Our Vision

Community Education is a process whereby learning is used for individual and community betterment.  It is characterized by the involvement of people of all ages, the use of community learning, resources and research to bring about community change and  recognition that people can learn through, with and for each other to create a better world. 

Our Mission

Guided by community education principles, the mission of the Community Education Network is to create a learning culture through a lifelong learning process which promotes personal enrichment and healthy, sustainable communities. 

Our Principles

  • Localization

  • Integrated service delivery

  • Citizen engagement

  • Institutional responsiveness

  • Capacity building

  • Community involvement in schools

 

  • Self-determination

  • Self-help

  • Maximum use of resources

  • Inclusiveness

  • Leadership development

  • Lifelong learning

  • Participatory practices

Six Strategic Directions

  1. Prevention and Early Intervention: A network of Family Resource Centers, Healthy Baby Clubs and Pre-natal Nutrition Programs, Empowering Parenting Programs, an Infant Care Centre at our largest high school and action research related to understanding the early years.

  2. Youth Initiatives: A community Youth Network with alternative learning sites and transitional programs, Communities In Schools bringing together programs and community care in support of young people.

  3. Community Literacy: A community literacy strategy that encompasses inter-generational literacy, early and family literacy programming, summer reading programs, ABE Level I, workplace literacy and facilitation of literacy roundtables.

  4. Career Development & Employment: A career education strategy that incorporates community partnerships, broad career awareness, access to career information, early career planning initiatives and employment assistance services.

  5. Community Leadership: Development of community leadership skills through workshops, roundtables, and other formal and informal skills development opportunities.

  6. Participatory Communications: The methodology of participatory communications is respect for local knowledge and local ways of doing things. Learners and facilitators are peers in a long process of self development and social awareness. The process mobilizes individuals to analyze and plan for their own future and the future of their communities.