Seniors Literacy & Learning Grant Program


The 2012-2013 Call for Proposals in now CLOSED.

The Seniors' Literacy and Learning Grant Program is a literacy initiative funded by the Adult Education Division of the Department of Labour and Advanced Education in partnership with the Department of Seniors.

Program goal is to help seniors to address their basic learning needs. It provides grants of up to $5,000 each towards upgrading programs for seniors.

Seniors Councils, Clubs, and Seniors Organizations are invited to partner with their local community-based adult learning organization and together apply for a grant.

This link provides contact information for Community Learning Organizations for support in developing your proposal. The application submission process is the responsibility of the Community Learning Organization and the coordinators are familiar with the new online application process.

For more information please contact:

Jacqueline Campbell
Community Development Coordinator
Department of Seniors
Email: Jacqueline.Campbell@gov.ns.ca
Phone: 424-6211 or 1-800-670-0065


David Welsh
Adult Education Coordinator
Department of Labour and Advanced Education
Email: WELSHD@gov.ns.ca
Phone: 543-2376 or 1-877-466-7725


For more information and resources for the grant program please visit the below links:

Seniors's Literacy & Learning Grant Program Guidelines:
http://gonssal.ca/LaMPSS/documents/SeniorsLiteracy.pdf
http://gonssal.ca/LaMPSS/documents/AE-SL-ProgramGuidelinesFrok_1.pdf

Contact information for regional Adult Education Coordinators:
http://gonssal.ca/LaMPSS/documents/AECNoCellNumbersFeb2011.pdf

Map and contact information for Community Learning Organizations. Click on your region for details.

http://gonssal.ca/General-Public/index.shtml

The Nova Scotia School for Adult Learning (NSSAL) is part of the Adult Education Division of the Department of Labour and Workforce Development. Created in September 2001, NSSAL coordinates educational programs for adults who want to upgrade their literacy skills and/or earn their high school diploma. The school offers programs at more than 150 sites across the province in partnership with regional school boards, Nova Scotia Community College, Université Sainte-Anne, and community-based learning organizations.



Seniors Literacy Learning Manuals

This PDF document provides background information and statistics about older adults, gives an overview of learning in later life, identifies the barriers to learning, and suggests strategies to overcome them. It also includes a list of the resources in the Enhancing the Basic Learning Skills of Older Nova Scotians. A Resource Kit, and many other resources available to support older adult learning.

A compilation of health literacy lesson plans is now available to be used by literacy tutors and health educators who work with older adult learners.



Previous recipients of the Seniors' Literacy and Learning Grant Program 2011 include:


  • Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton and Cape Breton Council of Senior Citizens and Pensioners.
  • Dartmouth Literacy Network and Lake Loon/Cherry Brook Senior Citizens' Group
  • Community Learning Association North of Smokey
  • Guysborough Adult Learning Association and Shamrock Seniors' Club (Canso).
  • Guysborough Adult Learning Association and Seniors Along the Bay (Larry's River)
  • Inverness County Literacy Council and South West Margaree Seniors and Bayville Seniors' Club
  • Valley Community Learning Association and Scots Bay Seniors
  • Preston Area Learning Skills Society and Saint Thomas United Baptist Church
  • Preston Area Learning Skills Society and East Preston Seniors' Group
  • Guysborough Adult Learning Association and Greenfield Oldsters
  • Antigonish County Adult Learning Association and Club 60 Antigonish


Seniors' Literacy and Learning Partnership Award

The Seniors' Literacy and Learning Partnership Award was created in 2007 to recognize exemplary partnerships between learning networks and seniors' councils or other seniors' organizations in the provision of upgrading programs to older learners in Nova Scotia.


International Literacy Day - Sept 8, 2011
http://gonssal.ca/documents/Award_Recipient_List2011.pdf
http://gonssal.ca/documents/Seniorsliteracyandlearningaward.pdf