This project was a study exploring options for strengthening adult literacy education in the ACT through community partnerships. The aim was to identify strategies for developing partnerships between adult literacy providers and community organisations as a way of bringing about a greater take-up of literacy learning by community organisations' service users.

The project involved:

• reviewing and documenting barriers to access to literacy services for disadvantaged groups;
• exploring the extent to which community organisations could and did promote access to literacy services among their service users;
• developing models of collaboration in service delivery that would improve access to, and take-up of, literacy services; and
• recommending models of service provision that would assist service users to access literacy services.

You can download the project's report:

On the Same Page: Towards Partnerships for Adult Literacy in the ACT.

ACTCOSS received funding under the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEEWR's) 2007 Adult Literacy National Project.