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Mission and Goals
Our Mission
Quebec
City Reading Council is a volunteer-based not-for-profit organization.
We promote and support life-long learning through a variety of free
and confidential literacy services available to English-speaking adults in
the Quebec City area.
Our Statement of Beliefs
We believe that
literacy is a universal human right which can give individuals the tools
to more fully participate in the rights, responsibilities, and privileges
of citizenship. We believe
that learners need to be at the centre of all of our activities and
programs. We believe that by
providing a non-threatening and informal learning environment, we can
offer an educational alternative for adults who have been disadvantaged,
under-educated, or marginalized in our society.
Our Objectives
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To recruit adults and youth and teach them to read, write or count using
volunteer tutors
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To train tutors, motivate them,
support them and continually upgrade their skills through in-service workshops
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To sensitize the public to the
problem of illiteracy through publicity and talks with local groups
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To keep abreast of new trends in the
teaching of reading, writing and numeracy
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To work in conjunction with similar projects and organizations in Quebec
and Canada
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To foster Family
Literacy in the home, school and community through appropriate services
and activities
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Staff
and Board
QCRC is comprised
of a small staff and volunteer Board of Directors that oversees all
programs and activities.
Board of Directors
2007
Marilyn
Baxter President
Kirsten
Harris Vice-president
Gill
Ayre Treasurer
Thomasina
Hannan Secretary
Adriana Gupta,
Member-at-Large
Staff:
Cathy Nolan, Executive
Director, Quebec City Reading Council.
Vice-president, Literacy Volunteers Quebec
and
Director, Quebec English Literacy Alliance
Susanne Bergmann,
Project Coordinator,
Quebec City Reading Council
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Membership
Benefits (Join QCRC)
QCRC welcomes new
support from community members and organizations on an ongoing basis.
Members of QCRC
provide assistance in a variety of ways.
For example, members can choose to sit on the Board of Directors,
be volunteer tutors, assist with workshops or other programs, promote
literacy through the local media, and so on.
The possibilities are almost endless.
The benefits to being
a member of QCRC include:
Being part of a strong
community network of dedicated individuals
The daily personal
satisfaction of knowing that you are making a difference in other
people’s lives
Invitations to volunteer
appreciation events throughout the year
Free parking privileges
Reimbursement for QCRC
related travel expenses (bus tickets, taxis, car mileage, etc.)
Join QCRC
today! Call Cathy at 681-1258
or e-mail qcrc@qc.aira.com to find out
more about how you can become part of the QCRC team.
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Publicity
Package
To assist the media
and public with gaining quick access to key information about QCRC and
literacy in general, we have compiled a small publicity package of
printable documents in .PDF format. Please
feel free to print these documents and use them in preparing any publicity
(interviews, articles, etc.) related to QCRC.
In this publicity
package, you will find information such as:
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Our mission, statement of
beliefs, and objectives
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A Brief History of QCRC
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A Summary of Current
Programs
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Fact sheets on Literacy in
Canada
Please click here to
download the QCRC Publicity
Package.
For press releases, please click on the any of the links below:
Latest Press Release
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