About Us

Our Story

Mission

The Learning Centre engages people in community-based learning and literacy development that further enables them to make positive changes for themselves and their communities.

Vision

The Learning Centre Literacy Association is a vibrant, diverse community confidently exploring and using literacy.

Our CORE

Programs include one-on-one tutoring, literacy and numeracy classes, and independent learning with tutor or instructor support. The Association is dedicated to offering programming that corresponds directly to learners’ needs and interests.

The areas served by the Association include neighbourhoods with higher-than-average percentages of adult residents who are functionally illiterate and unable to afford education due to economic hardships.

Given that the large majority of the Association’s adult students are poor and typically restricted from participating in many of society’s educational and economic opportunities, the Association is constantly finding new methods and strategies to engage learners. Programs and services operate on a continuous intake basis.

The Learning Centre Literacy Association respectfully acknowledges that we are situated on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis people.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Paulo Friere

from Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The core purpose of The Learning Centre Literacy Association (TLCLA) is to help adults with the development of literacy and numeracy skills. Most TLCLA participants are either seeking work or hoping to improve their work prospects through attending programs at the Association. Programs include one-on-one tutoring, literacy and numeracy classes, and independent learning with tutor or instructor support. The Association is dedicated to offering programming that corresponds directly to learners’ needs and interests. The areas served by the Association include neighbourhoods with higher-than-average percentages of adult residents who are functionally illiterate and unable to afford education due to economic hardships. Given that the large majority of the Association’s adult students are poor and typically restricted from participating in many of society’s educational and economic opportunities, the Association is constantly finding new methods and strategies to engage learners. Programs and services operate on a continuous intake basis.