delivered formal apology for its historical discrimination against the Chinese community. Watch and Listen to the fully bilingual (English and Cantonese) special council meeting held in Chinatown, including the apology text read by community readers. Read the bilingual apology. Tuition-Free Adult Basic education and English as a Second Language has been re- established, after years of lobbying. Vancouver has been backing events and discussions in relation to the truth and reconciliation commission, including continuing the Walk for Reconciliation and gathering and sharing culture at the reconciliation expo, in September 2017, which ended in Strathcona Park. As of September 2017, the BC government has increased welfare rates and disability assistance by $100 a month- this is a much needed raise, as the price of living in Vancouver continues to rise. This year, Vancouver and B.C have continued to hear recommendations to the planned Equitable City Framework (Poverty Reduction Plan), and are preparing to roll out a poverty reduction strategy soon. There has been plans among Roundtable members to undertake financial literacy programs for those who will receive Canadian Government cash settlements which reflect the 60s 'scoop'. EMBERS Eastside Works has opened at 57 East Hastings, an income generating hub located in the heart of the DTES. The city has provided $275,000 in funding to support DTES Adult Literacy Roundtable 5 development, operations and rent in the project’s first year. This project helps those in need connect to local work opportunities, and to access training and support. The Roundtable convened a Technology and Digital Literacy Forum to share with the community the findings of community -based research which Suzanne Smythe and her team have carried out in the past year. WISH and Lucy Alderson have been awarded an ABC Literacy Grant. With resources from the Raise a Reader Family Literacy Fund, WISH, the writers’ exchange and Books, Bags, and Babies has been supported. WISH Drop In center is preparing a Reflective Journal for women based on the discussions they had
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