Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j5FFBBG03379; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:11:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:11:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <42B0444D.6090008@goldfieldaccess.net> 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: Archie Willard <millard@goldfieldaccess.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4747] The 3rd New Readers of Iowa Health and Literacy Conference X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 3460 Lines: 63 The New Readers of Iowa will be having their sixteenth state conference on Saturday, September 10, 2005, from 8:30AM to 4:00 PM in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Four Seasons Hotel near the airport. Our last two conferences have been focused on health literacy. This will be our 3rd health literacy conference. There is no conference fee. Registration information for the conference will appear later. We will be doing cholesterol screening and testing for body mass. There will be a round table discussion about the Ask Me 3 project. We will have a presentation about the new law that will go into effect in 2006 concerning how to access prescription drugs for people who have no drug coverage. People can bring their prescriptions and talk with a pharmacist about them. There will be a presentation about nutrition needs. At the noon luncheon Rima Rudd from Harvard University School of Public Health will be our guest speaker. We are hoping that Christie Vilsack, Iowa First Lady and literacy advocate, will be able to be our opening speaker. <> As a result of our past conferences, we as adult learners have learned how to look at life and to take on its challenges. We have all grown together and become stronger. We have raised the bar on how we live our lives. None of us will become rocket scientists, but our lives have become more productive and we keep growing each year. If education researchers were to measure our reading growth it would be small in their eyes, but we have grown as individuals more than one would think. Educators keep working on new ways to teach adults how to read. Maybe some day there will be a magical way of teaching everyone how to read or maybe someone will develop a pill that would help us to read. That would be great, but I don’t think these things will ever happen in my lifetime. One of the things the New Readers of Iowa have been working on is how to navigate the medical system. If we as new readers can improve the way we access health care we have taken a big step to develop confidence. The medical field has been working on health literacy and patient safety and how they are related. Our experiences as adult learners can help bring understanding to these problems. These conferences are about building partnerships and finding ways to work together. Because the New Readers of Iowa have worked with the Iowa Health System we now have a partnership with them.<> At the end of the day the adult learners will discuss what they learned from last year’s conference and what they learned at this conference. We will see if we want to add to last year’s health literacy statement or make another one. This conference is the only place where people who are the most vulnerable for poor health care come together and have the opportunity to speak out. What we say and do at this conference is important for the rest of society to know. I encourage others outside the state of Iowa to send some of your adult learners to this conference. <> This is an important conference. It should continue year after year. Last year’s conference was attended by 150 from ten different states. We hope this conference continues the process of learning and working together. Anyone who is interested in health literacy is welcome to come to this conference and to learn together with us. Archie Willard Conference Chair -- Archie Willard URL - http://www.readiowa.org/archiew.html
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