Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id KAA23905; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:20:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:20:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <b0.cdf250.25c6f5ca@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Dwyoho@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2162] Preliminary Request for Conference presenters X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 45 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: OR It appears an earlier posting somehow left off my standard signature including my email. With apologies, I post this again, (including a correction of Sue Stableford's name!) Thaks to those who haver already responded. I'll be in touch. I am more than pleased (in fact, a bit flabbergasted!) to announce that the Mid Carolina Health Literacy Network has just been informed of a special $50,000 award from Pfizer for a project designed to "light the fire" of our cause among policy makers and professionals in South Carolina. I want to especially thank a number of listers who have been my mentors, as the Greater Columbia Literacy Council is new to this arena. We are acutely aware of the leadership of Sue Stableford, Jann Keenan, and Helen Osbourne, as well as others (you know who you are!), especially in the AHEC family in North Carolina. This wouldn't have happened without your encouragement. Now we get to work. A number of projects are planned, including the development of a training curriculum and a cadre of trainers to present health literacy concepts whereever we can get through the door. Also planned is a state conference on health literacy, the first attempted here. We have not set the date yet and won't for a while, but most likely it will be in the spring of 2001. I would like to invite potential presenters and keynote speakers to get in touch with me, through my private email, so we can begin to formulate a vision and a budget for such an undertaking. Awareness of techniques of plain language communication and cultural sensitivity to low literacy clients are in their infancy in our state. We will need people who can teach the basics in an inspiring way so that conference participants will leave hungry for more. A prime objective is to insure a strong representation of both literacy and health professionals among the presenters and the participants. In particular, we are searching for public policy makers who are working to incorporate health literacy into the "system". We are also eager to find any consumer leaders, low literacy patients, clients, whatever, who can offer a voice from those we serve. I am departing on Feb. 1 for a week's vacation and will return Feb. 9. I would love to have an in-box full of enthusiastic respondants. Thank you everyone. Deborah W. Yoho Chief Executive Officer Greater Columbia Literacy Council 921 Woodrow Street Columbia, SC 29205 803/765-2555 dwyoho@aol.com
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