The Forteau CAP site plays a key role in the planning and implementation of many community/regional projects. In addition, the CAP Site has partnered for several skills development and internet-application projects.

Women's Voices is a participatory learning program offered by the Forteau CAP Site in partnership with the SmartLabrador Initiative. The idea for the project, to combine storytelling with computer training in a participatory learning environment, came from the local literacy agency, Partners In Learning. The approach of the program is "practical-based" - to learn by doing. Training participants work in small groups, all doing the same thing and all at a similar skill level. The stories provide the participants very specific tasks to do and skills they have to learn to enable the presentation of the story, and accompanying photos, in an MSWord document and/or a PowerPoint presentation.

Radio Free Labrador (RFL), Labrador's own Internet Radio Station was started as a pilot project of SmartLabrador and the Community Access Program to explore new ways to broadcast Labrador content to Labrador communities. The pilot was very successful with broadcast from the Labrador Straits and Port Hope Simpson. For additional details on RFL we invite you to the web site.

Photovoice is an innovative project method which combines photography with community action. Participants were trained to techniques of representing their community or point of view by taking photographs. The Labrador Youth Photovoice project activities engaged youth in conversations and activities around how local youth conceptualize their circumstances. As a form of community consultation, this project solicited the perspectives of those people whose lives are impacted by community issues but who feel they have little to no means to affect the development of change to address these issues.

The Labrador Youth Photovoice project generated dialogue amongst local youth about their own experiences and perceptions of issues and concerns within their own communities. By engaging in the collective process of sharing photos and talking about issues that matter to them, the Photovoice project encouraged participants to strengthen their own voices and to voice their opinions in constructive ways. Participating youth received training that included discussion of ethical and safety issues about taking pictures as well as technical training to learn the basics of digital photography. Through workshop sessions participants selected photos that best represented their personal experiences and artistic capacities which they shared with their peers throughout the project group and with the broader community at the photo exhibition.