Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g3ULx6u06339; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:59:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:59:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <OGEFIEBEJOPELLGJIJHJCECHCDAA.eloebl@visionliteracy.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Ellen Loebl" <eloebl@visionliteracy.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2141] Drug and Alcohol Recovery Resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; Status: O Content-Length: 9318 Lines: 155 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C1F057.4E156310 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vision Literacy, formerly the Reading Program of the Santa Clara County Library, has opened two learning centers in partnership with PlaneTree Health Library www.planetreesanjose.org. The Community Learning Centers offer integrated health library and adult literacy services. The first center opened in May 2001 inside the County hospital in San Jose. The second center opened two weeks ago at Vision Literacy's rural South County literacy center. The Centers offer health information in three languages with information in audio, video, and print format. Staff and volunteers assist patrons in health and medical searches on the Internet. The materials are available in a variety of levels from basic level to advanced medical texts. The substance abuse collection for new readers consists of the titles listed below. We are looking forward to expanding this collection. Learners come to the Center for adult literacy tutoring related to their goals, and frequently those goals include health literacy. The Centers were created to enable library patrons of all levels to have access to health information and to enable adult new readers to get excited about improving literacy skills as they learn about their health. The American Medical Association stated that low literacy skills cost the healthcare industry $73 billion annually in increased medical costs. Adults aren't able to communicate with their healthcare providers, they rely too heavily on emergency rooms, they wait too long for care, and they can't read prescriptions and other instructions from their healthcare providers. The Community Learning Centers help address all of these needs. The Centers attract learners from substance abuse treatment programs. Most counseling staff from these facilities realize that access to information for their clients is a strong factor in whether or not they will succeed in their recovery. Learners can research information on substance abuse or other health needs. We have also been using EFF with learners in residential and outpatient recovery programs since 1998. We have a VERY short-term population and the aim is to have learners see progress quickly before they leave a program. EFF helps people with specific, measurable goals identify progress. They are more likely to return after they leave a program if they can identify progress. At intake, we ask for learners to think about their roles and what they would like to work on. During small group classes learners use the Standards wheel to identify what they have worked on and how the Standards mesh with their roles and purposes for learning. I also like to pick one Standard that seemed particularly important for a particular lesson and then to look at the Components of Performance to delve a little more deeply into how thoroughly they actually used the Standard. I like to use the Purposes as a reflection tool at the end of a lesson. Please see the list below for our resource selection. We will be adding the other resources to our collections that were already mentioned on this discussion list. Thank you for the information. Happy Hour, Thomas Ogren 1990 New Readers Press ISBN 0-88336-218-X Patty's Story, Gilda Berger 1991 Milbrook Press ISBN 0-395-63558-6 Alcohol and Other Drugs 1995 Globe Fearon ISBN 0-835-90763-5 The Next Step: Stop seeing the world through a cloud of smoke 1995 Self-Help Guide for People in Recovery From Alcohol and Other Drugs County of San Diego Dept. of Health Services Tobacco Control Resource Center PO Box 85222 San Diego 92186-5222 (619) 236-2705 Coming Home, Peggy King Anderson 1988 Glen Abbey Books ISBN 0-934125-06-6 Ellen Loebl Assoc. Manager of Curriculum and Instruction Vision Literacy (formerly the Reading Program) 40 N. 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