Our Projects

Help us to prioritize learning needs in North Vancouver Island communities. 

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The survey will take 5-8 minutes and has multiple choice questions specific to learning needs for all ages in each community in the Region of Mount Waddington.

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The Survey is open until June 7, 2025.​

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United Way’s food security initiatives provide opportunities for meaningful contributions by donors, citizens and community partners in ways that distinctly serves the needs of our local communities. (2022-2024)

The Mount Waddington Family Literacy Society celebrated Family Literacy Week in 2021 and 2022 by providing Family Literacy Kits to bring fun literacy activities into the home.

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“Our goal is to make family fun and learning accessible, and to support these young readers,” says literacy outreach coordinator Leslie Dyck.

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The kits were customized for each family by ages of the children and contained books, games, puzzles, crafts and more.

In March and April 2018, residents of the Region of Mount Waddington contributed their input on the Learning Needs of their communities. 

These results will help direct future projects and programs supported by the Mount Waddington Family Literacy Society and Literacy Now.

In 2020, 2022 and 2024, we stewarded a Community Workforce Response Grant program to provide 10 students with tuition-free training for the Human Services Certificate – Educational Assistant/community
Support, Indigenous Focus.

Project Description:

The Region of Mount Waddington on North Vancouver Island is one of 10 BC communities chosen to be part of the three-year (2019-2021) Decoda Literacy Solutions’ federally-funded study to better understand the needs of workers who have been displaced from their jobs.

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Facilitated locally by the Mount Waddington Family Literacy Society (MWFLS), Decoda’s Enhancing Displaced Workers’ Literacy and Essential Skills project aims to fill knowledge gaps in Literacy & Essential Skills (LES) support and training, and to provide appropriate and effective programs for future use.

The focus in on workers who are hard to reach or reluctant to access skills training or employment services. Learning needs might include digital literacy, language skills, job search and employment related skills, social skills and financial skills. 

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The project involves outreach teams, focus groups, surveys, interviews, a case study and a beta-test project.

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We created the free Conect4Work: Introduction to computers for job seekers program and offered programs in Port Alice, Port Hardy and Port McNeill. 

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The in-person program started from the basics – turning on a pc, using a mouse, understanding technology vocabulary – and build on their skills over 6 weeks.

Books about the North Vancouver Island/ Mount Waddington region and/or by local authors.