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WELCOME TO THE JUSTICE LITERACY
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Introduction
The Justice Literacy Interactive Workshop and Workbook were developed to enrich the awareness and understanding of the challenges that people with limited literacy skills face when they come into contact with the criminal justice system. In addition, the interactive workshop and workbook provide justice and social services practitioners with the opportunity to use a quickly administered, scientifically valid literacy tool that will help them to estimate a client/offender’s ability to read and understand legal documents used within the criminal justice process.
The Justice Literacy Assessment and Awareness Project has produced three different uses for the project’s educational contents; it can be used on-line as an interactive e-learning training, as a downloadable/printed workbook for self-paced individual learning, or the workbook can be used by facilitators who are presenting the Justice Literacy Workshop for the professional development of justice and social services professionals. (We encourage facilitators of the workshop to complete the e-learning training themselves prior to presenting the workshop, and that facilitators provide workshop participants with a current list of literacy providers and resources in their community, for participants’ reference and/or referral. Literacy providers and resources in each Canadian province can be found by clicking on The National Adult Literacy Database, www.NALD.ca .
Each component of the workshop or workbook builds on previous knowledge blocks and ends with an opportunity for individual learners or workshop participants to administer, score and interpret the Justice Literacy Indicator Tool (JLI) and discuss the implications of the test results for their client/offenders in the criminal justice system.
A workshop and/or workbook outline is provided. Multiple choice and/or true and false questions are provided following each learning segment of the workshop or workbook to identify learning transfer. The correct answers to these questions are highlighted in the facilitator’s copy. In the interactive e-learning workbook, answers to the self check questions are corrected by the computer and opportunities for the learner to go back into the text and review the content are provided. Once all the answers are correct, the learner will be able to proceed to the next section. The workbook, if used as a self-paced printed copy, has an answer sheet that within the workbook. A list of discussion questions for facilitators are provided at the end of the workshop to assist in stimulating small or large group discussions on justice/literacy issues. These discussion questions are also provided in the workbooks as ‘Points to Ponder’.
Research indicates that justice and social services practitioners are concerned about ensuring and safeguarding the legal rights of their clients as they go through the justice system. The justice literacy workshop or workbook both provide an overview of justice/literacy issues, an opportunity to practice using an assessment tool (the JLI) for quickly determining a client/offender’s grade level estimate, and a web-site where literacy providers and resources in Canadian communities can be found.
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