Thanks, Everyone, for sharing your thoughts about the Navigating
Healthcare article and your resources about partnerships between adult
education programs and local hospitals/clinics. 

In response to Rebecca's question about partnerships, there is some
guidance on forming these kinds of partnerships in World Education's
"Family Health and Literacy" resource guide. There is a chapter about
forming collaborations between literacy and health agencies, including
information on finding programs to work with, ideas for projects that
can be done collaboratively, and how to prepare health educators and
literacy students to communicate with each other in a meaningful way.

Find this online at:
http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/family/index.htm 

This type of partnership is one of my main interests, so I am pelased
that it has come up, and would love to hear from more people about their
experiences. Please write in with your story if you are invloved in a
collaboration of this type! I would also like to add more of these
stories to the Adult Literacy Education Wiki, which has a growing Health
Literacy topic area.

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Health_Literacy
Click on "Promising Practices" to see what's there so far.

All the best,
Julie

Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org