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 j89IOPG19336; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <2F59881B0E14B741988211654F5B092A0CD5C4FD@msexch5.mc.utmck.edu> 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: "Wallace, Lorraine S." <LWallace@mc.utmck.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4801] RE: Help re/ Katrina X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 1654 Lines: 59 Hello, I too, Lorraine Wallace, am willing to help. I currently work with women taking classes to "sit" for the GED. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: rrudd To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: 9/9/2005 8:07 AM Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4796] RE: Help re/ Katrina Len and Ceci - Thank you for this call to action. Please count me in as well. This late fall we [NCSALL] will be working with the Louisiana Adult Education Programs on a skills based approach to health literacy. Rima Rudd >===== Original Message From nifl-health@nifl.gov ===== >Dear List-serv members, > >Perhaps there is a way for the special skills of list-serv members to help >the victims of the hurricane who are now in need of relief from a number of >public and private agencies. > >Based on the NALS survey, it is clear that many thousands of victims, who >have limited literacy skills, will have to cope with complex and hastily designed >instructions on how to get aid in many forms. > >Would it make sense to offer our services gratis to the many helping agencies >to assist them to design their emergency instructions and forms so they are >more understandable? (I know that Ceci and I would be willing to give same-day >e-mail turn around to any draft material that is to help with their services.) > >What do you think? Who should be contacted? > >best wishes, > >Len and Ceci Doak Rima E. Rudd, MSPH, Sc.D. Department of Society, Human Development,and Health Harvard School of Public Health 677 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Phone: 617-432-1135 fax: 617-432-3123 Note new listings on our Health Literacy Web Site: www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy
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