[NIFL-HEALTH:2268] RE: Second try at "Toolbox" Update

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Linda - Was my first submission appropriate? I seem to recall a solicitation and
send something to you, I think, this past January.

Thanks.

Ellen

Ellen Schuster
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-----Original Message-----
From: Linda McIntosh [mailto:lmcintosh@mediaone.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 7:36 PM
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Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2235] Second try at "Toolbox" Update

To all,  I hope this message arrives without showing MIME markings. I got a
quick consultation with a computer expert after the first sending. Sorry to
clutter your mailboxes.

Here's an update and a new invitation to take part in the Health Literacy
Month Toolbox project. As you may remember, the goal of this project is to
provide an on-line resource in which health literacy advocates can exchange
strategies and resources they can use to raise awareness of the need for
understandable health information. We anticipate that advocates  will use
this exchange of information to take action at their local level.

Helen Osborne, I, and several other folks have been hard at work and  we
expect to have the Toolbox "live" in April of 2000. Helen is working with
the web developer to design the web page format, and I have gotten a number
of wonderful submissions. These include: how to get grant funding for health
literacy projects, getting health literacy onto an organization's agenda,
health literacy and the law, and a number of pieces describing health
literacy programs in the US and Canada.

Although the original date for submissions has passed, we're inviting you
again to take part. I'd love to get more submissions that describe actual
health literacy programs, the "best practice" aspects of a program.
Borrowing heavily from Audrey Riffenburgh, I'm offering a few possible topic
suggestions. The idea is to highlight what might have made a project
particularly effective and ground-breaking:
    Developing a needs assessment
    Working with the community to design/implement a health literacy program
    Fostering cooperation between organizations
    Providing cultural/age/language appropriate services
    Fostering an organization's long-term commitment to change
    Establishing a field testing program
    Providing training and coaching for health literacy skills
    Measuring and assessing the effectiveness of a program
    Sharing project models/new materials

The focus should be on offering  practical information to advocates in their
attempts to present the values and outcomes of health literacy projects. The
web site we'll be placing documents on resides at PrenatalEd.com. They gave
us space for 30 documents and we want to make sure that every document will
potentially useful to the targeted audience.

General guidelines for authors
    Use MS/Word for all submissions
    Limit submissions to one page of text (12 font)
    FAQ format is ideal
    Please check your data - use newest statistics available. We volunteer
editors will
       assume your data are current because we don't have resources to
check.
    Include web links if you want - avoid charts/diagrams/pictures
       if they require software that everyone won't have

Contact lmcintosh@mediaone.net with your comments, ideas, and submissions.
Linda

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