Some useful websites of particular interest to coordinators:

Statistics Canada  www.statcan.ca/start.html

B.C. Statistics  www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/

National Adult Literacy Database  www.nald.ca/index.htm

Assessment and Evaluation Strategies in Family Literacy  www.nald.ca/clr/aestrat/contents.htm

ABE Canada  www.abc-canada.org/

Canadian Community Newspapers  www.ccna.ca/

Movement for Canadian Literacy  www.literacy.ca/

IALS www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/gateways/nav/top_nav/program/nls.shtml 

Canadian Council on Social Development  www.ccsd.ca/facts.html

The National Institute for Literacy  www.nifl.gov

Economic arguments for literacy from the NIL in US  www.nifl.gov/

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation  www.ericae.net/

The Early Years Study  www.children.gov.on.ca/mcys/english/resources/publications/beststart-early.asp

Ministry of Advanced Education  www.aved.gov.bc.ca/literacy/

Community Tool Box  ctb.ku.edu/en/

Literacy and Health Information from Health Canada  www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ph-sp/phdd/literacy/index.html

Family Literacy Resource Notebook  http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/famlitnotebook/toc.html

National Centre for Family Literacy  www.famlit.org/

International Reading Association  www.reading.org/resources/index.html

The Vanier Institute of the Family  www.vifamily.ca

The Canadian Association for Family Resource Programs  www.frp.ca/

Alphabet Soup  http://alphabet-soup.net/

Literacy BC  www2.literacy.bc.ca/

Laubach Literacy of Canada  www.laubach.ca

Centre for Family Literacy  www.famlit.ca

Roots of Empathy  www.rootsofempathy.org

Parent-Child Mother Goose Association  www.nald.ca/mothergooseprogram/

ReadNowBC  www.readnowbc.ca

RiPal BC (Research in Practice in Adult Literacy)  www.ripal.literacy.bc.ca

Early Development Indicator:  www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/resources_reportspubs.htm