Acknowledgments We would first like to acknowledge the members of the initial Adult Education Working Committee members for their work and input on the preliminary environmental scan prepared by Allan Quigley and Budd Hall. Committee members attended the 2005 Health and Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC) consultation in Vancouver, British Columbia. Thanks and appreciation to the original committee and the present members of the AWG for all their help:

• Betina Ali, New Westminster School Division
• Helen Balanoff, NWT Literacy Council
• Wendy DesBrisay, Movement for Canadian Literacy
• Caryn Duncan, Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
• Doris Gillis, St. Francis Xavier University
• Budd Hall, University of Victoria
• Lilian Hill, University of Southern Mississippi
• Shelley Hourston, BC Coalition of People with Disabilities
• Al Lauzon, University of Guelph
• Ian Leighin, Forensic, BC
• Sandi Middleton, Literacy BC
• Bosire Mwebi, St. Francis Xavier University
• Susan Neilson, Toronto Association of Adult Students
• Marina Niks, Institute of Health Promotion Research, UBC and RiPAL-BC
• Ningwakwe/E. Priscilla George, National Indigenous Literacy Association
• Marg Rose, University of Victoria
• Rima Rudd, Harvard University
• Louise Sauvé, Téluq (Télé-university, Montréal, PQ)
• Linda Shohet, Centre for Literacy of Quebec
• Cate Sills, NWT Literacy Council
• Nadine Sookermany, Parkdale Project Read
• David Stott, Capital Families, BC
• Kate Swales, Yukon College
• Kim Thomas, Canadian AIDS Society

We also want to thank and acknowledge the work of Sue Folinsbee and Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier who prepared the present scan, building on the preliminary work as noted above. We hope that this work will be useful to a wide range of audiences. This work was undertaken with support from the Canadian Council on Learning, which bears no responsibility for its content.